Five Ways Nature Can Boost Your Mental Health
Your surroundings can have a significant effect on both your physical and mental health, impacting your mood, behaviour and even your nervous, endocrine and immune systems. You’ve probably experienced a situation where a room or environment you’re in feels ‘depressing’. This may have caused you to feel anxious or sad, particularly if you were in […]
Tips to Stay Mentally Healthy at Work
A certain level of stress at work is often unavoidable. But, if you find it’s becoming difficult to deal with that stress on a daily basis, it’s important to be proactive before it turns into a real problem. Workplace stress can be damaging to both your mental and physical health. It may lead to anxiety […]
5 Ways to Stop Worrying and Be Happy
When people don’t know the outcome of a future event, it often causes worry. Psychologists call this apprehensive feeling anxiety. Though it’s normal to have these feelings from time to time, it’s important to learn several methods to stop anxious thoughts and adopt a positive frame of mind. Here are five techniques to use to […]
Counselling Versus Psychology – What’s the Difference?
Although the two terms are often used interchangeably, especially online, counselling and psychology are not the same. When researching on the internet, the terms may be used in such a way that it’s very hard to decide what you really need. It can be even more confusing because a psychologist may perform short-term counselling, but […]
5 Strategies to Cope with PTSD
Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) is one common form of mental illness. More than a quarter of a million Australians will experience PTSD at least once in their lifetime. The condition is a type of anxiety disorder in which sufferers develop unusual responses to help them cope in the aftermath of a traumatic event. Some fail […]
Psychology and Weight Loss Management
Studies show that the average Australian adult is above a healthy weight. Two-thirds of those adults are currently going through some weight loss program. Unfortunately, 40 percent of that lost weight is regained in the first year after losing it. Many people believe that eating less and exercising more will help them with their weight […]
Tips for Helping Your Child Come Out
How Can You Make it Easier for Your Child to Come Out? What do you do if you suspect your child might be LGBTI? That is, that they are attracted to people of the same gender, or to both genders, or their own gender identity differs from how they are labelled? How do you help […]
How to Get the Most From Group Therapy
If you are suffering from a mental illness or trying to overcome an addiction, your doctor probably told you that group therapy is an essential part of your recovery. Group therapy is meant for you to learn how to use other people’s stories to help yourself cope with whatever is going on with you. Here […]
At what point do we need to get a counsellor involved in our marriage?
Working out problems together is one of the most important things you and your partner need to do to strengthen your relationship. Sometimes, however, issues can get too big or complicated to be worked out within your relationship, and you may need some third party help and perspective to help you work out your relationship […]