Originally Posted by Pollyana

Once you have a total of three posts then you can exchange private messages on here, or you can go to ukjoiner's profile to email them.
Click on their username to get to their profile, that's where you will find private message and email links

Originally Posted by HelenTD

Apart from speaking to Ausdoc's wife, you can also look up courses at the universities here, and then email the lecturers of those courses, as it's a specialist subject.

I also found a couple of websites for sexual health counsellors, there's bound to be more out there:
Desiree Spierings, who migrated from Europe, her website says she is "Vice-President and an Accredited Professional Member of ASSERT NSW (Australian Society of Sex Educators, Researchers and Therapists)", so that is another organisation to contact -national office link below. Her website lists all her training, so you could look into that too:
http://www.sexualhealthaustralia.com...t_desiree.html
Marie Rockford http://www.sexcounsellor.com.au/melb.html

University courses (haven't checked all of them; others I found are more in the public health aspects of sexual health rather than counselling):
Brisbane: University of Queensland http://www.uq.edu.au/study/course.ht..._code=PSYC8151
Perth: Curtin University http://publichealth.curtin.edu.au/programs/sexology.cfm
Melbourne: La Trobe University http://www.latrobe.edu.au/arcshs/
Melbourne: University of Melbourne http://www.sph.unimelb.edu.au/future.../sexual_health
Sydney: University of Sydney http://sydney.edu.au/health_sciences...organise.shtml

Australian Society of Sex Educators Researchers and Therapists (ASSERT) http://assertnational.org.au/

Links to various courses (love the website name - Bananas and Melons) http://www.bananasandmelons.com.au/r...education.html

Have you looked into fees? You might have to pay upfront here and it can be very expensive, especially if you are classed as an international student. If you do study here, will you or your OH be the breadwinner? Would your uni timetable allow you to work?

You also have to consider the cost of living in the different cities here and availability of work for you or OH. Plenty of threads on here about that.

If you finished your course after the 1st year, do you end up with a qualification? Another thing to consider - if you wanted to complete the qualification here, how much of your 1st year of study would be recognised as prior learning (RPL, aka Advanced Standing)? Remember too, that the uni year here starts in February for Semester 1, ending in about June, and Semester 2 starts in July/August, ending in November/December. Most courses start in Semester 1, but some start mid-year.

To sum up, DON'T PANIC and take time to look at all the factors!

PS: for those of us at uni here, this is one of those critical times of year, working on final assignments, getting ready for exams, etc, so students and lecturers alike tend to be at the frantic stage and you have to be careful with your timing asking for information and also avoiding the mid-semester break.