Mental Health and Wellbeing

We have produced a series of fact sheets to help explain the counselling and mental health supports available locally.  Click on each link to view or download:

  1. Mental health and wellbeing of LGBTIQA+ people: Statistics
  2. How to access Medicare subsidised mental health counselling
  3. How to access mental health counselling at Sunbury and Cobaw Community Health
  4. How to access mental health counselling and peer support at a Mental Health and Wellbeing Local

Below are various health and wellbeing organisations and support groups in the region.

Alice’s Garage

Ballarat Community Health

  • Trans and gender diverse clinic coming soon
  • Psychology and counselling

Bendigo Community Health

  • Psychology and counselling
  • Sexual health clinic

Beyond Blue

Dhelkaya Health

  • LGBTIQA+ health and wellbeing program
  • Rainbow walking group
  • Psychology and counselling
  • Diabetes education
  • Housing
  • Family services
  • Physiotherapy

Central Highlands Rural Health

  • Rainbow tick accredited (Clunes Health, Creswick Health, Daylesford Health and Trentham Health)
  • Psychology

Headspace Ballarat

  • ZAQUE LGBTIQA+ support group
  • Mental health
  • Sexual health
  • Drug and alcohol support

Headspace Bendigo

  • Weekly diversity group
  • Mental health
  • Sexual health
  • Drug and alcohol support

Lifeline – 13 11 14

Macedon Ranges Council Youth Unit

  • Youth Engage Program
  • Live4Life

National LGBTIQ Health Alliance

Rainbow Health Victoria

Safe Steps – 1800 015 188

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Thorne Harbour

  • PRONTO! HIV testing
  • Community Hub
  • Counselling
  • Drug and alcohol support

Ballarat Transgender Peer Support Group – contact Jayne Wilson: 0484 308 542

PERK (Parents Empowering Rainbow Kids)

Qlife

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Thorne Harbour Country

Brook Street Medical Centre

14 Brooke Street, Woodend

(03) 5427 1002

Campaspe Family Practice

7-25 Caroline Chisholm Dr, Kyneton

(03) 5422 2877

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Kyneton Medical Centre

9-11 Market St, Kyneton

(03) 5422 1397

  • Dr Karen O’Brien (contact Cobaw CLIP/WayOut staff to facilitate an appointment with Dr O’Brien, as she usually doesn’t take new patients)
  • Dr Annamarie Perlesz
  • Dr Dilly Rajapaksa

Gisborne Medical

16 Brantome Street, Gisborne

(03) 5428 3355

  • Dr Carlie Di Camillo
  • Dr Tanya Duke
  • Dr Tim Phillips

Neal Street Medical

5 Neal Street, Gisborne

(03) 5483 3333

  • All GPs including Dr Ben Crowther

Ranges Medical

182 Station Road, New Gisborne

(03) 8373 5420

  • Dr Anne Peterson
  • Dr Frances Squires
  • Dr Susi Fox (limited capacity to take on new patients)

Springs Medical Centre

89B Piper Street Kyneton

(03) 5422 1298

22 Victoria St Trentham

(03) 5424 1602

  • Dr Fortunato Mazzei

10 Hospital Street Daylesford

(03) 5348 2227

  • Dr Samantha Axford
  • Dr Holly Lewis
  • Dr Fortunato Mazzei

Macedon Ranges Shire Council Maternal and Child Health

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