Websites for Geelong physiotherapists, occupational therapists, podiatrists, dietitians, speech pathologists and exercise physiologists, and for those working out across the Bellarine, Surf Coast and Golden Plains, organised around the ways clients reach a practice here: a GP or Barwon Health referral, a TAC or WorkSafe claim, an NDIS plan, or a search for someone close to home.
A Geelong practice works under the same Victorian rules as one in Melbourne, but its catchment stretches from the CBD to new estates in the growth corridors and to the coastal towns of the Bellarine and Surf Coast. The site's job is to sort visitors quickly: which scheme they're claiming under, where they live, and which clinician suits them.
Three schemes, three sets of rules for the client. Give each its own short block: whether you treat TAC clients and what they should bring, which of your practitioners are registered with WorkSafe, and your NDIS registration status with the plan types you can work with. Folding them into one paragraph leaves all three groups unsure.
The details a referral should include and where to send it, the funding you accept on referral (Medicare chronic condition plans, DVA, NDIS) and the current wait for a first appointment. Barwon Health directs GPs to Western Victoria HealthPathways for its own services; your page answers the same practical questions about yours.
Belmont, Highton, Grovedale, Armstrong Creek, Lara, Leopold, Ocean Grove, Drysdale, Torquay: people here search by where they live. Put your own suburb in the page title and opening sentence; if you're mobile, name every town you travel to.
If your therapists visit homes, schools or kindergartens, say how far and when, for example the Bellarine on Tuesdays and Torquay and Jan Juc on Thursdays, with nothing past Winchelsea. A family in Bannockburn or Portarlington can then tell before ringing whether you'll come to them.
Each clinician's profession, their Ahpra registration or professional association, any WorkSafe registration, and the people they mostly see (young children, sport and surf injuries, work injuries, older adults), with a booking link that opens that clinician's own diary.
Opening hours, any early, evening or Saturday sessions, where to park and whether the entrance is step-free. The Book button links to your existing Cliniko, Nookal or Halaxy calendar, with tap-to-call beside it for people who would rather ring.
The rules a Geelong practice follows are Victorian, not local. Concerns about registered practitioners go to Ahpra; practitioners who aren't Ahpra-registered (speech pathologists and dietitians, for example) come under the Health Complaints Commissioner's general code, including its requirement to display information about the code and how to complain; health information your forms collect falls under the Health Records Act 2001; and WorkSafe requires providers who treat injured workers to be registered with it. Each is set out, with links to the HCC's and the health department's guidance, on our Melbourne allied health page.
Geelong is, however, where Victoria's two injury schemes and the NDIS are run from. The TAC relocated to the city in 2009, WorkSafe Victoria's head office is at 1 Malop Street, and the NDIA, the agency that runs the NDIS, moved its head office here from Canberra. None of that changes anything for a local clinic, because claims and approvals work the same way across the state. It simply means the injured-clients part of your site should be exact: which of your practitioners are registered with WorkSafe, whether you see TAC clients, and what to bring to a first appointment, starting with the claim number, which WorkSafe says providers can ask for to confirm a worker's claim has been accepted before treatment starts.
The NDIS started here early. The rules that took effect when the scheme launched on 1 July 2013 named the City of Greater Geelong, Surf Coast Shire, Borough of Queenscliffe and Colac-Otway Shire among its first launch areas, alongside South Australia, Tasmania and the Newcastle, Lake Macquarie and Maitland council areas in NSW. For a practice with NDIS clients, the site should match the NDIS Commission's register on whether you're registered, say which ways of managing a plan you can work with (a participant whose funding is NDIA-managed can only use a registered provider), and give an honest waiting time. There's more on that in our Geelong NDIS provider page.
Referrals follow regional lines. Barwon Health's GP Liaison Unit points GPs to Western Victoria HealthPathways for the current referral pathways and criteria for Barwon Health's clinical services, and Geelong sits in the Western Victoria PHN, whose area the federal health department describes as about 629,000 people from Geelong to Dartmoor and up the South Australian border. When a GP or practice nurse settles on a private physio, dietitian or OT for a patient, they still have to choose a practice, and a clear referrer page tells them the format you want, where to send it and roughly how long the patient will wait.
The catchment keeps growing. The City of Greater Geelong puts its population at 295,052 in June 2025, forecast to pass 440,000 by 2046, across more than 50 suburbs and townships. Armstrong Creek, south of the city, is planned for about 22,000 homes, the council expects its Northern and Western Geelong growth areas to take around 110,000 new residents, and G21 notes ongoing growth on the Bellarine and in Lara and Torquay. A clinic in Newtown draws on different streets from one in Ocean Grove or Armstrong Creek, so the site should say plainly where it is and who it reaches. Our team is in Adelaide, so a Geelong project runs by phone and email. No allied health clinic is in our portfolio yet; the two sites below are the closest in how they work.
Neither is an allied health practice, and neither is in Geelong. Dr Tabara Dione's site, for a Melbourne client, is built around one practitioner and a booking link; Resolve Forward, in Sydney, pairs online booking with a multi-step intake form, as a clinic does for new clients.
Coaching for doctors, led by a specialist anaesthetist in Melbourne. Her credentials have their own about page and the discovery-call booking link appears on every page, the pattern we'd follow for each clinician's bio.
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Sydney mediation and family dispute resolution: priced packages linked to online booking, plus a five-step intake form, the same pairing as a clinic's Book button and new-client questionnaire.
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One page for a solo or mobile clinician: the conditions you treat, registration, the towns visited across the Bellarine, Surf Coast or Golden Plains, fees, funding and a Book button.
Our suggestion for most Geelong practices
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A single clinic: home, a services and funding page covering TAC, WorkSafe, NDIS and Medicare briefly, and a practitioners page giving every clinician a profile and their own booking link.
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Clinics in two places, say Belmont and Ocean Grove, or several disciplines: a page per site and discipline, practitioners, and separate pages for NDIS families, injured clients and referrers.
No. Ahpra's advertising rules, the HCC's general code for practitioners outside Ahpra registration, the Health Records Act and WorkSafe registration apply the same way across Victoria. What changes is local: the suburbs and towns you cover, who refers to you and how far your therapists travel. Our Melbourne allied health page sets out the state rules.
List the places your therapists actually reach, grouped the way locals think of them: the Bellarine (Leopold, Drysdale, Portarlington, Ocean Grove, Queenscliff), the Surf Coast (Torquay, Jan Juc, Anglesea) and Geelong's own suburbs. Add which days you're in each area if that's fixed, and say where you don't go. When the pattern changes, editing the list is included in the $30 a month hosting.
If it's most of your work, yes: a line near the top saying you treat TAC and WorkSafe clients, linked to a page that names your WorkSafe-registered practitioners and tells people what to bring. Use the words a client would use, such as claim number and approval, rather than internal shorthand.
Yes, if you want that. A short form can take the patient's name, phone number and why they're being referred, and the page can also show your secure messaging address and fax number for anyone who prefers a proper referral letter. Some practices keep clinical detail out of web forms altogether; in that case the page sets out the steps instead.
Everything happens over the phone and by email, so nobody needs to travel. We're a team based at Ste 3/110 Hutt St, Adelaide, building for businesses Australia-wide, and our current clients are in SA, NSW, VIC and QLD. Once we have your clinicians' details, fees, words and photos, we build a draft you can click through, ask for changes as often as you need, and pay after approving it. We reply within 24 hours.
Tell us your disciplines, where you're based, which towns you visit, the schemes your clients claim under and how they book now. We'll send a quote, then a draft, and there's nothing to pay until you approve it.
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