Tools
These tools help with the practical side of choosing therapy. The guide helps you work out whether therapy might help and what kind might suit you. The others compare the therapies side by side, estimate costs and rebates, help you choose questions to ask a therapist, turn words for how you've been feeling into a picture, and explain the jargon. Nothing you enter is stored.
- The guideAnswer a few questions and see which kinds of therapy, pages and next steps fit what you describe. Takes around 2 minutes.
- Compare the therapiesA side-by-side look at the therapies on this site: how each one works, how structured and how long it tends to be, what the evidence says, and how easy it is to find in Australia.
- Cost and rebate estimatorWhat you'd pay across a year, session by session, with Medicare rebates and the Safety Net.
- Questions to ask a therapistQuestions to ask before you book and in your first session, sorted by when they're useful, that you can pick from and download.
- The word mapperChoose words for how you've been feeling and make a picture you can take to a GP or a first appointment.
- Therapy jargon decoderPlain meanings for the words you'll come across.