Making Sure You’re Leaving Work… At Work
Making Sure You’re Leaving Work… At Work Let’s be honest… we all know work can be stressful at times, and if we’re not careful, we can bring that stress home with us. If you struggle to switch off your “Work Brain” when you get home, this can cause you a...
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Surviving Christmas Alone: A Guide to Protecting Your Mental Health
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...
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How to Improve Your Childs School Attendance
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...
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What a Capacity Building Clinician Can Do For You!
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...
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You’re Human and That’s OK
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....
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Is Work Burnout Real?
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...
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Let’s Talk About Depression
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...
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Supporting Our Rainbow
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...
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Unlocking Healing: Exploring the Power of EMDR Therapy
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...
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5 Tips to Help Your Child Make Friends…
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...
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A Kid’s Brain and The 3 R’s
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...
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Back to School Can Be Scary
Back to School Can Be Scary Starting school can be exciting for some kids and scary for others. This is true whether they are starting school for the first time, starting a new grade, or starting at a new school. Change in routine can be especially tough for some kids....
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The Impacts of Alcohol & Drug Use on Adolescent Brain Development
The Impacts of Alcohol & Drug Use on Adolescent Brain Development Alcohol and drug use can have a profound impact on the developing brains of adolescents. The brain undergoes significant changes during adolescence, and exposure to substances during this critical period can cause long-term damage that can have lasting effects...
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Bipolar Disorder
Chances are you’ve heard of BIPOLAR DISORDER… but how much do you really know about it? Bipolar Disorder is one of the more widely known mental health disorders in today’s society. However, it might surprise you to know that most people don’t really understand what being Bipolar actually means… What is...
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E-Safety and Online Bullying
E-Safety and Online Bullying If you have a young person in your care, you’ve likely spent time thinking about their online safety and technology. There are many fantastic resources for parents and carers to learn more about supporting young people to use technology safely. Here are some tips, tricks and...
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How Engaging in Team Sports Can Benefit Your Child
How Engaging in Team Sports Can Benefit Your Child Team sports have always been, and always will be, a massive part of Australian culture. As a kid, you most likely took part in some kind of team sport…whether it was AFL, Rugby League, Netball, Cricket, Swimming or Soccer. And most...
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How Can We Manage Meltdowns?
Are your kids getting enough sleep? Imagine you’re late for work, your three primary aged children are yet to brush their teeth and you really needed to be at the office 10 minutes ago, and then your 8-year-old proceeds to show significant signs of distress when she can’t find her...
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Understanding Trauma
Understanding Trauma We asked our Clinical Psychologist, Dr Rhiannon Mulcahy…What is trauma? “Trauma is psychological response to a distressing or disturbing event. We often think of trauma as having gone through a life-threatening event – but that’s not the case. It is anything that would cause our body to surge into...
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Are your kids getting enough sleep?
Are your kids getting enough sleep? Sleep is something so simple and fundamental that we’re meant to be able to do it with our eyes closed (excuse the pun). Unfortunately, in our busy and complex world, sleep is often something that doesn’t always come easily. Sleep is as essential to...
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Benefits of Supervision
Benefits of Supervision How can a Psychologist help you to achieve job satisfaction? We live in a fast-paced world with a variety of demands that may impact our psychological wellbeing. This is especially true in our workplace with job insecurity, high workload, difficult relationships with colleagues, long working hours, and...
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Self Care and Parenting
We’ve all heard the catch phrase “work, life balance” but we need to think of this with a third prong – SELF. As parents we often must prioritise the multiple commitments and responsibilities that occur in day-to-day life. Unfortunately, many parents place their own needs low in the list or worst still forget to include
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Overcoming Childhood Trauma
This week Suzie has flown down to the week long ‘International Childhood Trauma Conference’ in Melbourne, which focuses on the therapeutic interventions that work in the face of relational and complex trauma. The experience of childhood trauma is likely to follow you into adulthood. Whether you witnessed violence or were the target of violence or
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The Therapeutic Alliance
It is essential to find the right psychologist for you. The best predictor of a good therapy outcome is a strong therapeutic alliance. The therapeutic alliance refers to the relationship between the psychologist and client. It is your psychologists role to create a safe space where therapy can take place – an environment that is
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