Gay Men’s Health at Darling House offers a professional, confidential and free counselling service for gay, bisexual, and other same sex attracted men living in country and metropolitan South Australia.

The service is ‘peer’ based, meaning that your counsellor will be gay, bisexual or same sex attracted and therefore will have a good understanding of the gay, bisexual or same sex attracted community in Adelaide and the issues that gay and other same sex attracted men have to deal with.

Locations

The service is based at Darling House in Norwood, but the counsellor can also see clients at the Noarlunga Health Village or the Playford Community Health Centre at Davoren Park.
The counsellor is also able to make professional visits to see clients in prison.
Country clients can make an appointment to speak to the counsellor by phone.

What type of counselling?

The type of counselling used at Gay Men’s Health is known as brief therapy.
Brief therapy concentrates on a particular issue and the changes that you might need to make in your life to achieve what you want.

Most clients are able to achieve these changes within 6 sessions, but some issues may take longer. In these cases your counsellor will either refer you to a service that can provide longer term therapy, or negotiate further sessions if other therapies are not available.

As a client of Gay Men’s Health counselling, you are in charge of your therapy and the changes you make.

Your counsellor will not judge you nor diagnose your problem, but will work with you to help you find ways to improve your emotional health and well-being.

What issues can I bring?

The counsellor at Gay Men’s Health is able to help you with a range of social, emotional, sexual and behavioural, and relationship issues such as:

• discrimination and hostility at work or socially;
• feeling isolated because of your sexuality;
• coming out to family and friends;
• feeling anxious or depressed;
• conflicts with your partner;
• keeping up safe sex practices; and
• any other issue that you may wish to talk about with a counsellor.