If you are in immediate danger or thinking about harming yourself, get help now. Visit a nearby emergency service, hospital, or mental health clinic. If you are in crisis, these helplines can help:
Crisis numbers in Australia
- Lifeline 13 11 14: Tel: 13 11 14 | Text: 0477 13 11 14. 24 hours.
- Suicide Call Back Service: Tel: 1300 659 467. 24 hours. For ages 15 and over.
- Beyond Blue support service: Tel: 1300 22 4636. 24 hours.
- 13YARN: Tel: 13 92 76. 24 hours.
- SuicideLine Victoria: Tel: 1300 651 251. 24 hours. For ages 15 and over.
- All crisis lines in Australia
This page lists Female Anxiety Counsellors in Melbourne. 5 in all.
That is 5 of the 7 counsellors listed in Melbourne.
These are practitioners who identify as female on their profile 1. We ask every therapist that question, and they may decline to answer. We do not check the answer, and nothing here is ranked.
This list answers an explicit request for a woman. While many people prefer this, we found no research on whether it changes how the therapy goes.
A client and a practitioner always differ; what matters is what that means to you and how you work with it 2. You can filter the same list by the languages a practitioner works in.
What the counsellors on this page do, and how to choose one
The counsellors listed in Melbourne for anxiety offer talking sessions of about an hour 3. Counselling usually runs weekly, for a set number of sessions.
Assessment, diagnosis and medicine sit outside counselling; ask who provides them where you are 4. Open the profiles below to compare experience, language, fee, and whether they work online. Ask how soon each one can see you.
What a counsellor does, and how counselling differs from psychotherapy
Everyone on this page describes their work as counselling. A counsellor listens and helps you find your own solutions to problems 3.
The training emphasises the conversation itself. Sessions usually stay close to something happening now: a loss, a relationship, work, a decision. That focus is what most often separates counselling from longer psychotherapy.
A counsellor is not a medical doctor and does not prescribe or diagnose. Ask a counsellor what they work with, and for how long.
What this page filters on
These are the only filters: the practitioner's stated Female identity, the specialism recorded as Anxiety and the professional title counsellor.
Fees, insurance and lower-cost options
Do affordable options exist in Melbourne?
Cairnmillar Institute Community Clinic. Phone 1800 391 393. Community Clinic sessions are free. The clinic is open to the public and you do not need a referral. Its locations include Melbourne CBD and Hawthorn.
2 of these counsellors offer a sliding scale.
The Melbourne page answers more questions about therapy there.
What these practitioners record
Who registers therapists in Australia?
Our records name no register for the title counsellor in Australia. See the Australia page for the professions that do carry a register there.
Nearby places and related listings
- Anxiety Counsellors in Melbourne
- Female Anxiety Psychoanalysts in Melbourne
- Female Anxiety Psychologists in Melbourne
- Female Anxiety Psychotherapists in Melbourne
- Female Couples Counsellors in Melbourne
- Female Depression Counsellors in Melbourne
- Female Trauma Counsellors in Melbourne
- Male Psychologists in Melbourne, one filter on the full Melbourne psychologists list
- Melbourne: all therapists listed (113)
- Couples counselling in Melbourne
References
[1] TherapyRoute's own records.
[2] Integrative Systemic Therapy in Practice, p. 120. Client-therapist similarities.
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TherapyRoute is a clinician-led directory that champions independent practitioners who answer to you and their professional ethics. We don't take commissions, sell your data, or assign therapists by algorithm. You browse, compare, and choose.
Vincenzo (Enzo) Sinisi, Clinical Psychologist (HPCSA), Psychoanalyst (IPA/SAPA), Group Analyst (IGA)