body belonging clinic

You diagnose and prescribe. I do the therapy.

Before the assessment, after the diagnosis, with or without medication.

I’m Lauren Lynch, an Accredited Mental Health Social Worker and ANZAED Credentialed Eating Disorder Clinician, working with children, adolescents and adults with ADHD by telehealth across WA. I don’t assess or diagnose ADHD, and I don’t prescribe. Diagnosis, prescribing and medical monitoring stay with you, and you hear back after the first session, at the end of each course of sessions and at completion.

Referrals are open now with the Medicare rebate under Better Access. ADHD Belonging, our bulk billed lane in focused 25 minute sessions, opens in 2027.

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Three points on the ADHD journey.

While they wait for assessment
Support with what is hard right now, such as routines, emotions, sleep, school or work, and eating, plus help preparing for the assessment so the assessing clinician gets a clearer picture. Anxiety, depression and eating disorders often sit alongside ADHD. If you’ve diagnosed one, a Mental Health Treatment Plan and referral means rebated sessions can begin while they wait. No diagnosis yet? They can start privately.
After diagnosis, alongside medication
The Australian ADHD guideline recommends offering cognitive behavioural interventions to adolescents and adults, and parent and family training for children. I provide that alongside your prescribing, and I tell you what I notice about appetite, sleep and mood along the way.
After diagnosis, without medication
For patients who choose not to take medication, can’t tolerate it, or haven’t started yet, therapy carries the work: practical strategies for attention, follow through and emotion regulation, and help making sense of the diagnosis.

Patients preparing for an assessment can also use the assessment preparation guide in the ADHD library.

Who it’s for

  • Children (with a parent or carer), adolescents and adults with diagnosed ADHD or waiting for an ADHD assessment.
  • People for whom eating, appetite or body image is part of the picture: appetite that drops away on stimulants, skipped meals and evening crashes, binge eating, or a very narrow range of foods.
  • Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander, LGBTQIA+ and neurodivergent patients looking for affirming care.

For children under 10, ADHD assessment, diagnosis and medication sit with a paediatrician, psychiatrist or multidisciplinary team, and I can still see the child and family.

This isn’t a crisis service. Patients at acute risk need an urgent pathway before or alongside a referral here.

What we offer

  • Cognitive behavioural strategies for ADHD in line with the AADPA guideline, before assessment and after diagnosis, with parents and carers closely involved for children, alongside ACT and DBT skills for values, emotion regulation and distress tolerance.
  • Eating disorder treatment using CBT‑E and family based treatment (FBT), adapted for ADHD, with parents and carers involved for children and adolescents.
  • An eating assessment before you start a stimulant, if you’re not sure whether eating is a concern, with a letter back to you.
  • Screening for disordered eating at the first session, with a clear pathway to an Eating Disorder Plan where you think it’s indicated.
  • Telehealth sessions (video, with phone as a fallback), paced around ADHD attention and follow through.
  • Standard measures for every client at the start and end of each course of sessions, so your reviews have scores to work with. For eating concerns I use the EDE‑Q and CIA, timed to line up with Eating Disorder Plan reviews.

When ADHD and eating show up together.

Eating disorders are my main area of practice, and I hold the ANZAED credential. People with ADHD are more likely to develop an eating disorder, and stimulants change appetite, so eating often needs its own attention. Treatment focuses on eating and never aims at weight loss. Where weight restoration is needed for health, it starts early, not when someone feels ready. Weighing and medical targets stay with you. Please send me each weight, so we can work with it in session. Each report covers progress with eating, and appetite changes on stimulants are reported to you as a clinical signal. If anything suggests medical risk, I contact you straight away, or arrange emergency care if it can’t wait.

Before you start a stimulant

Not sure whether eating is a concern? I’ll assess and write back. If it’s significant, the ADHD side may sit better with a psychiatrist or paediatrician than with the WA GP program. I’ll help you make that call early, and stay their therapist either way.

Diagnosis, prescribing, medical monitoring, weighing and growth checks stay with you or the treating specialist. If an eating concern needs a psychiatrist, a paediatrician or more intensive care, I’ll tell you early.

Care is Aboriginal led, neurodivergent affirming and LGBTQIA+ affirming. I’m an Accredited Mental Health Social Worker and ANZAED Credentialed Eating Disorder Clinician, CBT‑E and FBT trained, with around 15 years of clinical experience with children, adolescents and adults. Verify the ANZAED credential.

Referral pathways we accept.

