Child and Adolescent Health Service
Family centred, integrative health care that treats mind and body as one
A multidisciplinary team supporting young people and their families, from first assessment through to lasting, generational change. We reject the medical model that separates mental health from physical health — we see them as one.
The PsychSense philosophy
Mental health, physical health, and family wellbeing are not separate concerns — they are fundamentally inseparable.
Childhood health ensures optimal development and prevents adult chronic disease, fostering long-term wellbeing and a positive foundation for future generations. Our integrative approach recognises this. We move beyond the traditional mind–body separation and treat physical and mental health as one interconnected system.
Our holistic approach unites mind, body and community to address the root cause of health issues within a patient’s total environment. By merging traditional clinical excellence with functional and naturopathic medicine, we look past surface behaviours to transform generational health.
Our service offer
Integrated expertise for complex presentations. We build an all-encompassing, wrap-around care system for your child.
Integrative biopsychosocial assessment
Thorough assessment of physical and mental health status, to build a shared formulation of need. We work to understand predisposing, precipitating, perpetuating and protective factors through an integrative lens. This informs the initial client management framework and treatment pathway.
Family-based therapy
Systemic, family-based therapy and parenting support — sometimes together, sometimes with separate parent work, or alongside the young person's individual therapy.
Individual psychological therapy
Evidence-based psychological therapies — including CBT, IPT, psychotherapy and DBT skills — according to individual need, applied alongside the health and lifestyle interventions from your Client Management Framework.
Neurodevelopmental assessments
ADHD, ASD and combined assessments — clinical interview, standardised questionnaires, developmental history, feedback session, and an additional offer of robust post-diagnostic support (optional).
How an integrative assessment works
From your first form to an agreed plan — our four-step process.
Questionnaires & forms
We send a comprehensive client health questionnaire, baseline rating scales and risk assessment forms to complete before your first appointment.
The Client Management Framework
Our integrative team reviews your referral to confirm our service is the right fit. If suitable, they will build your initial health, lifestyle and naturopathic recommendations in a clear client management framework — optimising sleep, nutrition, light environment and inflammation.
Consultation & report
A targeted remote appointment to review your child's progress, gather deeper history and compile a comprehensive written clinical report.
Follow-up & managed care
Following multidisciplinary team consideration, a follow-up appointment agrees the management plan with you — with referrals to our psychologist, therapists or paediatrician, or external signposting, as required.
How a neurodevelopmental assessment works
Our gold-standard diagnostic process, step by step — a thorough four-step framework for absolute clinical safety and diagnostic accuracy across ADHD, ASD and combined assessments.
Questionnaires & forms
Having reviewed your referral to check our service is the right fit, we gather information from multiple settings. With your permission, we seek insights from you and your child's school or nursery through detailed reports and standardised questionnaires.
Consultation & clinical interview
A dedicated remote appointment with you and your child, allowing our clinical specialists to review your primary concerns and gather a detailed history of your child's presentation.
Further assessments & diagnostic tooling
A second remote appointment to obtain a deep, structured developmental history. For Autism (ASD) pathways, this step includes the ADOS (Autism Diagnostic Observation Schedule) assessment.
Outcome appointment, report & further support
A final feedback meeting to review the assessment outcome followed by a comprehensive clinical report. An invitation is then extended to consider our robust on-going post-diagnostic support pathway — uniquely incorporating our integrative health model, carefully adapted for neurodevelopmental conditions.
Meet your multi-disciplinary team
Psychiatrists, psychologists, naturopaths and therapists — working as one.
Our clinicians work collaboratively — never in silos.
When your child or young person sees our psychiatrist for an assessment and then our psychologist or family practitioner, both conversations inform each other in real time. You are the most powerful agent for change — we build the care plan around your family, together.
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The PsychSense Family Fund
Healthy families lead to healthy communities
No amount is too small — every donation goes towards the family fund, so families who are motivated to change but can’t afford private care can still access our support.
Learn about our charitable giving