No. In Australia, Medicare rebates are only available through Clinical Psychologists and some other eligible allied health providers under a Mental Health Care Plan.

The Australian Psychological Society’s recommended fee for a standard 46–60 minute psychology session is currently around AUD 318.
The Medicare rebate for a 50-minute session with a clinical psychologist is approximately AUD 145.25, leaving a significant out-of-pocket cost. 

In addition, Medicare rebates are limited to only 10 sessions per year. Ongoing work beyond this is charged at full fee.

Highly specialised, trauma-informed practitioners in Australia typically charge AUD 150–350 per session, depending on training and scope of work.

While this work may be more expensive in the short term, many clients experience it as a long-term investment — reducing the need for repeated one-off sessions, temporary relief, or cycling through different providers and instead working at the root of their issues. 

Many clients report significant shifts within 5–10 sessions, often describing the work as more impactful than years of talk therapy.

This work is somatic mentorship — held with the rigour of clinical trauma therapy, and the directional clarity of mentorship.

I am registered in Germany as a licensed psychotherapy practitioner (Heilpraktikerin für Psychotherapie) and have over five years of training in somatic and attachment-based modalities (Somatic Experiencing®, attachment-focused psychotherapy, IFS, depth psychology, womb work, traditional tantra).

What this means in practice: we work with the nervous system, attachment patterns, and body history with full clinical depth — and we move forward together. We don't only explore the past or analyse patterns. We work with what is, with what is becoming, and with what you are here to do. The relationship is the work. The direction is part of the work.

This is not basic make-you-feel-better therapy. It is also not performance coaching, mindset coaching, or strategy coaching. It is something else: a held, directional container for the woman who is done with surface-level coaching, stuck-in-the-past therapy, and ready for deeply powerful, aligned work that creates lasting change.

While the work may include elements that feel coaching-like — such as integration, reflection and orienting toward what wants to emerge — it is not performance or mindset coaching.

What I integrate from coaching is direction and embodiment:
We don't only explore the past or analyse patterns, but work directly with the nervous system so change becomes felt, lived and sustainable.

The focus is on nervous system repair, relational safety and embodied capacity — allowing you to not only understand what you want, but to feel safe enough to live it.

Yes — many clients work with me online, and find it deeply effective.

Being in the comfort and familiarity of their own home often allows for greater nervous system settling, safety and integration, especially for attachment and trauma work.

In-person sessions (offered in Mullumbimby / Byron Bay / Northern Rivers) offer an additional layer of co-regulation through presence, embodied work and, where appropriate, somatic touch.
Touch-based work, womb-centred practices and ceremonial elements are only offered in person, always with clear consent and pacing.

Both formats are held with the same depth, attunement and therapeutic integrity.

Single sessions are currently only available in person, for women in the Northern Rivers region. Container work (3- or 6-month) is held flexibly — online, in person, or a mix of both, depending on your location and preference.

This work is for you if you’re done analyzing and understanding your patterns, but not seeing the change in your life and relationships. You’re done with just thinking positive, manifesting your dream life through affirmations or doing deep cathartic healing work that feels exhausting and like a full-time job.

Maybe you sense that your challenges are not a mindset issue, but rooted in attachment, trauma and nervous system patterns — and you are ready to meet them in the body, not just through insight.

It is suited for women who are willing to commit to depth, nuance and a longer-term process, and who feel ready to take responsibility for real change.

If you are seeking crisis support, quick fixes or purely cognitive input without taking action, this may not be the right space.

If you are local to Byron / Northern Rivers, a single in-person session can serve as an entry point to experience this work. If you are looking at the container, a free Connection Call is the natural next step — we sense fit together, without pressure. You can book yourself in here: https://calendly.com/clara-malzer/connection-call

Somatic Experiencing® (SE), developed by Peter A. Levine, is a body-based, trauma-informed approach working directly with the nervous system.

While originally known for addressing survival responses, contemporary SE integrates attachment theory, developmental trauma work and polyvagal principles.

Rather than reliving trauma, confronting or “discharging” it, SE supports the nervous system to restore safety, capacity and relational regulation — allowing attachment patterns, emotional responses and self-perception to reorganise from the inside out.

The work is slow, relational and titrated.
Change emerges as the body learns it no longer has to protect against closeness, emotion or aliveness.

A single session is one meeting in person — a moment of held depth, often powerful in itself. The container is the work — held over 3 or 6 months, with structure, voice/text support, integration support through the practice portal, and the continuity that real nervous-system change requires.

Single sessions are valuable as an intake, an experience, or a held moment for women in the Northern Rivers region who are not currently in a position to commit to a longer process. The container is for women ready for transformation — who understand that the body changes through time, repetition, and held relational field.