GV Developmental Clinic in Shepparton, Victoria | Medical and health

GV Developmental Clinic

Locality: Shepparton, Victoria

Phone: +61 3 5858 1757

Address: 636B Wyndham St 3630 Shepparton, VIC, Australia

Website: http://www.gvdevelopmentalclinic.com.au/

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24.01.2022 Highly recommended training for anyone who works with parents, infants and children.

19.01.2022 Welcome Sanjana Raj (she/her) Having lived in the Netherlands, South Africa, Malaysia, India and Uganda, Sanjana is excited to call Shepparton and Australia her home, and we welcome her warmly as part of our team. With a one-year Master's Degree from Ultrecht University, Netherlands, Sanjana is now a provisional psychologist undertaking her 5+1 internship pathway to general registration in Australia. Sanjana is working under the supervision of Rachael Willis, Clinical Psycho...logist, at Pure Empowerment, and Susan Galambos Colmer, Counselling Psychologist, at GVDC. Previously, Sanjana worked as a research assistant with a cross-cultural psychologist and interned at a Parkinson’s Centre for Wellbeing. These experiences led her to appreciate diversity across the lifespan, honed in her keen awareness of how culture and background differences can interact with mental health, and helped develop her interest in autism, depression, anxiety, trauma, and the mental health of older adults. Sanjana’s goal in therapy is to provide a non-judgmental space where clients can feel comfortable and cared for. She aims to acknowledge and affirm clients’ neurodiversity and unique background differences, and she strives to deliver evidence-based therapy with a warm, down-to-earth and mindful therapeutic style. Sanjana is delighted to be a part of the GVDC team, whose values she identifies closely with. In her free time, Sanjana is an avid reader and enjoys yoga, playing board games, dancing and spending time with family. Welcome, Sanjana!

13.01.2022 Good evening! Here's hoping that you're doing OK during this first night of the current lockdown. We are in the process of reviewing our COVID Safe Plan and this is a kind reminder for when we return to our clinic next week. If you are unable to or do not wish to wear a facemask, please call our clinic well in advance, so we can make arrangements for telehealth video consultations.... Facemasks do not hinder your ability to breathe - your blood oxygen levels remain the same. You may of course be sensitive to or intolerant of facemasks for sensory or other reasons and/or you may have an exemption from having to wear a mask. If, for any reason, you do not wish to wear a facemask inside our clinic building, please let us know in advance, so we can make alternative arrangements for you, such as telehealth video consultations where appropriate. Why? Our building, like most buildings with limited ventilation, is effectively one shared airspace. We have vulnerable clinicians working in the building and our clinicians themselves have vulnerable older parents and family members we need to protect. It is our OH&S responsibility to protect our staff from potential close contact: clinicians cannot be expected to spend 45+ minutes in a closed space with an adult person whose COVID-status is unknown [because we do not yet have access to rapid COVID tests] and who is not wearing a facemask. We would like to avoid the potential confusion, disappointment and inconvenience that might result from arriving for an appointment and expecting to be seen without a facemask when this is simply not possible under our COVID Safe Plan which is designed to protect every single person in the building, clients, clinicians, and staff alike. If you have any questions about our COVID Safe Plan, please look on our website, call us during business hours or email us. Thank you for your understanding and for your kind cooperation. https://fb.watch/3DqRQlIPDq/

05.01.2022 Thank you, Betty. Medicare rebates are long overdue for a significant increase and $150 is a good start, for ALL psychology services. Medicare should not have higher scheduled fees and higher rebates for services provided by clinical psychologists only. This discriminates against and disadvantages the clients of the majority of psychologists in clinical practice who are fully qualified and equally competent to deliver the same therapies. Medicare's Better Access is a very i...mportant component of Australia's mental health services and it needs to be affordable and accessible by people, regardless of where they live or what their income-levels may be. There's a limit to how low service providers without additional government funding can set their fees and for how long they can minimise them, before service provision becomes unsustainable. Clinics cannot run without physical and digital infrastructure, nor without human resources. The recommended professional fees in Aistralia are over $200/hr for all the allied heath professions while the corresponding Medicare rebates are as low as $78 and $87. These low rebates are not viable without additional government funding, short of which, either consumers are required to pay the balance, in the form of gap payments, and/or service providers are required to minimise their fees so that the gaps are not so high that they become unaffordable by most people who need these services. With insufficient government funding for mental health services, both consumers and service providers pay, privately, for these services to exist. See more

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