ACCESSIBLE MENTAL HEALTH SUPPORT
Affordable counselling,
thoughtfully delivered.
$120 per session
No medicare referral required
Melbourne Psychology & Counselling has always been committed to making quality mental health support as accessible as possible for our community.
Our low cost counselling service was created to offer affordable, quality sessions with a counsellor exclusively for current MPC clients. This is designed to complement and extend the psychology work you are already doing here
SESSION FEE
$120
LOCATION
In-person or Telehealth
AVAILABILITY
Thursdays & Saturdays
REFERRAL NEEDED?
No
ABOUT THIS SERVICE
Quality care at an accessible price
The low cost counselling is offered by Nika Cseh, a registered counsellor. Like all clinical work at MPC, it is guided by our values of warmth, clinical excellence, and a commitment to the people we work with.
Nika Cseh
REGISTERED COUNSELLOR
Nika brings warmth, professional training, and a genuine commitment to supporting clients across a range of presentations. She works with individuals experiencing life transitions, relationship difficulties, anxiety, low mood, and everyday stress.
Our low cost counselling service is available exclusively to current clients who are already working with a psychologist at Melbourne Psychology & Counselling.
This is not a standalone service but an addition to your existing psychology treatment, designed to complement and deepen the work you are already doing.
Whether you need continuity of support between appointments, a space to process what's coming up in therapy, or simply more frequent contact during a difficult period, counselling offers a flexible and affordable way to extend the care you are already receiving at MPC.
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Continuity while your psychologist is unavailable
Rather than pausing your progress during a leave period or between appointments, counselling sessions keep you supported and moving forward.
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Freeing your psychology sessions for active treatment
Counselling can hold the space for day-to-day support and reflection, allowing your work with your psychologist to focus on more intensive therapeutic goals.
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Processing between sessions
Therapy can bring up a lot. A counselling session in between psychology appointments provides space to process what's been stirred up, so it doesn't sit unaddressed.
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Increased support without greater cost
For clients who benefit from more frequent contact (particularly during a difficult period), counselling offers a way to increase support without the full cost of additional psychology sessions.
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Practical life support
Psychology sessions are rightly focused on active treatment goals. Counselling can hold the more day-to-day conversations such as navigating a difficult relationship, managing stress, adjusting to change.
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Maintaining gains
As psychology treatment winds down or moves to a maintenance phase, counselling can offer lighter-touch ongoing support to consolidate your progress and stay on track.
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Transition support
For clients waiting to begin with a psychologist, or moving between psychologists, counselling provides continuity of care so there is no gap in support.
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A different therapeutic space
Some clients benefit from having a softer, more relational space running alongside more structured psychological treatment, particularly earlier in their therapeutic journey or where trauma is present.
FOR CURRENT MPC CLIENTS
How counselling can work alongside psychology
UNDERSTANDING YOUR OPTIONS
Counselling and Psychology: Similarities and Differences
Both counsellors and psychologists provide talking therapy and share a commitment to supporting your mental health and wellbeing. At MPC, all our clinicians bring warmth, professional training, and a genuine interest in you as a person. The two services are different in focus and scope and for many clients, they work best together
COUNSELLING
A warm, person-centered approach
Counselling with Nika tends to be more open and exploratory in nature. A session might involve talking through how the week has gone, processing something difficult that came up (in thearpy or in life) finding space to be heard without an agenda.
Counselling is well-suited to:
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Processing emotions, experiences, or events between psychology appointments
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Navigating day-to-day challenges such as relationship stress, work pressure, or life transitions
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Building self-awareness and developing a stronger sense of what you need
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Maintaining momentum and continuity of support when your psychologist is unavailable
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Reflecting on what's come up in your psychology sessions in a more open-ended space
Counselling at MPC is not designed to replace psychological treatment; it is designed to support and sustain it.
PSYCHOLOGY
Assessment, diagnosis and structured treatment
Psychology sessions at MPC tend to be more structured and treatment-focused. Your psychologist will draw on evidence-based approaches (e.g, CBT, ACT, EMDR, ERP) to work directly on your specific mental health goals.
A session might involve:
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Structured therapeutic work targeting a specific condition or presentation
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Learning and practising evidence-based skills and strategies
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Working through trauma, significant anxiety, OCD, eating disorders, or other complex presentations
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Reviewing progress, refining goals, and adjusting your treatment plan
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Active, focused clinical work that requires the depth of a full psychology session