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Mental Health Clinical Services

Service Locations: Central Coast
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What is Mental Health Clinical Services?

The Mental Health Clinical Services improves community access to psychologists, social workers and mental health nurses.

We can provide short term psychological therapies for people experiencing common mental health disorders such as depression and anxiety.

We can also provide longer term support for people that have been diagnosed with a complex and ongoing mental illness.

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For information about changes to service delivery due to COVID-19, please view our COVID-19 Information.

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Benefits

Strong mental health isn’t just the absence of mental health problems, it’s being mentally and emotionally healthy. Good mental health can support:

  • A sense of contentment
  • A joy for living and the ability to laugh and have fun.
  • The ability to deal with stress and bounce back from adversity.
  • A sense of meaning and purpose, in your activities and relationships.
How to Access

Visit your GP for a mental health treatment plan and referral to this service. We will then be in contact with you.

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About Mental Health Clinical Services

Most of the Mental Health Referrals that are made to PRIMA will be eligible to receive Mental Health Clinical Services.

Experienced clinicians provide mental health clinical services to the individual in need. They can also help with referrals to other services where appropriate.

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Who is Eligible?

This program is for people experiencing significant financial hardship and are unable to pay fees required by other Mental Health services.

The program especially supports the following groups of people who have been assessed as requiring psychological therapies (Level 3) or clinical care coordination (Level 4) and also fit within one of the following groups:

  • People living in Residential Aged Care Facilities
  • People who have suicidal ideation, have self- harmed or attempted suicide and can be supported in the community
  • Children under 12 years of age
  • Women with perinatal depression
  • Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people
  • People of Cultural and Linguistically Diverse backgrounds
How to Refer

Referrals must be made through PRIMA, the Access and Referral Service. Referrals are then assessed, triaged and, where appropriate, sent on our Mental Health Clinical Services.

GPs can make a referral through the online portal at any time.

Make a referral

Referrals will be assessed and triaged Monday to Friday. Please call us on 02 4365 2294 if you require a login and password to the referral portal.