Therapy for Couples, Individuals & Families, Located in Croydon, Servicing Melbourne
Melbourne's Eastern Suburbs leading practice for couples therapy, individual counselling, and life coaching, located in Croydon and serving all of Melbourne. Offering both in-person and video therapy sessions, available Australia-wide.
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This is your time to thrive and not just survive
Compassionate counselling & therapy in Croydon
At Live Well HQ, we offer a safe, compassionate, and confidential space to explore life's challenges and support your journey toward balance and wellbeing. Our personalised counselling and therapy services are designed to empower individuals, couples, and families to foster healthier relationships, emotional resilience, and lasting positive change.
Online or in-person, it's your choice
At Live Well HQ, we make it easy to access the support you need. Choose between online sessions or in-person counselling at our Croydon clinic. If you have a Mental Health Care Plan through Medicare, rebates are available to help with the cost of sessions.
A qualified therapist who puts you first
Richard is a highly experienced Counsellor, Accredited Mental Health Social Worker, and Family Therapist with over 20+ years of professional practice. He has provided a broad range of therapeutic and support services, helping individuals, couples, and families navigate life's challenges with compassion and clinical expertise.
Compassionate Support Tailored to You
Whether you're navigating life's challenges alone or with a partner, our evidence-based therapies and coaching provide a safe, confidential space to heal and grow.
Couples Therapy
Rebuild trust, deepen intimacy, and strengthen communication with your partner. Our couples therapy provides a neutral, supportive space to work through conflict, trauma, and disconnection, and rediscover your bond.
Individual Counselling
One-on-one counselling tailored entirely to you. Explore your thoughts, feelings, and patterns in a confidential, judgement-free environment. Available in-person in Croydon or via telehealth Australia-wide.
Family Counselling
Navigate family dynamics, generational patterns, and relational conflict together. Family counselling helps restore understanding and connection across all age groups, children, teens, and adults.
Life Coaching
Life coaching is forward-focused and action-oriented. Work with your coach to clarify your values, set meaningful goals, overcome mental blocks, and create real momentum toward the life you want, personally and professionally.
Mindset & Wellbeing
Build resilience, manage stress, and develop a sustainable wellbeing practice. Sessions focus on mindset shifts, habit formation, and practical strategies to help you feel more grounded and in control.
Personal Development
Go deeper into your sense of purpose and identity. This coaching track supports those navigating major life changes, relationships, careers, relocation, or re-discovering who they are after loss or transition.
NDIS Therapeutic Support
We provide NDIS-funded counselling and therapeutic support for participants with psychosocial, intellectual, and physical disabilities. Our approach is person-centred, trauma-informed, and designed to support your NDIS goals.
Support Coordination
Helping NDIS participants and their families navigate their plans, connect with the right providers, and build the skills to manage their supports independently over time.
Telehealth NDIS Sessions
Access NDIS-funded therapy from anywhere in Australia via secure video sessions. Ideal for participants in regional areas or those with mobility challenges who prefer to engage from home.
Clinical Supervision
Professional, reflective supervision for counsellors, social workers, psychologists, and other allied health practitioners. Supervision supports ethical practice, professional development, and practitioner wellbeing in a confidential setting.
Individual Supervision
One-on-one clinical supervision sessions focusing on your caseload, ethical dilemmas, and professional growth. Sessions are structured to meet your registration body's supervision requirements.
Group Supervision
Collaborative group supervision for small teams or cohorts. Share case experiences, peer-reflect, and develop collective clinical wisdom in a structured, professionally facilitated environment.
We work with adults, teenagers, and children experiencing a wide range of mental health presentations. All cases are treated with evidence-based, compassionate care.
Addiction & Substance Use
Targeting dependency on alcohol, prescription or recreational drugs, gambling, and digital or behavioural addictions.
Anxiety Disorders
Managing generalised anxiety, sudden panic attacks, social phobias, agoraphobia, and health-related anxiety cycles.
Compulsions & OCD
Treating obsessive-compulsive disorders, highly intrusive thoughts, and repetitive, restrictive behavioural cycles.
Eating Disorders
Supporting recovery from anorexia, bulimia, binge eating patterns, body dysmorphia, and restrictive eating loops.
Mood Disorders
Addressing clinical depression, persistent dysthymia, bipolar presentations, and chronic emotional exhaustion.
Trauma & PTSD
Re-patterning complex trauma, Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder, childhood neglect, abuse survivors, and domestic harm.
Somatic & Pain Support
Treating chronic pain conditions, medically unexplained somatic tension, and psychological stress stored in the body.
Grief & Loss
Supporting bereavement, complex grief transitions, anticipatory loss, and major post-grief identity rebuilds.
Stress & Burnout
Countering acute professional burnout, executive overload, compassion fatigue, and physical shutdown.
Not sure where to start?
Book a free 10-minute discovery call and we'll point you in the right direction.