The Iceberg Foundation

The Iceberg Foundation delivers Counselling and Psychotherapy for LGBTIQA+ and neurodivergent communities from its Footscray, Victoria base, with sessions also offered online across Australia.

• Provides counselling and therapeutic support, EMDR therapy, and group offerings such as therapeutic Dungeons and Dragons and bi-monthly grief and joy cafes, delivered in person in Footscray or online.
• Accepts third-party funded counselling referrals from NDIS, VoCFAS, Victims Services QLD, WorkSafe and TAC, alongside some EAPs and private health insurers.
• Runs the Manaya Pride Program, providing free identity affirming counselling to LGBTQIAP+ forcibly displaced, refugee and asylum seeker participants, and has delivered over 500 subsidised sessions to concession card holders.
• Offers a free 30 minute initial consult before therapy begins and operates a no waitlist policy, supporting participants within two weeks of completed intake.

Best for: organisations and referral partners such as EAPs, NDIS plan managers or workers compensation schemes seeking identity affirming counselling and psychotherapy for LGBTIQA+ and neurodivergent participants.

The Iceberg Foundation also delivers Mental Health Programs, including workshops and training for the LGBTIQA+ and neurodivergent communities it serves.

• Delivers Youth and Adult Mental Health First Aid training, and community workshops such as Impactful Community Care and Investing in Queer Joy.
• Provides clinical supervision and consultation for allied health professionals, and offers Master of Counselling and Master of Social Work student placements.
• Funds creative community mental health and social inclusion projects through its Elevating the Rainbow grants program, distributing $13,000 to LGBTIQASBP+ communities since inception.

Best for: community organisations and allied health professionals seeking mental health first aid training, clinical supervision or community wellbeing programs for LGBTIQA+ and neurodivergent groups.