At the beginning of your mental health care plan you will be able to access medicare rebates for up to ten individual and ten group appointments with allied mental health services. You cannot access all ten sessions at once. After you have completed six sessions you must return to your doctor for a review of the plan and then you can access the other four sessions. Recently, due to impacts of COVID-19 on mental health, the federal government announced another ten sessions that can be accessed for people who have already used their ten sessions. You must see your doctor to access these sessions.