Psychological support for children and teenagers in North Sydney, helping families navigate anxiety, behavioural challenges, and the pressures of growing up.
Childhood brings with it a lot of challenges that your child may sometimes need help navigating. Our North Shore based child psychologists provide evidence-based treatments to help your child get on with living their best life.
We provide treatment for children and adolescents aged 3 to 17. Our aim is that every child who works with us makes sustainable change in their life and has some fun in the process.
Our professional child psychologists focus on understanding the social and emotional needs of your child. We aim to see things from your child’s perspective and create bespoke treatment plans that meet the family’s goals.
We have a range of assessment tools including screening questionnaires to help get things moving as quickly as possible.
Life can throw a lot at your little ones. The areas we’re really good at helping them manage include:
Our child psychologists have spent years working within the school system and so are perfectly placed to help you liaise with you child’s school around North Sydney to help promote the type of environment where they can thrive!
Our child psychologists are fully trained in several of Australia’s biggest and most well-proven treatment programs including:
No matter where you are in Sydney or Australia we’re able to provide assistance for your child. Our Child Psychologists are trained to be able to provide even the most complex of treatments online. And of course we’re always here in our North Sydney offices for any child that would benefit more from a face-to-face intervention.
Cadence Psychology’s professional child psychologist team charge $260 per session for sessions between 9am-5pm. This is significantly less than the Australian Psychological Society’s recommended rate of $318 per session.
Children with a Mental Health Care Plan from their GP are able to also access a rebate of $98.95 per session for up to 10 sessions per year.
We are also able to process private health insurance rebates on site with our HICAPS system.
The first session is a parent/caregiver only session and will be for 50 minutes and will focus on getting an understanding of why help is needed, your childs strengths and goals and the outcomes you hope to achieve.
Following the initial parent session, sessions may involve a child alone, parents/caregivers alone, or parents/caregivers and children together depending on the nature of the difficulties and the skills that need to be developed. This will be discussed in the first session. Sessions are 50mins in length.
Sometimes it is helpful to make recommendations to the teacher about how best to support a child in the classroom or playground, or it is helpful to gather information from a teacher about what is happening at school. If this is the case for your child, this will be discussed with you first and you will be asked to sign a consent to consult form to give your psychologist permission to speak to the teacher. Cost details for this service are specified in the Fee Information provided at intake.
Reports can be written for a specific purpose such as school recommendations. Cost details for this service are specified in the Fee Information provided at intake.
Note: Cadence Psychology does not provide medico-legal reports or for other court purposes.
Cadence Psychology does not provide conduct formal psychometric assessments for school or other purposes.
For children under age of 16, the parent is technically the client. As such Psychologists will try to communicate the important developments of therapy with parents where it is appropriate.
All personal information disclosed will remain confidential except when:
Ready to help your child or adolescent reach their potential? Then click on the button below to either book your first session directly online, or make an appointment with our Principal Child Psychologist, Elizabeth Giles for a free 10-minute free intake call.
