Something we continue to encounter with the families we work with is kids experiencing different anxieties related to school and learning. Some of these anxieties are about the social aspects of school like friendship problems and bullying behaviours, however increasingly we are hearing about anxieties related to the learning and work load aspects of school. […]
I recently listened to a podcast by Dr Kate Owen, a clinical psychologist on the Gold Coast. She offered some interesting ideas around the ‘contagious nature’ of anxiety and other negative emotions. (Have you ever noticed how flat you feel after looking forward to a meet up with a friend who then ‘dumps’ all […]
Recently, I was listening to one of Glennon Doyle’s morning meetings where she was talking about how as a family they have learnt to listen to each other’s worries without offering fixes or solutions. Glennon Doyle is a well known author of memoirs, Love Warrior and most recently Untamed where she shares her learnings of […]
Yesterday I was listening to a podcast where Elizabeth Gilbert, well-known speaker and best-selling author of Eat Pray Love, City of Girls and Big Magic shared some thoughts around her own experience of living in Covid-19 isolation in the USA. She spoke to so many facets of this unexpected journey we are all negotiating together, […]
A few months back, I went to a networking event and met a fellow counsellor who shared a message with me that stuck like glue. This message was along the lines of: “most people that seek counselling do so because they have lost confidence in their capabilities and strengths for dealing with the difficulties […]
Family Counselling can often be considered a bit taboo in Australian culture – it’s not something you regularly hear people talking about openly. Like most things that aren’t talked about openly, this tends to breed misunderstanding and confusion around what actually happens in a family counselling session, and what to expect with things like: How many session […]
This is a question I hear a lot. A big part of the answer relates to specialisations in the mental health field, and what different professionals in counselling and psychology bill themselves as ‘experts’ in. The thing is with counselling (as opposed to psychology), we don’t tend to put as much emphasis on specialisations because of one […]
