Small Talk and Signalling

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Small talk is more than just polite nothingness, it helps us safely check in, helps us be social, and important helps us find interesting people. But only if we do it right. SMALL TALK! Hoo ha. What is it good for? Actually… The most common form of small talk is just an acknowledgement of existence.– … Read more

Hearing Voices Primer

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We’ve added a new Education Page, a Hearing Voices Primer. Our Primers are quick ways to orient to some of the important basic frameworks for certain complex mental health concepts. Check out the complete Primer here [Link] Here is a preview: Hearing Voices is a code phrase for someone who perceives (hear, smell, see, taste, … Read more

Over Thinking

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Over thinking is a part of anxiety, generally long term rather than recent. A brief on anxiety: Some anxiety is caused by over expecting past bad things to happen again. Some anxiety is caused by past compensating behaviours being poor for a stable environment. Some anxiety is caused by situational problems that may need addressing. … Read more

Anxiety and the fight flight response, a quick guide

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Anxiety – it can be tricky. Below is a quick and basic guide to addressing long term anxiety. For a deeper dive on Anxiety [Link] It starts with some CBT (Cognitive Behavioural Therapy), where we look at a combination of the thoughts and behaviours around the triggering things, in this case emails. If there are … Read more

The Five Phases of Trauma Therapy

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Trauma is a term that is often very misunderstood in Mental Health. While PTSD (Post Traumatic Stress Disorder) is a serious condition, far too many people misdiagnose PTSD when in reality the situation was merely uncomfortable, regretful, confusing or better attributed to another condition. Trauma is often uttered as an explanation for odd cognition or … Read more

Our New Office has just Opened!

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I’m excited to be starting my new location in our New Office – Midland, Western Australia. I’ve been working towards this for a while now, and we signed the lease 10 days ago and opened our doors only 1 day ago! We have 3 rooms available for sub-leasing to Allied Health Clinicians, whether Social Workers, … Read more

Feeling Antisocial

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While humans are social animals, not all people benefit from these social interactions. Often there are some changes that can be made to address this, sometimes it is valid to just be alone. Humans evolved long before what we recognise as civilisation existed. The ancestors that branched off from the other Primates 6 million years … Read more

Mental Health and Medicine

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I am frequently fascinated and sometimes a bit horrified by the explanations that my clients give me to explain their feelings, thoughts and behaviours. The vast majority of these concerning explanations are steeped in a belief of ‘personal failure’, misattribution to ‘trauma’ and blaming ‘bad parenting’. While insufficient effort to change, traumatic experience and poor … Read more

Autism Parents

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“Why can’t parents talk about their experience with Autism?” ‘Because unless they’re Autistic parents,they’re not talking about their “experience with autism”.They are talking about their observations of their Autistic child,filtered through their own non-Autistic perspective.’ The common response Actually, it’s more complicated than that. We know that most parents of Autistic kids are also Autistic … Read more

ADHD Primer Part 3 – Autism and ADHD Comorbidity

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If a person has sufficient traits of Autism and sufficient traits of ADHD, then that person should be diagnosed with Autism and ADHD Comboridity. “Co-morbid” is the medical term for co-occuring for the same person. The question, though, is how common is a comorbid diagnosis in society, and how common should it be? [Link to … Read more