25 Essential Tips for a Memorable and Joyful Festive Season and New Year
As the festive season and New Year approach in Australia, it’s the perfect time to plan for a period full of joy, connection, and celebration.
Beating Financial Stress in Australia: Your 2024 Mental Health Survival Guide
As the festive season of 2024 approaches, Australians face a challenging financial landscape. This blog aims to offer understanding and strategies for managing these challenges, focusing on maintaining mental health during these testing times.
Understanding MIGDAS: A Neuroaffirmative Approach to Autism Assessments for All Ages
As the principal psychologist at our clinic, I’m delighted to introduce the strengths-based Monteiro Interview Guidelines for Diagnosing the Autism Spectrum, Second Edition (MIGDAS-2). This method represents a significant development in autism assessments, offering a neuroaffirmative approach that values the unique perspectives of autistic individuals. What is MIGDAS? Developed from extensive research, MIGDAS is an interactive method for evaluating autistic individuals. It stands […]
Take A.C.T.I.O.N. 6 Steps to Managing Anxiety in Children
Anxiety – it’s something that we all experience, and children experience anxiety too. Whether it be anxiety about: performance (e.g. worries about tests, homework, or out-of-school activities), social situations (e.g. talking to new people, or doing a speech), or just general concerns about life (e.g. worries about things happening on the news) Some level of […]
3 Exercises for Building SELF – COMPASSION
Self-compassion involves treating yourself with the same kindness and support you’d show to a good friend. When faced with life struggles or confronting personal mistakes and inadequacies, self-compassion responds with kindness and understanding rather than self-judgement. It involves actively comforting, protecting, and supporting ourselves when we’re in pain. Self-compassion is seeing our imperfections as part […]
Top Tips – Back to School with COVID-19
Top Tips – Back to School with COVID-19 For many parents, the thought of their children going back to school can be an exciting thought. You have probably run out of ideas for activities to entertain your children with, and of the costs that can come with it! However, coming to end of the school […]
Five steps to keep your children safe on social media
Teaching your children good habits for using social media can have lasting positive benefits to their emotional and behavioural development. Knowing how to navigate this territory, however, can have its challenges. If you are a parent with children reading this, know you are not alone! Below you will find five simple steps outlined for effective […]
Understanding The 3 Key Components of Social Anxiety
Have you ever experienced social anxiety? Do you reject invitations to social events because you might feel uncomfortable if you went? Does being anxious around others keep you from doing things you want to do in life? Social anxiety is feeling anxious and nervous in situations involving other people such as public speaking, engaging in […]
Top 5 Tips for Healthy Winter Eating
Top 5 Tips for Healthy Winter Eating The winter season can prompt us to change many aspects of our lifestyle, particularly our diet. For many people, food becomes a primary source of comfort and warmth, during a period when the thought of exercising and getting out of the house can be less appealing. These changes […]
Six Strategies for Work-life Integration
Six Strategies for Work-life Integration Something that I have learned recently is that self-care and having a work-life integration is critical to be at your best. You need to look after yourself to be at your peak performance level and your peak happiness level – as one once said, you cannot pour from an empty […]