On the waitlist for assessment
Assessment waits in WA can stretch for months. You don’t need the diagnosis to begin — we can support you through the wait, so you arrive at your assessment with your story already clear.
You’ve got the diagnosis. Now what?
A diagnosis is a doorway, not a destination. This is where you land next: neurodivergent-led, affirming support for making sense of an ADHD diagnosis — and for the brain, body, eating and identity that come with it.
Now welcoming new clients
Medicare rebates via Better Access
Therapy & support, not assessment
ANZAED-credentialed ED clinician
Neurodivergent-led
Nedlands + telehealth Australia-wide
The diagnosis is the easy part.
More WA GPs can now diagnose and prescribe, but the support for everything after is so often left unheld. We don’t diagnose and we don’t assess — we work alongside your GP and hold what comes next. Lauren is an ADHD clinician who is ADHD herself, so she knows this in-between from the inside.
Sound familiar?
- You’ve just been diagnosed, and you’re somewhere between relief and “so… what do I actually do with this?”
- Your relationship with eating and your body suddenly makes a different kind of sense.
- You’re grieving the years you spent thinking you were just lazy, dramatic, or “not trying hard enough”.
- You were handed a script and sent on your way — and that was the whole plan.
If you nodded at any of these, this page is for you — and nothing needs figuring out before you start.
The landing pad works at every stage.
People arrive here from very different places — still waiting, newly diagnosed, diagnosed years ago. All of them belong.
Fresh diagnosis in hand
The “now what?” moment — this is what the landing pad was built for. A few sessions to find your feet, and ongoing support if you want it.
Got the script, never the support
Diagnosed years ago, and the “psychological support” part of the plan never quite happened? That’s incredibly common — and it still counts. You can start now, exactly as you are.
Not just a feeling
We take a short set of standardised measures when you begin and again at review — so what’s shifting is visible, to you and (if you choose) to your GP. Clear, kind, no jargon.
Support for the whole picture, not just the script.
Understanding your brain
Translating the diagnosis into how your day actually runs — executive function, time, energy, motivation — without shame.
The eating & body side
For many ADHDers, eating and body image are tangled up with the brain. This is home ground for us.
Rejection sensitivity & overwhelm
The big feelings and the way criticism can flatten a whole day — understood as wiring, not weakness.
Late-diagnosis grief & identity
The relief, the anger, the re-reading of your whole life through a new lens — and who you get to be now. At your pace.
The person in the other chair.
Lauren Lynch is an Accredited Mental Health Social Worker and an ANZAED Credentialed Eating Disorder Clinician — a rare pairing that means ADHD and eating can be worked with together, not in separate rooms. She built Body Belonging because she’s sat in both chairs — the clinician’s and the client’s.
Sessions with her are warm and unhurried: nothing to perform, and nothing to prove.
The post-diagnosis landing pad.
A short, focused package for the weeks after a diagnosis: two or three sessions to make sense of what ADHD means for your brain, your eating and body, and everyday life — and to leave with a few kind next steps. Carry on into ongoing therapy, or don’t — no pressure either way.
$200 a session (55 minutes), in Nedlands or by telehealth, with Medicare rebates for eligible clients. Full fees & how to begin →
Want something smaller first? Quick Chair is a 25-minute telehealth chat — bulk-billed for eligible clients, so there’s nothing to pay — made for this very moment.
How Medicare works from here.
No riddles: here’s the pathway from “just diagnosed” to rebated support — three steps, and one extra worth knowing.
Ask about a Mental Health Treatment Plan
Your GP (the same one who diagnosed you, or any GP) can write a Mental Health Treatment Plan and refer you here. Up to 10 rebated sessions per calendar year. No plan yet? You can also begin privately, no referral needed.
What a session costs
Sessions are $200 (55 minutes). With a valid plan, Medicare returns around $89.50 on the spot (the current rebate) — we process it for you, nothing to claim — so the gap is around $110. A limited number of reduced-fee concession places are available.
Your GP stays in the loop
We send your GP a brief note when care starts and a progress summary timed to your plan review — measures included, in plain language. You’re always welcome to see what we send.
There can be more support
If eating is a big part of the picture, your GP can assess whether an Eating Disorder Plan applies — up to 40 rebated sessions per year. It’s one of the most under-used pathways in Medicare — and the work we know best.
Are you a GP or clinician? Referral is deliberately simple — confirmed within 48 hours, reports timed to your reviews. How referral works →
Medicare figures current as at July 2026.
Your first session, mapped out.
Not knowing what happens is often the biggest barrier of all. So here’s the whole shape of it — before, during and after.
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Before you arrive
Book online, then everything comes to you by email: a short, readable consent form, and a set of questionnaires to do at home. No phone calls, no waiting-room clipboard — the first session starts as a conversation, not paperwork.
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On screen, or in the room
Fifty minutes with Lauren by telehealth, wherever you are in Australia — and in Nedlands from November 2026. What’s happening now, what you want to be different, and where ADHD fits in the picture. The pace is yours, and nothing has to be told before you’re ready.
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After the session
You leave with next steps that fit your actual week, and a say in what happens from here — landing-pad sessions, ongoing therapy, or nothing more for now. If a GP plan is involved, we handle that side quietly in the background.
No phone call needed.
The whole thing happens on this page — nothing to dial, nothing to compose. Choose a time that suits and you’re done: Lauren looks over every request before it’s locked in, then your confirmation and a reminder land in your inbox. If choosing feels like a lot today, start with a Quick Chair.
Questions, answered.
I haven’t been diagnosed yet — can I still come?
Yes. Many people wait months for an ADHD assessment in WA, and support doesn’t have to wait with you. We can begin with what’s present now — and if the assessment doesn’t go the way you expected, the support still fits. We work with what’s real for you, not just the label.
Can Body Belonging diagnose my ADHD?
No. Body Belonging provides therapy and support, not assessment or diagnosis. Lauren is an Accredited Mental Health Social Worker, not a diagnosing clinician. We work alongside your GP or assessment service, and we’re where you land for the ongoing support after a diagnosis.
My GP just diagnosed me — can you help with what comes next?
Yes. Now that WA GPs can diagnose and prescribe for ADHD, many people walk out with a diagnosis but no follow-on support. That’s the gap we hold: affirming therapy for the body, eating, identity and everyday-life side of being ADHD.
Do I need to be on medication to start?
No. Medication is a decision for you and your prescriber. Support here is about the rest of it, and works whether or not you take medication.
Can I use Medicare?
Medicare rebates may be available for eligible clients with a valid GP Mental Health Treatment Plan or an eligible Eating Disorder Treatment and Management Plan — around $89.50 back per session (the current Medicare rebate), leaving a gap of around $110 on the standard $200 fee. We process the rebate on the spot. See full fees.
Will you keep my GP in the loop?
Yes — that’s part of how we work. Your GP receives a brief note when care begins and a progress summary timed to your plan review, with standardised measures included so progress is shown, not just described. You’re always welcome to see what we send.
In person or online?
Telehealth from anywhere in Australia, with in-person sessions at the Nedlands rooms from November 2026.
Take the guide, not the leap.
If today’s job is just reading, that’s a fine place to be. When food stuff is brain stuff covers where ADHD and eating meet — short, warm, and written for brains that skim. It arrives free when you join the letters, and leaving is always one click.
Accredited, credentialed & in good company
This is not a crisis service.
Body Belonging Clinic is not an emergency or crisis service. If you or someone else is in immediate danger, call 000. For 24/7 support: Lifeline 13 11 14, 13YARN 13 92 76, Kids Helpline 1800 55 1800, or the Butterfly Foundation 1800 33 4673.