10 March 2016
Major Depressive Disorders and Increased Risk of Suicide
The Sydney Morning Herald today featured an article on the significant rise in suicide rates in Australia over the past 12 months. 12 per 100,000 people in 2014 committed suicide...
18 January 2016
Understanding and Managing Stress
Stress is something that most of us experience at times. It is often described as feeling overloaded, tense and worried or wound-up.
Due to perceived or actual stressful...
16 December 2015
Managing the Christmas Period
Christmas can be a challenging time for many of our clients so we thought we would put a list of recommendations together to help you enjoy the Christmas break.
1. Schedule...
24 November 2015
How to Be More Grateful – It Will Improve Your Happiness!
With the mounting number of stressors in our lives it is understandable that we are vulnerable to being goal oriented and committed to working towards new material possessions for...
4 November 2015
How to move on: do you need to let go first? By Mary Lamia, Ph.D.
Maybe you’ve considered pursuing a new relationship. However, how can you move on if you’re still obsessing about your last relationship or distressed over what will never be?...
26 October 2015
SUPPORT WE NEED WHEN FEELING DEPRESSED
Our need for connection and love is just as fundamental as our need for food, water, and shelter,” writes clinical psychologist Lee H. Coleman, Ph.D, in his book Depression: A...
21 October 2015
Willpower and Self-Control
The two strengths that scientists have discovered improve success in life are the constructs of intelligence and self-control. To some extent our natural intelligence is unchangeable,...
6 October 2015
The Second Brain
Recent research has indicated that the gut may be our ‘second brain’ and be strongly linked to psychological functioning and mental health issues such as depression and anxiety....
21 September 2015
Homesickness or AKA Adjustment Disorder
Travelling back home this week it got me thinking about homesickness and adjustment. I currently have quite a few patients from the UK or adolescents in college/university who suffer...
21 September 2015
The wonderful world of psychological Podcasts
I have recently discovered the wonders of the world of psychological Podcasts. I admit that I am slightly behind the times in this discovery but feel that for other technologically...