Mental health hacks are your best friend over the silly season.  The holidays can be a joyful time when we get to reunite with family and friends, especially if you’ve been separated for some time due to the pandemic. And because emotions are dialled up to eleven, holidays can also take a toll on mental […]

Compromise in Relationships: Give A Little, Gain A Little Compromise in relationships is like any negotiation. Dr John Gottman calls this “Yielding to Win”. To achieve our desired outcome, we approach a negotiation knowing what we are, and are not, willing to compromise on. It’s the same in all relationships. The Lovely Illusion of Limerance […]

Food and Mood: Nutritional Psychology Do you know how intimately your food and mood are connected? On the therapy chair, we focus primarily on your state of mind when assessing your mental health. We might look at your values, desires, relationships, sources of stress and other components of your cognitive ecosystem. To look at food […]

How Necessary is Conflict Resolution? Conflict resolution for couples is often thought to be a critical skill in making a marriage work. Partners frequently tie themselves in knots trying to figure out the key to finally ending long-standing issues between them. And after 2020 and 2021 with many partners in lockdown and working from home […]

Challenges in Mental Health During Covid Lockdowns Are you over it? Lockdown, I mean. And the threat of Covid generally? I know I am. Covid has been this spectre that I recall sensing in early 2020. My awareness of it began increasing as the virus hit our shores. Then there was quite a bit of […]

Under Investigation with Liz Hayes: Catch Me on the Team of Experts It’s not every day you get invited to appear on TV with Liz Hayes! I was thrilled to be invited as a guest on the panel of Under Investigation, an upcoming TV series hosted by Liz Hayes, to be screened on Channel 9 […]

2020 Wasn’t All Bad! You could be forgiven for believing that there were zero heartwarming moments of 2020. It’s been a rough year. Here in Australia, we started 2020 with one of the most devastating bushfire seasons in living memory. Whether you suffered significant personal loss, knew someone affected, or watched in horror as the […]

A pandemic Christmas is a little different to the norm. Instead of my usual Christmas Survival Guide where I give you hints and tips on navigating family relationships, this year I am writing about how to manage if you can’t be with that mad, crazy, lovable family of yours, as you usually would. Christmas Might […]

You might not be a mental health professional, but that doesn’t mean you can’t support others in a pandemic like Covid-19. There are some simple but highly effective ways you can help someone who’s having a rough time right now.   Signs of Mental Health Struggles During the Coronavirus Pandemic There is a lot in […]

  Staying Sane in the Coronavirus Pandemic What’s your pandemic sanity strategy? Have you intentionally created some kind of plan to nurture your mental health in this time? Or are you winging it and hoping for the best? None of us could have imagined the situation we currently find ourselves in. And while you may […]