Our Services

As part of their role Nurse Practitioners are endorsed / authorised to provided diagnoses (depressive disorders, anxiety disorders, bipolar affective disorders, schizophrenia spectrum disorders, psychosis, stress disorders, trauma disorders, personality disorders etc). Psych Fit Health Nurse Practitioners take a longitudinal and holistic approach to mental health diagnosis.

Understanding your mood / behaviours / cognitions and how these can impact on how you interact with the world around you is a key part of improved mental health. Understanding any diagnosis you have been given and any medication you are taking / advised to take is essential to empowering you towards improved mental health.

Counselling (also known as psychotherapy / talk therapy) is a face to face / telehealth process between you and your Nurse Practitioner. Counselling assists you to explore and manage various personal issues, emotional difficulties, and life challenges. It is a confidential and non- judgmental process that aims to help you clarify issues, explore options, develop strategies, and increase self-awareness to resolve problems positively. Counselling is often a short-term treatment focused on a specific problem, but it can also address broader emotional issues and relationship problems.

Psych Fit Health’s Nurse Practitioners have advanced skills in mental health assessment. Assessment is the start of your journey to recovery. Mental health assessment allows you and your Nurse Practitioner to gain an understanding of the issues past and present that are impacting your health and risks / issues that need to be addressed as part of your treatment plan.

Psych Fit Health Nurse Practitioners specialise in acute care partnership- support and follow up mental health services for people who have crossed paths with acute services such as public and private mental health units / teams (emergency and admissions) or forensic services (legal/custodial).

Mental illness (depression, anxiety, bipolar disorder, psychosis etc) can impact people for varying lengths of time – some people may be impacted by a single episode and recover fully whilst others may be impacted life long by an episodical illness. Psych Fit Health Nurse Practitioners assist you to manage your illness holistically – counselling, medication, metabolic, physical health, risk management, psychoeducation and family support.

Unfortunately a common side effect of medication and behaviours associated with mental disorder can often be detrimental to your metabolic health (the body’s systems that manage blood sugar, blood pressure, cholesterol, and fat storage). Increasing your risk for conditions such as diabetes (type 2. Non-insulin dependent), heart disease, weight gain and insulin resistance. Nurse Practitioners have specialist training in holistic health management so although your primary reason for engagement with us may be a mental health problem we have advanced knowledge of the whole body and its systems.

Nurse Practitioners are educated, trained and authorised to manage your medication needs commencement, reviews, repeat scripts, deprescribing, dose adjustment and side effect /adverse reaction management.