GP Mental Health Treatment Plan (Better Access)
Up to 10 individual sessions each calendar year, and up to 6 per referral, followed by your review. Since 1 November 2025 the plan, its reviews and the referral must come from a GP at the practice where the patient is enrolled in MyMedicare, or from their usual GP (the GP or practice that has provided most of their care in the past 12 months, or is likely to in the next 12). If you diagnosed the patient and won’t be providing most of their care, please send your report to their usual GP, who can prepare the plan and referral.
Psychiatrist or paediatrician (Better Access)
Refer directly. A Mental Health Treatment Plan isn’t needed, and the usual GP rule doesn’t apply. The referral must follow an attendance item that Medicare lists as eligible for psychiatrists and paediatricians (MBS note MN.6.3). Up to 6 sessions per referral, within the patient’s 10 Better Access sessions each calendar year.
Eating Disorder Treatment and Management Plan
Often called an Eating Disorder Plan. For anorexia nervosa, or bulimia nervosa, binge eating disorder or OSFED that meets the MBS criteria: up to 40 eating disorder psychological treatment services in the 12 months after the plan, in courses of 10. A GP, psychiatrist or paediatrician prepares the plan. A review is needed before sessions 11 and 31 (by the managing practitioner where possible), and before session 21 both a GP review and a psychiatrist or paediatrician review. Feeding concerns such as a narrow range of foods, or appetite changes on medication, don’t meet these criteria and usually fit Better Access instead, under the patient’s ADHD or other mental health diagnosis. I provide these services as an eligible social worker for Medicare eating disorder services. The plans, item numbers and review gates →
GP chronic condition management plan
Up to 5 allied health services each calendar year, shared with the patient’s other allied health providers. The service needs to be recommended in the plan, with a signed referral from you. The plan needs to have been prepared or reviewed in the last 18 months; GP Management Plans with Team Care Arrangements made before 1 July 2025 still count until 30 June 2027.
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health assessment follow up
Up to 10 allied health services each calendar year, shared with the patient’s other allied health providers and including any chronic condition plan sessions, with a signed referral from you, after a GP health assessment (including at an ACCHO) identifies the need, or under a chronic condition management plan.
NDIS, DVA and WorkCover WA
NDIS participants whose plans are self managed or plan managed (I’m not a registered NDIS provider, so NDIA managed plans can’t be used), DVA clients, and WorkCover WA claims, each with the referral or approval that scheme requires.

Where a patient could use more than one pathway, we’ll talk with you about which one fits. Referral decisions are always yours.

What to include

  • Patient name, date of birth, Medicare number and contact details (and a parent or carer’s details for children)
  • Referral type and date, the number of sessions referred (where applicable), whether a Mental Health Treatment Plan or other plan has been prepared, and a copy where the patient agrees
  • The ADHD diagnosis and who made it and when (or that an assessment is pending), current medication, and any eating concern or diagnosis (with the Eating Disorder Examination Questionnaire score for an Eating Disorder Plan)
  • Relevant history, including any current risk, and anything that would help us make the first session safe and useful
  • Your name, practice, provider number and signature

Use my referral letter template

A one page letter with everything above, already addressed to me. Import it once into your practice software and it’s there for every referral.

Download the referral template (RTF)

Best Practice: open the word processor, choose Templates, then Import Template, and select the file. Tick Available to all users, add your own data fields if you like, and save.

MedicalDirector: in Letter Writer, choose File, New, then Blank Template. Then choose File, Import, select the file, and choose File, Save as Template.

Where to send it

Address it to Lauren Lynch, provider number 3128471J. We’ll acknowledge your referral within two business days and aim to offer a first session within two weeks.

What you’ll hear back

After session 1
Goals, starting measures, the eating disorder screen result and the plan for sessions.
End of each course
Progress, a repeat screen, and whether further sessions are recommended, so you can review and refer again. That is around session 6 under Better Access, and after every 10 sessions under an Eating Disorder Plan.
At completion
A summary and suggested next steps: step down, an Eating Disorder Plan, or longer term therapy.

If anything suggests medical or safety risk at any point, I contact you straight away, or arrange emergency care if it can’t wait.

Referral summary

What: Telehealth therapy for ADHD while patients wait for assessment and after diagnosis, with or without medication: cognitive behavioural strategies with ACT and DBT skills, and credentialed eating disorder therapy (CBT‑E and FBT) where eating is part of the picture, including an eating assessment before you start a stimulant. Treatment focuses on eating and never aims at weight loss; weighing and medical targets stay with you, and each weight you send me is used in session. Children (with a parent or carer), adolescents and adults.

Who: Lauren Lynch, Accredited Mental Health Social Worker, Body Belonging Clinic. ANZAED Credentialed Eating Disorder Clinician. Provider number 3128471J.

Referrals accepted: GP Mental Health Treatment Plan (Better Access); psychiatrist or paediatrician (no plan needed); Eating Disorder Treatment and Management Plan; GP chronic condition management plan; Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health assessment follow up; NDIS (self or plan managed), DVA and WorkCover WA.

Send to: referrals@bodybelongingclinic.com.au · HealthLink EDI mobmindc · eFax (08) 6186 7098 · phone 0493 117 185

You’ll receive: an acknowledgement within two business days, and reports after session 1, at the end of each course (around session 6 under Better Access, every 10 sessions under an Eating Disorder Plan) and at completion.

Cost to your patient: the standard session fee, with a Medicare rebate under a valid referral. Current fees: bodybelongingclinic.com.au/offerings. Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander patients can be bulk billed by arrangement. Bulk billed sessions (ADHD Belonging) open in 2027.

Not a crisis service. bodybelongingclinic.com.au/for-gps

Information for patients and families is on the ADHD Belonging page, including a note they can bring to their appointment with you. For eating disorder referrals beyond ADHD, and stepping down from a public service, see Referrals.