Referral goal
The therapeutic concern, the change being sought and why individual psychology is the requested service.
Child protection and funded youth referrals
Clear therapeutic roles in complex care systems.
Axis accepts funded referrals for children and young people when individual therapy is the main task, with approvals, consent, care-team roles and reporting expectations clearly documented.
Referral information
What Axis needs to understand before therapy begins.
A clear referral protects the young person, the therapeutic relationship and the professionals involved. It also reduces avoidable delays once the referral information is received.
Authority and consent
Who can consent, relevant guardianship or care arrangements, and who is authorised to receive information.
Funding approval
Approved sessions, rates, invoicing details, report expectations and any relevant end date.
Care team context
Current carers, family contact, school, case manager, other clinicians and the practical plan for collaboration.
Risk and stability
Known safety concerns, current supports, crisis arrangements and whether another level of care is required.
Role boundaries
Whether the request is for treating therapy, consultation, a factual summary or another distinct professional task.
Treating role
Therapy is not an independent court assessment.
Brent may communicate with authorised stakeholders and provide factual treatment information where clinically appropriate. The purpose, audience, consent, time and fee are clarified before any report is agreed.
Requests for parenting-capacity assessment, forensic opinion or expert evidence require a different role and may need a separate practitioner.
Common questions
Consent, collaboration and reports.
Can Axis provide therapy and a parenting-capacity or forensic assessment in the same matter?
These are different professional roles and should not be blurred. A treating relationship does not automatically support an independent assessment or court opinion.
Will parents, carers or the school be involved?
They may be where clinically useful, appropriately authorised and consistent with the young person’s age, consent or assent, privacy and treatment goals.
How should the referral be sent?
Email the referral and relevant supporting documents to info@axispsych.com.au. Include consent or authority, funding, care-team and risk information. Use your organisation's secure email system where available and do not send urgent or crisis information by email.
Professional referral
Email the referral and relevant case information.
Provide the young person’s age, referral goal, funding source, authority and consent, care arrangements, relevant risk information and your contact details.
Email a funded youth referral