For Referrers- Mindscaper

This page is written for GPs, psychologists, credentialed mental health nurses and allied health professionals considering referring a patient to Mindscaper. If you're a prospective client, welcome — you might find this useful context too.

About Mindscaper

Mindscaper is a bespoke private Mental Health Nurse Practitioner practice (Adelaide CBD + telehealth), providing structured, evidence-based therapy, diagnostics and assessment for adults with persistent trauma-related difficulties, and for patients who don't fit neatly into a single referral pathway — those who need integrated psychotherapy and medication management in one relationship, with one practitioner.

The focus is on functional outcome, helping people return to work, re-engage socially and stabilise day-to-day life.

What Mindscaper offers and what your practice can expect:

  • Integrated psychotherapy + medication management and diagnostics

  • GP Support - fewer repeat presentations for unresolved distress

  • Rapid intake - appointments typically available within a week

  • Clear pathways - structured, goal directed treatment plans

  • Functional focus - daily life capacity

  • Therapeutic grounding in IFS | DBT | EMDR and Brainspotting

    Communication - (with client’s permission) - brief summary after first session, and progress updates, and completion of service summary

When to refer:

Mood and Anxiety - Avoidance and Workplace disengagement

  • Increasing avoidance of work/study

  • Frequent medical certificates or absenteeism

  • Symptoms not responding to focused psychological strategies

  • Social withdrawal following life changes

Trauma-Driven presentations (EMDR)

  • Single incident or complex trauma with intrusive memories, flashbacks or nightmares

  • Chronic hypervigilance not resolving with standard talk therapies

  • Body based anxiety - symptoms with no clear cognitive trigger

  • Repeated therapy attempts with limited improvement reported

  • The story has been told multiple times without resolution

Late- Diagnosed Neurodivergence (Adult Women)

  • Diagnosis made but still not coping-

    • post-diagnostic grief,

    • masking exhaustion,

    • the convergence of trauma,

    • hormonal shifts and

    • executive dysfunction that doesn’t resolve with diagnosis alone

How to refer:

No referral form. No GP Mental Health Care Plan required.

Client makes their own appointment with direct booking link on www.mindscaper.com.au - with immediate availability within 5 business days, noting the service is available Monday and Tuesday’s at this time

No yearly session cap

Email: referrals@mindscaper.com.au with context welcome

Phone: 08 8223 3304

This practice is co-located with Regent Street Psychiatry in Adelaide CBD, but is privately managed.

Fees:

Standard consultation fees apply, with Medicare rebates available - no GP Mental Health Treatment Plan required. Full fee schedule available at mindscaper.com.au/fees

Where collaboration changes the picture:

It Takes a Village:

Some presentations sit outside my standalone scope but are welcome within a village framework:

  • Eating disorders: I'm open if a collaborative care team (dietitian/allied health, medical) is in place or being built

  • OCD: Collaboration with ERP practitioners welcome

  • Psychosis: This is not a primary psychosis service, tho clinically stable patients seeking trauma-informed intervention, a collaborative conversation is welcome

  • Persistent suicidality and complex risk - safety planning and ongoing risk management are embedded in how I work. As a solo practice with finite capacity, please discuss directly before referring if there are immediate risk concerns.

What falls outside my speciality:

  • Perinatal mental health (antenatal/postnatal)

  • Gambling disorders

  • Children and adolescents

  • Acute inpatient stabilisation

  • Forensic presentations or medico-legal work