Counselling
Counsel@CrossCulture offers specialised professional, confidential and affordable counselling services to anyone struggling with life issues and needing support or direction. Consultations are available for:
- Relationships Counselling
- Legal Counselling
- Psychology Services
- Psychiatric Management
Counselling/Psychology Consultation
Is available for individuals, couples or families for the following issues:
- Needing to improve communication and conflict resolution skills
- Poor confidence in relationships
- Struggling to adapt to living in a new culture or community
- Financial and study stress
- Grief and coping with loss
- Difficulty relating to our children
- Marriage breakdown
- Career guidance
- Addictions
- Personal profiling, Temperament Analysis and Personality Inventory assessments
Legal Consultation:
- Immigration law referrals
- Dealing with police and court matters
- Resolving tenancy problems
- Wills & Probate
- Dealing with debt recovery
- Compensating personal injuries
- Resolving employment disputes
- Family law (Children & Property disputes)
- For Mediation and other Alternative Dispute Resolution
Psychiatry Consultation
Is available upon referral from a legally qualified medical practitioner, for the following conditions:
- Panic attacks
- Anxiety and mood disorders
- Depression
- Psychotic disorders
Who Are We?
Dr Roger Chau, MBBS (Melb), FRANZCP has been in full time private practice in Psychiatry since 1986.
Mike Kirkpatrick, BA, LLB, M Div is an experienced lawyer working jointly at a Melbourne city law practice and as an ordained minister of religion at CrossCulture Church of Christ.
Lidia Lae, BSc, Grad Dip Ed, Dip P Psych/Marital & Family Therapy, M Psych, Dip Ed, MAPS has extensive experience in providing Psychology Services including stress and emotional management, trauma and relationship issues and assessment of children’s development.
Dr James Ridgway, PhD, (Psych.Rel.), C.C.A.A.(Clin), PACFA.Reg. is a highly experienced Consulting Psychologist for stress, relationships, addictions, careers, assessments, a past Principal of Kingsley Theological College & Principal of Integra Resources Consultancy.
Esther Tong, B App Sci (Hons), holds a Graduate Certificate in Ministry (Counselling) from Kingsley College (Melb). She and her husband have been married 23 years and they have two teenage children.
Our Fees
Our fees are on a sliding scale according to what people can afford:
| Fee Structure | ||
| General Counselling | Individual | $60 |
| Couples | $70 | |
| Families | $80 | |
| Concession (students, pensioners) | $40 | |
| Late Cancellation | $25 | |
| Legal Counseling | up to $60 per hour | |
| Psychiatric Consultation | Consultations $204.40 and Medicare will refund $204.401 | |
| Psychological Consultation |
$120 per session2 | |
1. Clients must hold a current Medicare card.
2. Medicare rebates may be available for eligible clients with a GP mental health care plan and Private Health Insurance rebates for those with Psychological Services Cover.
Our Mission Statement
...to bring good news to the oppressed... to bind up the brokenhearted, to proclaim liberty for the captives, and release from darkness for the prisoners, to proclaim the year of the Lord's favour and…to comfort all who mourn - Isaiah 61:1-2
Counsel@CrossCulture – a ministry of CrossCulture Church of Christ
Contact Us
Shop 4, 339 Swanston Street
Melbourne , Victoria
Australia 3000
