Psychology sessions are typically of one hour duration - fifty minutes face-to-face with your psychologist (who uses the remaining ten minutes for administration such as casenotes and filing). The standard fee for a fifty-minute session is $190. The Medicare rebate (if you have a referral from a GP) is $87.45, leaving an out-of-pocket gap fee of $102.55. In cases of unemployment or significant financial hardship, a reduced gap fee may be considered - please discuss with your psychologist.  Longer sessions are often preferred by some clients and are billed pro-rata at $190 per hour.  A session that is pre-booked as an hour and a half for example (seventy-five minutes face-to-face) would be billed as $285.  Please discuss this preference with your psychologist and please note that Medicare will rebate only one session payment of $87.45 per session per day, regardless of gap fee paid.  Most private health insurance funds provide rebates as well for psychological services, depending on your level of cover. Please check with your fund. Please note that the Australian Psychological Society (one of the peak bodies for practising psychologists) recommends a fee of $254 per hour, indexed annually - see fee poster below. However, Ripple Psychology holds a fundamental belief in equity and accessibility, and is committed to keeping its fees reasonable and substantially more affordable than the national standard fee recommended by the APS. The standard fee at Ripple Psychology ($190) is substantially less than the recommended fee of $254.  Please note that in some cases the recommended fee of $254 will be charged.  These exceptions include report writing, family or criminal court work, and MHCP sessions where the client has reached the Medicare Safety Net (in which case Medicare will cover 80% of the gap, leaving an out-of-pocket expense of less than $50 for most clients).

Payments and charges