01 Access
Equal access
Same week start, no triage queue, no postcode filter. If you need allied health, we make a way to see you at home, in clinic or online.
About Equal Therapy · Melbourne Allied Health
Equal access to senior allied health,
for every body and every age.
We started Equal Therapy because too many families in Melbourne were spending months on waitlists, bouncing between providers, and ending up with five disconnected plans and no real progress. We thought we could do it differently. Quieter, and faster, and at the kitchen table instead of the clinic.
Melbourne · since 2024
What we stand for
Six principles
we won't compromise on.
We're a small clinic on purpose. Small enough that every clinician actually knows every client we're working with, and senior enough that the advice you get is the same in your first session as it is in your fiftieth.
02 Outcomes
Practical outcomes
Therapy that gets you to the letterbox, the kitchen, the school run. We measure progress by life, not by session count.
03 Seniority
Senior clinicians, always
No rotating juniors, no surprise locums. Every clinician you meet has years of practice behind them and supervision around them.
04 NDIS
NDIS-ready
Registered, audited, plain-spoken. Reports your planner can read, evidence your support coordinator can use, billing that doesn't bounce.
05 Family
Family-friendly
Siblings welcome. Grandparents welcome. We work around school runs and shift work, and we treat the whole household when that's what helps.
06 Plain language
Plain-spoken
No jargon, no therapy-speak. Reports in English, plans you understand before we hit send, conversations that make sense the first time.
The long version
Why we exist,
how we work.
01 · Why we exist
Origin story
Built in waiting rooms.
Max started Equal Therapy after a decade of watching families sit in clinic waiting rooms across Melbourne's South-East: three providers, four buildings, five appointments to coordinate, and nobody actually talking to each other.
The diagnosis was always the same: the system was fragmented. The fix had to be a clinic where one team holds the plan, the visit comes to the family, and senior clinicians are the rule rather than the exception.
“I started this because I kept meeting families who had been on waitlists longer than their kids had been alive. We can do better than that.”
How we work
One plan. One team. One conversation.
Every Equal Therapy client has one shared file, one set of goals, and a clinical team that meets fortnightly to talk through what's working and what isn't. OT, Speech and Physio sit in the same huddle and read each other's notes, so you don't end up being the messenger between your own providers.
- Fortnightly clinical team huddles with all disciplines
- Shared notes. Never “please get a copy from the other provider”
- One plan reviewed every twelve weeks against real goals
- Intake team that replies inside one business day
02 · How we work
03 · Where we go
Where we go
Your house. Our clinic. Or your laptop.
Most sessions happen at home, because most goals are in the home: cooking, dressing, talking, moving, regulating. We also see clients at our Dandenong clinic, at our Preston and Werribee branch clinics, and online for review sessions, planning calls, and rural clients who'd otherwise wait six months locally.
In-home In-clinic · Dandenong Preston Werribee Telehealth AU-wide
See where we work
By the numbers
A small clinic,
deliberately.
We grow slowly on purpose. Every new clinician is hired senior, every new suburb is added only when we can deliver the same standard at the door.
3
Senior clinicians
OT, Speech & Physio · every visit, no juniors
3
Clinic locations
Dandenong, Preston & Werribee
40+
Suburbs covered
Across Casey, Dandenong, Frankston, Cardinia, Kingston
3 in 1
Disciplines, one team
OT · Speech Pathology · Physiotherapy
How we operate
Brand
principles.
The rules we run the clinic by. Short, deliberate, and the same whether you're a self-funded client or an NDIS participant on day one of plan management.
01
Show up.
On time, prepared, with the file read. The hardest part of allied health is reliability, so we make it the easy part.
02
Write it down.
Every session, every plan, every conversation with the family. Verbal advice is good. Written, sharable, dated advice is better.
03
Hire senior.
Junior clinicians are wonderful and they deserve a clinic that will train them properly. This isn't that clinic, yet.
04
Plain English.
If a family member can't read the report, the report isn't finished. NDIA planners deserve the same courtesy.
05
Stay small.
Growth without quality is just billing. We'd rather add one senior clinician a year than three juniors a quarter.
Ready when you are
Start with us this week,
not next quarter.
One conversation with our intake team and we'll work out who you should see, where, and when. No scripted call, no triage queue, no three-month wait for an answer.
Same week
No waitlist.
Most new clients start within seven days
One team
OT, Speech & Physio,
one shared plan
In-home
Across Melbourne's
South-East & beyond