Carlton, Melbourne · Telehealth Australia-wide · Six days a week
(+61) 0480 706 922 (SMS ok)
Culturally diverse & CALD-affirming therapy — Melbourne & telehealth
Explaining your cultural background before you can even get to the real issue is its own kind of exhausting. Unison’s clinicians have trained and lived across South Africa, Malaysia, France, Canada, the UK, the US, and Australia — actual range, not one hire ticking a box — so a lot of that context doesn’t need explaining from scratch.
A lot of what brings people to therapy is tangled up with culture. A parent who expects you home every Sunday and doesn't ask why you've stopped coming. A partner from a different background who reads your family's closeness as interference. Moving to Melbourne at nineteen and never quite working out which rules still apply. A generalist therapist can treat those as side details. Here they're usually the centre of the work.
To be clear, your therapist won't assume they know your culture because they know a culture. You'll get asked, not told. The difference is that you won't spend the first three sessions explaining why "just set a boundary with your mum" isn't a real option.
We see clients in person at our Carlton office and by telehealth anywhere in Australia. Medicare rebates are available for individual sessions with our registered psychologist or accredited mental health social worker, with a Mental Health Care Plan from your GP.
Most practices can point to one clinician when a client asks for someone who understands their background. Unison’s team has lived and trained across seven countries between them — South Africa, Malaysia, France, Canada, the UK, the US, and Australia — plus specific training in multicultural and CALD-informed practice. That range isn’t a recruiting accident; it’s what happens when a practice built for people whose lives don’t fit a single mould keeps growing the same way.
Sometimes. Between them, our clinicians have lived and trained across South Africa, Malaysia, France, Canada, the UK, the US, and Australia, but we can't promise a match on a specific culture or language. Tell us what matters to you when you enquire and we'll say plainly whether we have someone who fits.
Yes. With couples from different cultural backgrounds, a lot of the work is making each person’s expectations visible to the other, rather than deciding whose are right. See our relationship therapy page for fees and session lengths.
Accredited Mental Health Social Worker · they/them
JC is an Accredited Mental Health Social Worker and Medicare provider with over 20 years' experience. They specialise in offering deeply affirming, non-judgemental spaces for LGBTQIA+, non-binary, trans, polyamorous, and kink-aligned individuals.
Counsellor · she/her
Nicki is a Gestalt therapist with nearly 20 years of experience helping young people and adults navigate life's complex transitions. She provides a warm, relational space to explore identity, self-esteem, grief, and relationship patterns.
Counsellor & Mental Health Nurse · she/her
Nash is a South African-born, Melbourne-based therapist who works with couples and individuals, with relationships as her main focus — communication, repair, and staying connected through conflict and change, including for people in polyamorous and non-monogamous partnerships. She draws on more than 20 years as an AHPRA-registered psychiatric nurse, including a long history facilitating group therapy, and a Master of Holistic Counselling, bringing that clinical grounding into somatic work and nervous system regulation.
Counsellor & Sex Therapist · she/her
Natasha is a registered psychotherapist with a Master's in Counselling and specialised clinical training in sex therapy. She offers inclusive sex therapy, multicultural counselling, and sex-positive, relationship-diverse care.
Registered Psychologist · he/him
Malan is an AHPRA-registered psychologist with a decade in mental health, working with adults through anxiety, depression, ADHD, grief, and trauma. As a queer practitioner, he brings genuine lived understanding to work with LGBTQIA+ clients and communities. His approach is warm and relational, drawing on EMDR and ACT alongside psychodynamic approaches, and moving at the client's pace.
Founder, Psychotherapist · she/her
Meg is the founder and lead psychotherapist for Unison. For over a decade, she has integrated clinical psychotherapy with creative art therapies and systemic relationship models, with a special focus on non-typical relationship structures.
Start with a free 15-minute fit call — a real conversation with a therapist, not a sales pitch. If it isn’t the right fit, we’ll say so and point you somewhere better.