Mish Kumar-Jonson
Principal Clinician and EMDR Therapist | They/Them/Theirs
Mish predominantly works on the unceded lands of the Woiwurrung, Wurrundjeri and Bunurong.
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They offer services in person at the Footscray, online via zoom and via outreach appointments to your home, or in the community.
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Mish offers after hours and weekend appointments.
Mish, a plural system, is neurospicy, non-binary and queer therapist of colour, supporting children, young people, adults, and families across Melbourne. As an Accredited Mental Health Social Worker, psychotherapist and Accredited EMDR therapist, Mish supports you with the situations you are currently navigating and has a particular interest in supporting you to work through barriers or hurdles you might experience to achieving and maintaining your favourite version of you. Mish is not interested in fitting people into boxes but rather, is interested in supporting you to explore what healing and wellbeing means to you and how you will get there together.
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Through their dynamic and supportive approach, Mish creates an environment for change that is affirming and accessible for you to explore traumas and distress as well as your current, past or future life challenges. Mish will journey beside you to develop awareness about your circumstances and the impacts of what you are navigating. They are passionate about you learning to be more authentically you in ways that make sense to you and your life.
Mish works collaboratively with you on to bring understanding to situations you might feel stuck in. Through a range of therapy techniques including Eye Movement Desensitisation Reprocessing Therapy (EMDR), Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), Trauma Centre Trauma Sensitive Yoga [TCTSY], body-based movement techniques and Mindfulness Therapy, Mish supports you to process distressing memories, thoughts, emotions, body sensations and behaviours so that you can find peace, healing, calmness and safety in your own being. Mish specialises in Attachment Informed and Relational Integrative EMDR which they use to support you and all parts of you to heal past traumas and present triggers.
Mish acknowledges and supports you to recognise, find and build on your innate strengths which allows you to explore relevant options and pursue the ones that feel right for you.
Qualifications and Professional Associations
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Accredited Mental Health Social Worker [AMHSW]
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Accredited EMDR Practitioner
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Accredited Attachment Informed and Relational Integrative EMDR Therapist
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Master of Social Policy
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Master of Social Work
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Bachelor of Rural Social Welfare
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Post Graduate Certificate in Training and Assessment [TAE]
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Mish's Fees
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$230 for 50 minute sessions
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You can access a medicare rebate [with a valid Mental Health Care Plan from a GP] of $85.20 for 10 sessions with Mish and the out of pocket cost for the 10 rebated sessions will be $144.80
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After the 10 rebated sessions, the full cost of $230 will apply.
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$150 for 50 minute sessions with a valid healthcare card
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You can access a medicare rebate of $85.20 for 10 sessions with Mish and the out of pocket cost for the 10 rebated concession sessions are $64.80
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After the 10 rebated sessions, the concession fee of $150 will apply.
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The Iceberg Foundation is a queer owned and operated organisation that is commited to providing people from the LGBTIQA+ community with a safe space to navigate their experiences as well as strongly advocate for the elimination of gender and sexuality based discrimination
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The Iceberg Foundation acknowledges the traditional custodians of the stolen land and waters on which we work, learn, live and operate. We pay our deepest respects to elders past, and present and their histories, lived experiences and the continuity of their peoples for the past 65,000 years on this unceded land.
We acknowledge the individual and collective expertise of those with a living or lived experience of mental health issues. We recognise their vital contribution at all levels and value the courage of those who share this unique perspective for the purpose of learning and growing together to achieve better outcomes for all.
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