Mental Health Support

At Health and Hope Hub, we provide compassionate, personalised care that is trauma-informed and neuro-affirming, creating a safe space for recovery and growth.

Penny McKay, an endorsed Mental Health Occupational Therapist, offers individual sessions providing evidence-based psychological therapies. Therapy is tailored to each client’s needs to build skills, reconnect with what matters, and move forward in recovery.

We work with various presentations, including but not limited to, Depression, Anxiety, Bipolar disorder, cPTSD, ADHD, Autism, Stress, Grief, and eating disorders.

Approaches include:

  • Dialectical Behavioural therapy (DBT)

  • Compassion Focused Therapy (CFT)

  • Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT)

  • Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)

  • Mindfulness

  • Sensory Modulation

  • CBT for eating disorders, including ARFID

Our services are for adults 18 and older.

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Psychological Therapies

We offer telehealth psychological therapy sessions, with possible Medicare rebates through your GP’s mental health care plan.

We are trained in CBT, DBT, ACT, CFT, mindfulness, and sensory modulation.

We support you to build distress tolerance, self-compassion, and to identify your values to live authentically.

Additionally, we bring lived experience in adapting to neurodivergent identities and offer support for neurodivergent clients facing challenges such as executive functioning difficulties.

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Healthy Habits & Routine

Health and Hope Hub is dedicated to supporting you in developing healthy coping strategies and habits aligned with your values, helping you engage in activities that enhance your mental health and integrating them into your daily routine. This may include mindfulness practice, good sleep hygiene, exercise, creative expression and other occupations that bring you a sense of purpose.

Together, we build new habits gradually, making change feel achievable and lasting. We support you in balancing responsibilities, creating routines that promote wellbeing, and planning a daily rhythm that works for you.

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Eating Disorder Treatment

We offer evidence-based treatments for women experiencing Atypical Anorexia, Bulimia Nervosa, Binge Eating Disorder, OSFED, and ARFID. Our therapeutic approaches include CBT-E, SSCM, and CBT-AR, incorporating recovery support through developing distress tolerance skills and using sensory modulation.

You may be eligible for Medicare rebates by using an eating disorder care plan from your GP. Ongoing medical monitoring through your GP is required during treatment and you need to be medically stable. Sessions are available via telehealth or in person, either at your home or a preferred community location.