What Therapy Actually Costs in 2026
By Stacey Black, Clinical Psychologist (AHPRA registered). Ballarat and telehealth across regional Victoria. About Stacey Cost is the most common reason people put off making the first appointment, and it is made worse by how hard the real number is to find. Practices publish a fee, Medicare publishes a rebate, and you are left to…
Choosing a Clinical Supervisor: What Actually Matters
By Stacey Black, Clinical Psychologist (AHPRA registered). Ballarat and telehealth across regional Victoria. About Stacey Written for psychologists rather than clients. Most of us choose our first supervisor on availability, because we need someone and the list is short. It usually works out. But supervision is the main place your practice gets shaped, and it…
Complex Trauma Is Not the Same Thing as PTSD
By Stacey Black, Clinical Psychologist (AHPRA registered). Ballarat and telehealth across regional Victoria. About Stacey People often rule themselves out of trauma treatment because their history does not match the picture they have of trauma. There was no single terrible event. Nothing they could point to and name. Just a long stretch of childhood in…
Emotion Regulation: Why Just Calm Down Never Works
By Stacey Black, Clinical Psychologist (AHPRA registered). Ballarat and telehealth across regional Victoria. About Stacey Nobody in the history of being upset has ever been improved by someone telling them to calm down. There is a reason for that, and it is not just tone. The instruction asks for something the person cannot do at…
For GPs: Writing a Referral That Gets Your Patient Seen
By Stacey Black, Clinical Psychologist (AHPRA registered). Ballarat and telehealth across regional Victoria. About Stacey Every psychologist in this region is triaging. That means the referral letter is not a formality, it is the document your patient is triaged on. A referral with four useful lines will place someone more accurately than a template with…
For GPs: When to Refer to a Clinical Psychologist
By Stacey Black, Clinical Psychologist (AHPRA registered). Ballarat and telehealth across regional Victoria. About Stacey Written for GPs and other referrers in Ballarat and across the Grampians region. In a system where every psychologist has a waitlist, the question is rarely whether to refer. It is who to, and with what expectation. This is intended…
How to Set Up for a Good Telehealth Session
By Stacey Black, Clinical Psychologist (AHPRA registered). Ballarat and telehealth across regional Victoria. About Stacey The difference between a telehealth session that works and one that does not is usually not the therapy. It is the ten minutes of setup beforehand. None of this is complicated, but almost nobody thinks about it until a session…
Does Telehealth Psychology Actually Work?
By Stacey Black, Clinical Psychologist (AHPRA registered). Ballarat and telehealth across regional Victoria. About Stacey It is a fair question and people are often slightly embarrassed to ask it, as though preferring to be in a room with someone is a sign of being behind the times. It is not. Something does feel different about…
The Hardest Decade: Mental Health Between 18 and 25
By Stacey Black, Clinical Psychologist (AHPRA registered). Ballarat and telehealth across regional Victoria. About Stacey There is a strange gap in how we treat this age group. At seventeen a young person is a child, with the concern and scaffolding that attracts. At eighteen they are an adult who is presumed to be sorted. Nothing…
When Your Teenager Will Not Talk to You
By Stacey Black, Clinical Psychologist (AHPRA registered). Ballarat and telehealth across regional Victoria. About Stacey Parents often arrive at my rooms having tried everything they can think of, and having landed on the conclusion that their teenager hates them. That is almost never what is happening. But the silence is real, and it is exhausting,…
The Eating Disorder Management Plan: 40 Sessions Explained
By Stacey Black, Clinical Psychologist (AHPRA registered). Ballarat and telehealth across regional Victoria. About Stacey Most families dealing with an eating disorder for the first time are working from the ten-session figure, because that is the number attached to a standard Mental Health Treatment Plan. Ten sessions is not enough for an eating disorder and…
Getting Eating Disorder Help in Regional Victoria
By Stacey Black, Clinical Psychologist (AHPRA registered). Ballarat and telehealth across regional Victoria. About Stacey Eating disorder treatment is concentrated in Melbourne. That is the plain fact of it, and if you live in Ballarat, Ararat, Horsham or anywhere out through the Wimmera, it shapes what your options look like. It does not mean there…
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Grounded in empathy and collaboration, Stacey aims to empower her clients to better understand themselves, build resilience, and achieve meaningful personal change. Whether addressing specific challenges or exploring deeper emotional concerns, she is committed to helping her clients live more fulfilling lives. Find out more.
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