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