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Private online counselling across Australia · Accredited Social Worker
Accredited social work counselling that works with both words and the body, for adults who carry more than they let on. Neurodivergence, trauma, complex mental health, women's health, and relationships. Twenty years of clinical depth, and a steady space where the difficult parts can be met without judgement or surprise.
60 minutes · Secure video, phone or written counselling · $185 for individuals · No referral needed
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“Meg is attentive, compassionate, supportive and kind in ways that make a great therapist.”MEB Counselling clientSee how online counselling works →
Appointments, when you’re ready
Compare the fees first, then use the calendar below to choose a time. It opens directly to a standard individual appointment so you do not have to sort through the full service list.
Prefer ongoing counselling after your first session? Regular-session arrangements and packages offer a 10% reduced rate. They are available as a secondary option, or you can ask Meg what may fit.
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Looking for couples counselling? View couples appointment times →
Need immediate help? MEB Counselling is not a crisis service. In Australia, call Lifeline on 13 11 14, or call 000 if there is immediate danger.
Why this approach works
Talking helps—being understood, making sense of things, saying the unsayable out loud. But if the feeling lands in your body before it reaches language, words alone leave a lot on the floor. Sessions work with both: some are mostly talk, some are mostly body, and the balance follows what the moment needs.
A social worker also sees the whole picture, not just the symptom—your relationships, pressures and circumstances, not only what is happening inside you. Practical as well as emotional, strengths-based rather than pathologising, and backed by accreditation and a professional code of ethics.
Twenty years of clinical depth means very little turns up that has not been met before, from everyday overwhelm through to bipolar, clinical depression and addiction—worked alongside your GP or psychiatrist where that is right, not handed back to a waitlist.
Is this you
If any of that landed, you are in the right place.
Why social work counselling
Social work counselling looks at you in context. Not only what is happening inside you, but the relationships, pressures, and systems around you that shape how you feel. It is practical as well as emotional, strengths-based rather than pathologising, and held to professional accreditation and a code of ethics.
You are more than a diagnosis. The work holds your inner world and your real circumstances at the same time.
Insight matters. So does the form you cannot face filling in and the system you cannot navigate. Both belong in the room.
Accredited social work counselling means real training, professional standards, and ethical accountability behind every session.
Social work is built on whole systems and messy reality. Families, relationships, and the parts that do not reduce to a single diagnosis. Complexity is the starting point, not a problem to tidy away.
Why work with MEB Counselling
From everyday overwhelm to bipolar, clinical depression, and addiction. MEB Counselling works alongside your GP or psychiatrist where that is right, and does not hand the difficult presentations straight back to the waitlist.
Plenty of practitioners do talk therapy. Fewer are also trained to work somatically. At MEB Counselling you get both, used in whatever balance the session calls for.
Accredited social work counselling, not a coach or an app. Real training, real accountability, and real clinical depth behind every session.
Assessments, labels, second opinions, and the systems people get lost inside. MEB Counselling helps you make sense of what a diagnosis means for your life, not just your file.
About
Megan Bonetti · Founder and principal practitioner · Verified AASW profile · Telehealth Australia wide
Meg has spent more than twenty years in social work, across community programs, senior leadership, and clinical practice, before building MEB Counselling from a small island in the Torres Strait. That lived understanding of distance and limited local services shapes her work with rural, remote and regional clients. She provides online counselling right across Australia, so location is never the reason someone goes without good support.
Her approach is warm, direct, and very hard to shock. There is clinical depth for the serious end of things, and steadiness for the ordinary, exhausting, human middle. Expect plain language, no jargon, and no pretending life is tidier than it is.
Areas of focus
Body-aware counselling for chronic responsibility, exhaustion and people who keep functioning long after they are depleted.
Confidential online support that understands distance, limited services, small-community privacy and high-responsibility roles.
Affirming counselling plus information about ADHD and AuDHD groups, workshops and MEB's grassroots community of 40+ women.
Restorative relationship work, conflict and repair, separation or divorce, mediation preparation, caregiving and later-life family decisions.
Ways to work together
Online and telehealth counselling across Australia for individuals, couples and whole families, including people in rural, remote and regional communities. Choose phone with no camera or masking, secure video, or chat when speaking feels like too much. Social work training means working with the system, not just the person.
Online reflective supervision for social workers, counsellors, psychologists, doctors, nurses, paramedics, firefighters, police, allied health practitioners and other helping professionals across Australia.
Program design, evaluation, and trauma-informed consultancy, drawing on two decades of community and cross-cultural practice.
Choose your way in
Choose the format that asks the least of you that day—you can change it from one session to the next. Booking needs no phone call: choose a time online, then complete a short intake form.
Join from wherever feels private and steady, with the warmth of seeing one another and none of the travel.
Walk, lie down, stare out a window—whatever helps you stay present without having to perform being okay.
A private, scheduled 60-minute counselling session conducted in writing with Meg.
Frequently asked questions
No. Phone sessions are available if you do not want to be on camera, and written counselling is an option when speaking feels difficult or inaccessible.
Yes. Meg works from the Torres Strait and understands the realities of distance, privacy and limited local services. Online counselling is available to adults, couples and families throughout rural, remote, regional and metropolitan Australia.
Meg Bonetti is an accredited social worker with more than 20 years of experience. Her counselling is trauma-informed, body-aware and grounded in professional social work standards.
Client experience
Recent platform feedback offers a grounded snapshot of what it feels like to work together.
Average live-session rating
158 responses
Respect and support
57 responses
Empathy
57 responses
Expertise
57 responses
Platform-reported client feedback collected July 2025–June 2026. Response counts vary by question. Ratings describe client experience and do not guarantee a particular treatment outcome.
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