Mental Health Nursing

Living with mental illness is tough.

From managing your symptoms, finding treatments that work, talking with different health professionals - it can all be overwhelming. Particularly when your condition makes getting care harder.

We’ll work with you to figure out the right mix of treatments. Whether it’s therapy, medications, care coordination, or skills training. Our Mental Health Nurses use an individualised case-management approach to improve both short-term and long-term mental health care.

What can a Mental Health Nurse do for me?

Our nurses can provide a range of psychotherapy modalities, including

  • Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT)

  • Dialectical Behaviour Therapy (DBT)

  • Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)

  • trauma informed talk therapy.

  • cross-modality skills like mindfulness and distress tolerance

  • provide mental health education - know what to expect from your condition and how to best treat it

We combine psychotherapy with clinical care coordination, which involves:

  • mental health, clinical risk, and functional capacity assessments to aid with NDIS applications/reviews

  • collaboration with your GP to contribute to diagnoses, care planning, and reviews

  • regular check-ins to help you monitor your symptoms, risks to you, and how well your treatments are working for you

  • Help you coordinate your care between your family, health providers, and other services/agencies

  • Link you with other services to help your recovery.

Where can I get Mental Health Nursing?

Goondiwindi, Western Downs,
and Lockyer Valley

In Goondiwindi, Western Downs and Lockyer Valley, our Mental Health Nurse Program is part of the stepped care model and is funded by Darling Downs and West Moreton PHN through the Australian Government. Residents of these areas can access the program free if they meet the eligibility requirements.

We offer face to face mental health nursing in select GP practices in Goondiwindi, Western Downs, and Gatton. We also offer telehealth services if the flexibility of doing appointments for home suits you better.

  • The Mental Health Nursing program open to anyone who meets the eligibility criteria, not only existing patients of Mi-Mind Centre.

    To be eligible, you must be:

    • 16+ years old (Mandatory)

    • Have a Mental Health Care Plan (Mandatory)

    • Have a diagnosed mental health condition

    • Having mental health issues that are significantly impacting on social, personal and/or work life

    • Are at risk of being admitted to hospital in the future if clinical care coordination is not provided or have already had at least one admission due to their mental health in the last 12 months

    • Are assessed as needing clinical care coordination for their ongoing treatment and management of their mental health for an extended episode of care

    • Under the care of a GP/Psychiatrist for mental health care (Referral required)

  • The Mental Health Nursing program is fully funded by the PHN.

    There is no cost to access the program.

  • Your usual GP or psychiatrist can refer you to the Mental Health Nursing program. The referral form can be found here.