Your Treatment Plan 
With several disciplines in one building, the risk is that someone ends up with three plans that nobody has reconciled. So the plan here names who does what.
What it contains. The problem, in order of what it costs you. Which practitioner is handling which part, and in what order — because sequence matters, and doing everything at once makes it impossible to tell what helped. What you are doing between appointments. A measure. And a review date, commonly four weeks.
Why sequence matters. If someone starts acupuncture, a dietary change and a new exercise programme in the same week and improves, nobody knows which one to keep. Staggering them by a fortnight costs a little time and buys real information.
What goes outside the building. The tests to ask your GP for, written down. Referrals we do not cover ourselves — a psychologist through a GP mental health treatment plan, a pelvic health physiotherapist, an Accredited Practising Dietitian, an exercise physiologist. We would rather name them than stretch our own scope.
What is not in a plan: pre-paid packages across multiple practitioners, which are the easiest way to spend a lot of money in a clinic like this, and standing appointments with no review.
What you should leave with is one document rather than three impressions: the order of the work, who is doing each part, what you are doing between appointments, the measure, and the date we look at it again. If two practitioners here are working on you and you cannot say who is responsible for what, ask, because that is a failure of the plan rather than of your memory.
We are at 2 Austin Street, Lane Cove, opposite the library and metres from Longueville Road.
A treatment plan is a proposal with a review date attached. It says what is being done, how often, and when the two of you will stop and look at whether it is helping. Without that last part it is not a plan — it is an open-ended arrangement, and those tend to continue out of habit.
Most plans start closer together and spread out. Something recent and acute may need a short run of visits near the start; something that has been there for years usually moves more slowly, and pretending otherwise would be dishonest.
The spacing is part of the treatment, not a scheduling convenience. Coming too rarely at the start can mean nothing holds between visits; coming too often later can mean paying for sessions that are no longer doing much.
Usually something small — a movement, a change to how you sit or sleep, something to notice and report back. Not homework for its own sake. An hour a fortnight is not where change happens; it happens in the time in between, and the session is where you work out what to change.
Agree at the start what you are watching. Not "do I feel better", which is hard to judge week to week, but something specific: sleeping through more nights, getting through a working day, being able to do the one thing you stopped doing.
Progress is rarely a straight line. A bad week after three good ones is ordinary. What matters is the direction over a month or two.
You should be told the fee for a first appointment and for follow-ups before you book, and whether there is any difference for longer sessions. If a plan involves a set number of visits, you should be able to work out the total before you agree to it — not discover it along the way.
If something is not covered or not included, that is worth asking about directly.
If nothing has shifted by the review point, that is information, not failure. It means the plan needs changing or that this is not the right approach for what you have. Both of those are better found at session six than session twenty.
A practitioner who only ever proposes more of the same is not reviewing anything.
Nothing in a plan here is a reason to start, stop or change anything your doctor has prescribed. If you want to reduce a medication, that is a conversation with whoever prescribed it, and it can happen alongside this work rather than instead of it.
The point of the plan is to not need it. What that looks like is worth knowing before you get there.
