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Surviving Christmas Alone: A Guide to Protecting Your Mental Health Christmas is often seen as a time of joy, laughter, and family gatherings. But for many, the holidays can feel lonely, especially when spent alone. Whether you’re separated from loved ones by distance, circumstances, or personal choice, it’s important to prioritise your mental health and…

How to Improve Your Childs School Attendance Supporting a child who is struggling with school attendance or exhibiting school refusal can be a challenging and emotional experience for both parents and children. School refusal is often linked to anxiety, emotional distress, or other underlying issues, and it’s crucial to approach the situation with empathy and…

What a Capacity Building Clinician Can Do For You! Our Capacity Building Clinicians (NDIS) focuses on intervention supports for children aged 4+ years as well as conducting diagnostic assessments. CQ Psych Services accepts both self-managed and plan managed NDIS clients. Our Clinicians work with NDIS clients and carers focusing on providing services and supports within the…

You’re Human and That’s OK Are you kinder to your friends than to yourself? Many of us are. We lack self-compassion. Being self-compassionate is simply turning compassion inward. We treat ourselves with kindness and understanding rather than being harshly self-critical when we don’t get things right or we’re having a tough time. Instead of being…

Is Work Burnout Real? The answer to that is easy: YES. Burnout is a complex state of complete mental, physical, and emotional exhaustion (characterised by some key elements). Burnout is not caused solely by stressful work environments or too many responsibilities. It can be experienced by people who have experienced prolonged levels of chronic stress…

Let’s Talk About Depression For many people, even in this day and age, it is still considered somewhat taboo to talk about “Depression”. However, this attitude towards depression is largely born out of a lack of understanding as to what depression actually is…   What is Depression? Depression is described as a mental health issue…

Supporting Our Rainbow May 17 is a special day. On this day in 1990, the World Health Organisation removed homosexuality from the Classification of Diseases. In Australia, this milestone has been followed by other advancements for LGBTQIA+ equality (unfortunately, some slower than others – but progress nonetheless). In 2005, the first International Day Against Homophobia…

Unlocking Healing: Exploring the Power of EMDR Therapy with Dr Rhiannon Mulcahy Many people who come to therapy have experienced big “T” and little “t” traumas in their life. Trauma refers to an emotional response to a distressing or disturbing event that overwhelms an individual’s nervous system and their ability to cope over time. Some…

5 Tips to Help Your Child Make Friends… As the new school year has kicked off, many parents share a similar worry about their child… “I just hope they can make some friends”…and for good reason! Being able to make friends is a really important skill for a child to have. It helps them learn…

A Kid’s Brain and The 3 R’s Why don’t words, logic or reason work when a child is really, really upset?   Dr Bruce Perry (a pretty cool neuroscientist) has done amazing research in the field of trauma which has helped us understand WHY and HOW we can go about responding to children’s’ extreme emotions in…