GP Mental Health Referral Guide – Complex Grief, Trauma & High-Conflict Family Care
Clinician: Mary Brindley
Mental Health Specialist
Focused Psychological Therapies | EMDR | Grief Work | Family Systems
Who to Refer
Patients presenting with:
- Complex grief (anticipatory grief, disenfranchised grief, ambiguous loss)
- Trauma exposure, PTSD, complex trauma
- High-conflict separation/divorce & Court-related family stress
- Chronic emotional dysregulation
- Medically unexplained symptoms linked to psychological distress
- Repeated GP presentations for psychosocial distress
- Adjustment disorders with functional impairment
- Litigation-adjacent stress without forensic intent
Clinical Focus
- Trauma-informed incl. EMDR
- Grief-focused therapy
- Emotional regulation & stabilisation
- Functional recovery
- Family systems & high-conflict dynamics
- Non-forensic therapeutic containment (court-safe clinical practice)
GP Value
- Structured, evidence-based care
- Risk-aware therapeutic practice
- Reduced crisis re-presentations
- Reduced GP emotional containment burden
- Clear therapeutic boundaries
- Functional improvement focus
- App-supported therapy for between-session regulation
Referral Pathway
📄 Mental Health Care Plan referrals accepted
📧 Health Link EDI: familyrf
⏱ 5 day intake response
💳 Payment plans for financial distress or extending beyond ten session medicare allocation
Therapeutic Support Tools
Structured therapeutic app support for:
- Emotional regulation
- Co-parent conflict management
- Grief processing
- Parent emotional containment → reduces dependency and crisis GP presentations
Contact:
mary@familyrelief.com.au or 0422782476