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 increasing public health concerns we have decided to start meeting with clients remotely via phone or zoom (vid conference) and not to have face to face sessions.

These are drastic measures to take, as the far reaching impacts of this pandemic on countries, economies, businesses, communities and individuals is unprecedented.
  
Just to give you a sense of the traffic through our clinic on a busy day, between the two of us on a busy day we could have approximately 20 people using the bathroom and waiting room throughout the day.
About 25% of my caseload are people over 60 years of age, and next week within a 48 hour period I have clients who have been in hospital, work in hospitals, clients whose health is compromised, children and an elderly couple over 75 years old.

The new Government recommendations are for social distancing of at least 1.5 metres and no handshaking.
Considering these health related factors, we have decided the most socially responsible thing to do is start working remotely until we "flatten the curve".
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If you have a Mental Health Care Plan, there may be restrictions on rebates doing phone or Telehealth (Video online) consultations, depending on where you live, particularly suburbs around Lismore and Ballina. Suburbs in the Byron Shire remain unchanged. Please call me to discuss this further. 

The Australian Government has unveiled a $2.4 billion health package to protect all Australians, including vulnerable groups such as the elderly, those with chronic conditions and Indigenous communities, from the coronavirus (COVID-19).
As part of this package $100 million will fund a new Medicare service for people in home isolation or quarantine to receive health consultations via the phone or video such as FaceTime or Skype. The telehealth service will help contain the spread of the virus, it will be at no cost to patients and will be available from Friday 13 March. 

This Medicare bulk-billed video-conference consultation and services, can be provided by GPs, specialists, consultant physicians, consultant psychiatrists, nurse practitioners and allied mental health workers for certain vulnerable people.
Vulnerable/isolated patients are those where at least one of the following apply:
  • The person has been diagnosed with COVID-19 virus but who is not a patient of a hospital; or
  • The person has been required to isolate themselves in quarantine in accordance with home isolation guidance issued by (AHPPC); or
  • The person is considered more susceptible to the COVID-19 virus being a person who is:
    - at least 70 years old; or
    - at least 50 years old and is of Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander descent; or
    - is pregnant; or
    - is a parent of a child under 12 months; or
    - is already under treatment for chronic health conditions or is immune compromised. 
If you already have a Mental Health Care Plan, if you believe you meet this criteria 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.