Darren Rose
Registered Psychologist
Ages 7+Video and phone
Works with children (7+), adolescents, adults, couples and families on anxiety, depression, OCD, ADHD, autism support, trauma and parenting, and offers ADHD assessments.
Couples & family counselling
Online couples and family counselling.
Online couples counselling gives you both a calm, neutral space to understand what is happening between you and to work on it together, from wherever you are. Every relationship goes through hard patches, and seeking support is a sign of investment, not failure. At AusFive, you and your partner can see a registered psychologist by secure video, with no referral needed to begin.
When couples counselling helps.
Couples come to us to work on communication and recurring conflict, connection and intimacy that has faded, trust and repair after a difficult period, navigating a big change together such as parenthood or relocation, and decisions about the future. You do not need to be in crisis to benefit, and many couples come simply to understand each other better and to get back on the same team.
- Communication and recurring conflict
- Connection and intimacy that has faded
- Trust and repair after a difficult period
- Navigating a big change together
- Decisions about the future
- Getting back on the same team
How online couples counselling works.
Your psychologist helps you both slow down the difficult conversations, understand each other’s perspective, and build practical ways of relating that work for the two of you. The work is balanced and even-handed, so both partners feel heard, and it is paced to suit you. Sessions are held over secure video, which many couples find easier to arrange around work and family than travelling to an appointment together.
Slow down the difficult conversations
Balanced and even-handed, so both partners feel heard
Practical ways of relating that work for the two of you
Family sessions.
Family sessions bring family members together, such as a parent and a teenager, to work on communication, conflict and change at home. Your psychologist will talk through who should attend and how sessions will run before you begin. Family sessions that include a child under 13 are with Darren Rose, who sees children from age 7.
What to expect in your sessions.
Your first session is about understanding the relationship, what each of you would like to be different, and what you want to work towards together. From there you and your psychologist shape the work, usually in sessions by secure video with both partners present.
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Choose your psychologist
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Book online
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Meet by video
Fees and funding.
Couples and family sessions are 60 minutes and $280, on a private basis. Medicare rebates apply to individual sessions only, so a rebate is not available for couples or family sessions, and no referral is needed.
- Couples & family session
- $280
- Medicare rebate
- Not available
- Funding
- Private
Figures current as at 1 July 2026.
Common questions about couples counselling.
Yes, and many couples prefer it, since you can both join from home without coordinating travel.
No. Medicare rebates apply to individual sessions under a mental health treatment plan, not to couples sessions, so couples counselling is private.
Usually yes, since the work is about the relationship, though your psychologist will talk through what suits your situation.
The people you would be working with.
You will be working with a real person, matched to suit what you are going through.
Terese Sullivan
Registered PsychologistAges 13+Video and phoneWorks with adolescents (13+), adults, couples and families on anxiety, stress, trauma, grief, adjustment, work-related concerns and disability support.
Ready when you are.
Whenever you feel ready, we are here. Book online in a few minutes, or give us a call and we will help you find a time and the right psychologist for you.
Call 0474 654 209 · Appointment times available this week