INFORMATION FOR REFERRERS — GPs, PSYCHIATRISTS and OTHERS
Overview
Isabella Lay is an AHPRA-registered clinical psychologist providing individual telehealth psychology to adults Australia-wide, including rural and regional patients, with in-person availability in Melbourne.
Referrals suit adults presenting with:
Emotional dysregulation and intensity, including post-ADHD-diagnosis presentations
Relationship and attachment-related difficulties, including repeating relational patterns
People-pleasing, boundary difficulties, and over-responsibility
Shame, rejection sensitivity, and low self-worth
Burnout, overcontrol, and chronic over-functioning
Stress-related presentations where emotional and relational patterns underlie the presenting symptoms (sleep, anger, somatic complaints)
Therapy is grounded in CBT, DBT, ACT and attachment-informed approaches.
Not suited to this service: presentations requiring crisis or acute risk management, active eating disorders requiring specialist treatment, or patients requiring in-person care outside Melbourne.
Referrers are welcome to email a query before referring — always happy to think a referral through with you.
Referral Process:
1. Mental Health Care Plan (or psychiatrist referral letter)
2. Send to admin@isabellalaypsychology.com.au
3. Patients are contacted within 1-2 business days
Communication:
Referrers receive written correspondence at intake and at plan review, and are contacted directly if concerns arise during treatment.
Fees & Medicare:
Adults-$290 per session before 5pm and $300 from 5pm AEST/AEDT.
Medicare rebates apply for eligible patients under a Mental Health Care Plan at the clinical psychologist rate; current rebate amounts confirmed on enquiry.
Current availability:
Monday and Tuesday via Telehealth, 10am-9pm AEST/AEDT
0421 459 566 · admin@isabellalaypsychology.com.au