by admin | Anxiety, Blogs
Why Can’t I Make Friends? “I don’t hate people, I just feel better when they aren’t around.” Charles Bukowski Does This Quote Resonate With You? Social situations are fraught with discomfort for the...
by admin | Blogs, Change, Relationship
Why Is It So Hard To Make A Change? Change is difficult, really difficult. It is even more challenging to have any change last into the future. Be it healthy eating, going to the gym, quitting smoking, reducing alcohol intake and so on, habits are hard to break and it...
by admin | Anxiety, Blogs
The Anxiety Response is a Normal Reaction to an Event Anxiety can be really distressing and colour your everyday experiences with tension and make life generally uncomfortable. Anxiety is fast becoming the most commonly diagnosed mental health...
by admin | Anxiety, Blogs, Emotional Abuse, Rebecca Dallard, Stress
Why Do I Feel Like I Can’t Cope? Modern life is complicated. With so many people making demands on you and so many conflicting and competing agendas, it often seems like there’s too much to do and too little time to get it all done. But sometimes the...
by admin | Blogs, Rebecca Dallard
Toxic Behaviours At Work Some people are very difficult to work with. Funnily enough – often the higher up the management chain the more difficult the personality. If you are really unlucky you may even get a boss that the media loves to call a “psychopath”....
by admin | Anxiety, Blogs
What is Social Wellbeing? Our health is multidimensional. Social wellbeing along with physical and mental wellbeing contribute to good health. When we experience unease or nervousness in social situations it can be easy to assume that you have social anxiety. This can...
by admin | Blogs, Child Counselling, Our Approaches, Viviana Jancso
Child Therapy – That’s Child’s Play Remember, Play Therapy is not simply play. It needs a trained therapist who can create a safe and secure environment and promote beneficial, therapeutic interactions. We all know children like to play, but many...
by admin | Alison Bickell, Blogs
It’s normal to feel a sense of stagnation in your job, and it’s reasonable to seek out help to reboot your career. Coaching is a life-affirming forward-looking process that aims to help you realise your potential. Essentially it involves conversations that foster...
by admin | Alison Bickell, Blogs
Compassion fatigue results when someone loses their ability to feel empathy for their clients, loved ones or co-workers because they have been repeatedly exposed to the difficult and traumatic stories and descriptions experienced by others. It is often described as...
by admin | Assimina Simmons, Blogs
The Joy Of Working With Teenagers While studying to become a Family Therapist I observed that many highly qualified and experienced professionals, many who had raised children into teenagers, were nervous about working therapeutically with teenagers. Indeed, the first...
by admin | Assimina Simmons, Blogs
LGBTIQ Issues In Teenagers Belonging and fitting in is the central point to any child and teenager lives. At a time when young people are keenly aware of the social structures within society, they are already feeling delicate and vulnerable; if there are...
by admin | Alison Bickell, Blogs
What Is Rumination? When someone ruminates, they repetitively think about their perceived past mistakes, their character shortcomings, wrongs, and generally negative events and circumstances. When ruminating, it is common to think over and over again about the causes,...
by admin | Blogs, Rebecca Dallard
Environmental Wellbeing We aim to provide a therapeutic space in which both the client and the practitioner can connect. Our nourishing environment is designed to support your journey. When I lived in the Perth Hills I experienced a profound sense of calm when...
by admin | Blogs, Rebecca Dallard, Uncategorized
What is Spiritual Wellbeing? When we talk about spiritual wellbeing this involves our personal values, our beliefs and our search for meaning and purpose in life. Spiritual wellbeing is based on three areas of life experience: 1. Relationships (including self-esteem,...
by admin | Blogs, Rebecca Dallard
What is Psychological Wellbeing? Being healthy involves more than just having good physical health (although this is certainly an element) but also encompasses psychological health, which includes mental and emotional wellbeing. Psychological wellbeing has many...
by admin | Blogs, Rebecca Dallard, Uncategorized
What is Occupational Wellbeing? Occupational (or career) wellbeing refers to feeling good about the work you do. It is answering “yes” to the question “Do you like what you do each day?” It has many facets, including achieving a balance between work and leisure,...
by admin | Alison Bickell, Blogs
Preventing Psychological Injuries In My Workplace: What Are They, Why Are They Important and Where Do I Start? Changes To OH&S Legislation Western Australia, along with other states and territories, will soon adopt changes to their health and safety...
by admin | Blogs, Rebecca Dallard
Healthy Intellectual Wellbeing We are curious by nature, and benefit by feeding our minds with new knowledge and experiences. Healthy intellectual wellbeing can look like many things depending on the individual. You may be the kind of person who is...
by admin | Blogs, Rebecca Dallard
Why Is A Healthy State Of Physical Wellbeing Important? All things in the human body are connected; and as your physical health increases so does your experience of wellness across many of the other dimensions of wellbeing. A balance of mindfulness, exercise,...
by admin | Blogs, Rebecca Dallard
Financial Crisis Your financial situation plays are large part in meeting your basic needs. These needs include shelter (safety), food/water and clothing. Other important needs include access to healthcare, education and sanitisation. When you are unable to...
