Hi Kelz83. The BB Chat online service is a free service, available between 3pm and midnight, every day. It is not however the same as talking to a therapist. They seem to have a limit to the amount of time they can give you, somewhere around 15 mins I think from memory. If you are in serious difficulty they will urge you to call the 24 hour help line anyway.
Have you been to your GP and asked for a Mental Health Care Plan? If your GP feels you would benefit with some psychological intervention they will recommend that you go on a MHCP anyway. And that entitles you to up to 10 medicare funded psych visits per year.
Alternatively, do you have any counselors available in your area? They are often funded through medicare as well.
There are a number of emergency online numbers available to you, but not for general on line therapy as such.
You are of course welcome to pose any questions through the forums here any time you like. But as you would know, you may not receive any immediate responses. And the responses are from people like yourself, as opposed to mental health professionals.
Your best option would be to discuss all this with your GP and they can tell you your options.
All the best.
Taurus
