Telephone and online video counselling sessions now available​
The stress from current events can challenge our resilience, our relationships, can affect children's behaviour and can make us more susceptible to depression, anxiety and trauma.
​Please call me on 0429 190 210 to discuss your situation and to find a way that you can access this service


​Due to public health concerns I am only meeting with clients remotely via Telehealth (vid conference) or telephone.

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CHANGES TO MEDICARE
The most current changes to Medicare services can be found here

MEDICARE UPDATE 9/10/2020 - 
https://www.health.gov.au/news/health-alerts/novel-coronavirus-2019-ncov-health-alert/ongoing-support-during-coronavirus-covid-19/looking-after-your-mental-health-during-coronavirus-covid-19-restrictions#mental-health-support

From 9 October 2020, the Australian Government will make available 10 additional Medicare subsidised psychological therapy sessions each calendar year. These extra sessions are for people experiencing severe or enduring mental health impacts from the COVID-19 pandemic, and the measures needed to contain it.

To access the additional sessions under the Better Access to Psychiatrists, Psychologists and General Practitioners through the Medicare Benefits Schedule (Better Access) initiative, you must:
  • have a Mental Health treatment plan;
  • have used the initial 10 individual Better Access sessions in the calendar year you sought a referral; and
  • receive a referral for the additional 10 sessions from your reviewing GP, psychiatrist or paediatrician (reviewing practitioner).
You will need to see your GP, psychiatrist or paediatrician (reviewing practitioner). Your practitioner can review your Mental Health Treatment plan or use another consultation item to refer you for the additional sessions.
Your practitioner will decide how many sessions you can receive in your referral. You are able to access up to 10 additional sessions each calendar year from 9 October 2020 until 30 June 2022. This is a total of up to 20 individual sessions each calendar year. If you do not use all 10 additional sessions in the calendar year you received the referral, unused sessions will carry over to the new calendar year. If they carry over to a new calendar year, you can use them without a new referral.

If you would like to discuss these changes and would like to arrange a phone or video session please call me to discuss your situation on 0429 190 210

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Steve Marriott provides counselling and psychotherapy services to individuals, couples, families, children and adolescents who live in the Byron Shire and Northern Rivers region of Northern NSW.  

Steve is an Accredited Mental Health Social Worker, a clinical member and accredited supervisor of the Australian Association of Family Therapy (AAFT), and has Master’s qualifications in Social Work and Couple & Family Therapy. Steve has over 18 years of clinical and group work experience.

Steve provides services under the Medicare 'Better Access' program, NSW Department of Justice (Victims of Crime), Department of Veterans' Affairs (Open Arms), is a registered NDIS provider, and Employee Assistance Program (EAP) counselling.

​He also offers professional supervision and training to health professionals, and is an editorial board member of the Australian & New Zealand Journal of Family Therapy.


RELATIONSHIP HEALTH IS FUNDAMENTAL TO OUR WELL-BEING,
​AND THOSE WE LOVE MOST ....


We are all embedded in relationships, the relationship to oneself, partner, children, friends, extended family, community, society, humanity and the natural world. The greatest joys and sorrows in life are experienced in relationships. 

How we give, receive and perceive love, and many of the ways we have learnt to "do" relationships have developed in our most significant relationships from the time we were born. Many personal strengths and challenges are influenced by our relationships. Empathy, love, generosity and the freedom to openly express ourselves are fostered in relationship. Shame, fear, unworthiness, trauma, depression, anxiety, to name a few, all have their roots in painful relationship experiences.

We all carry some pain and hurt with us through life and if we are unaware of its influence, it will impact on our own wellbeing and relationships. Challenges in our significant relationships with family, partners and children can develop into behavioural and emotional patterns that can leave us (and them) feeling totally stuck, isolated and distressed. Over time this can lead to the breakdown of relationships, mental health and behavioural issues in ourselves and our children. 

Seeking out professional help early, before these relationship habits and patterns become entrenched, can interrupt repetitive cycles, shine a light on underlying dynamics, repair relationships, improve communication and restore love, connection and intimacy.   

For over 18 years I have been supporting individuals and their loved ones to develop greater personal wellbeing, deeper intimacy with themselves and in their relationships, helping parents and their children/ adolescents repair past hurts and resume a loving relationship.   

Thank you for visiting my website and I invite you to have a look around and hopefully you will get a sense of who I am, how I understand health and healing and how I may be able to assist you and the ones you love.


Steve Marriott provides counselling and psychotherapy services to individuals, couples, families, children and adolescents who live in the Northern Rivers of NSW, or online.