Connect to Wellbeing – Northern Territory

This service is free for participants.

When we receive your referral from a GP, our team will look over the referral before giving you a call to book you an appointment with a clinician.

The Connect to Wellbeing worker will talk with you about your needs and work out which services might be right for you.

You will be contacted within three days. We will offer you an appointment date within the next two weeks.

If your referral relates to Suicide Prevention Services, you will be contacted within 24 hours (Monday-Friday) and offered an appointment within 72 hours.

We will provide you with updates and information about a referral, as it is actioned and received by service providers.

Providers of Psychological Therapies will continue to provide a review / feedback at the completion of allocated sessions.

Stepped care is an evidence-based, staged approach to the delivery of mental health services, comprising a hierarchy of interventions—from the least to the most intensive—matched to the individuals’ needs.
It is about ensuring that people can access the most appropriate services for their mental health needs at any given time— including the ability to step-up and step-down to different levels of care as they move along their recovery journey.

Clinical services such as Psychological Therapies will be available to people in need of mild to moderate support who face difficulty in accessing services—such as young people, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, people who are experiencing homelessness, and people in rural and remote communities.

Psychological Therapies replaces services currently delivered under Access to Allied Psychological Services (ATAPS).

These services will continue to be directed to people who cannot access or afford other programs such as the Medicare program, Better Access.