Booking Options
- Email-: jo@playpower.com.au
- Contact / Text 045 123 4455
About Us
Our service
We are a counselling service offering
accessible, inclusive, safe, responsive, effective and supportive professional therapy for adults, youth and Play Therapy for children.
We offer warm, compassionate care for each individual.
We are recovery orientated linked to YOUR goals.
We set out to help you with our well trained counsellors and welcome every individual that reaches out in their time of need
Our Mission
Our mission is to help you or someone you love
move from pain to joy.
We will walk with you, hold you in our professional care, as together we carefully make progress on the bumpy and sometimes lonely road to recovery.
Hang in there.
You do not have to do this alone.
Acknowledgement
We recognise and acknowledge the traditional custodians, the Wathaurong people, of the land on which we gather. We pay our respects to ancestors and Elders, past and present. We remain committed to honouring Australian Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples’ unique cultural and spiritual relationships to the land, waters and seas and their rich contribution to society, and look to learn, share and walk together in all aspects of our lives. We acknowledge that sovereignty was never ceded and support the call for Treaty.
Referrals
- Email - jo@playpower.com.au
- Text is best. Please leave a message on 045 1234 455
- You do not need a referral from a doctor to access our counselling service.
- We do not have waiting lists.
- We will endeavour to contact you back within 2 working days.
- We understand support is often needed NOW. We will do our best to meet with you as soon as possible.
- You can book in for yourself or a family member that has consented to attend.
- If you have been referred by another professional, (e.g. your doctor or teacher) we will ask you to sign a consent form giving us your consent to consult with the person who referred you.
- The information shared between professionals will be confidential, appropriate and relevant to the counselling process.
Counselling Fees
- $95 for 60 min individual therapy session**
- $95 primary and secondary age students**
- $75 Concession (tertiary student, pension, HCC)**
- In school Play Power sessions $95.00* (2024)
- Term payment discount $900 for 10 sessions preferably paid at beginning of term or at the commencement of sessions
- If you are doing it tough financially talk to our principal Jo Kennedy about a plan (she understands how tough it gets. She will discuss payment plans sensitively and discretely as needed)
- $295 for any reports / endorsement letters
- $295 - $ 425 staff PD and Incursions^
^ Costs may vary according to class sizes & staff, time allocated and the distance traveled. For schools it is a minimum 4 hour booking.
**In the unfortunate event of cancellation due to illness or any other reason your counsellor will discuss rescheduling a make-up session.
Payment Policy
- Currently there are no Government Medicare rebates offered for counselling under Mental Health Care Plans.
- We do offer payment plans and concession fees if you are a student, pensioner or hold a HCC. (see payment schedule above)
- Sessions are for 1 hour (55min therapy & 5min admin).
- Play Power ©/Interplay® therapy are a minimum of 2 hours (therapy plus administration tasks and communication etc)
- Face to face or online attract the same fee.
- Sessions are One to One* (* children maybe an exception. Please consult our principal Jo Kennedy to discuss)
- Payment is preferred on the day of the consultation.
- Tap eftpos or cash available
- Paying in advance attracts a discount
Privacy Policy
- The policies mentioned here are available for you to read in detail at any time. Simply ask for a copy.
- As members of ACA we are bound by its Code of Ethics and Privacy Act, that protect your Privacy and Confidentiality. Specifically, this means that - :
Anything you tell your counsellor is strictly confidential and will only be disclosed if necessary under law (i.e. court subpoena) or to protect your life or that of others.
- In consultation with you, we may decide together that another therapist or professional could better serve your specific needs. We will work with you if it is deemed the best option for you.
- The professional relationship that is established is at the centre of your healing therapy. We want therapy to work as much as you do.
- The choice to continue counselling is always in your hands.
Great Ocean Rd Counselling Business details
✅ACA Registered
✅VIT Registered
✅WWC: 0029444A-03
ABN: 29279088544
Account name: GORC
Account number: 162597843
BSB: 633000
Contact Details
P.O. BOX 64 Anglesea 3230
Text: 045 1234 455
Email: jo@playpower.com.au
Meet our Principal Counsellor
Our mission here at Great Ocean Road Counselling is to support people including children, in their healing; to help find some peace, joy, calm and release from pain.
We will walk with you and plan to support you so
you don’t feel you have to do the hard stuff on your own
A welcome from Jo our principal counsellor.
"Hello. I look forward to meeting you. It is my genuine hope that we can help you, when you feel ready. Reaching out is a big step and often a change in direction that can feel strange.
Especially on top of everything else you are dealing with.
Hang in there.
Help and hope is here.
(H.O.P.E Hold On. Pain Ends)
We will walk with you. or your child.
One step at a time.
We want to see ‘you’ and know you want 'to be heard'.
For your peace of mind here's a little bit about my background.
Helping people has been my life's calling being fortunate to know at a very young age what I wanted to do. I hold a deep passion for what I do. As an Specialist teacher I have been working in the Diversity/ Additional / Special needs space for over 30 years. I am a Counsellor and Teacher of the Deaf with qualifications from Australia, USA and England. I have worked in the corporate sector, with children and adults in homes, kindergartens, childcare centres, primary and secondary schools and universities. I run professional development for educators around meeting the varied needs of their students. I have worked on multi-disciplinary teams in the Department of Human Services, Department of Education, Independent and Private schools’ sector, Early Intervention, NDIS and not for profits.
Working closely with teachers, Well-being and Learning Diversity staff in schools and being based at a school using Play Therapy / Interplay is a beautiful growth area that heals children and families. I genuinely love working with children & their families. I stand with them for the long haul.
I also enjoy teaching 'Intro to Auslan' and 'Baby Signing (Auslan)' to all interested education settings and family members. It is such a joy to enhance early communication for all.
Having had my fair share of life's curve balls I come to you with a toolkit of strategies, a genuine interest and compassion about you and your life. I seek to understand your personal needs and how you want to feel different than how you feel now. I hope to help you get to where you want to be, at a pace you feel comfortable with to achieve your goals in counselling. This is also true for all the children I have the pleasure to walk with as they heal.
I look forward to walking with you as you
commence the road back to yourself in the hope
you will feel a shift and
find joy in your life again".
Jo Kennedy - Principal Counsellor
Dip. Counselling., Post Grad HIC., Teacher of Deaf., B.Ed. PE., Dip.T. & Post Grad. Dip. Gifted., Interplay Play Therapy Specialist
Registered Counsellor with the Australian Counsellors Association Member No. 21159