Mental Health Clinical Services – Coast & Country Primary Care

What is Mental Health Clinical Services?

Mental Health Clinical Services improves your 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.

If you have any questions about the referral process please contact the PRIMA team on 02 4365 2294.

About Mental Health Clinical Services

Mental Health clinical services connects people who are financially disadvantages access the psychological supports that they need.

Mental health referrals that are made to the access and triage service, PRIMA, are eligible to be connected with mental health clinical services.

We have referral pathways to experienced clinicians that are based across the central coast and they provide mental health clinical services to the individual in need.

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Who is Eligible?

This service is for people who have been referred through PRIMA and assessed as eligible for a service.

The service supports the following priority population groups:

People living in Residential Aged Care Facilities
Children under 12 years of age
Women with perinatal depression
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people
People of Cultural and Linguistically Diverse backgrounds
People who have suicidal ideation, have self- harmed or attempted suicide and can be supported in the community
People who have been assessed as requiring psychological therapies (Level 3) or clinical care coordination (Level 4)

How to Refer

Referrals must be made through PRIMA, the Access and Referral Service. 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.