Category: Counselling

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Understanding the ‘Fawn Response’

We are threatened with suffering from three directions: from our own body, which cannot do without pain and anxiety as warning signals; from the external...

Prolonged Grief Disorder: Recognition & Treatment

This article aims to summarise the evidence-based paradigm shift in our understanding of loss and grief (culminating in recent changes to diagnostic criteria for psychological...

Coping with Work Stress

Given our perception that our bosses affect our mental health as much as our partners/spouses (69 percent(1.)), it is unsurprising that the far-reaching impact of...

The Benefits of Mindfulness in Sport and Exercise

Inspired by an 800% increase in academic interest over the last three decades, this article aims to outline the evidence-base for the use of Mindfulness...

PTSD Symptoms in Women: the Unique Signs

With the 2020 Productivity Commission’s Inquiry into Australian Mental Health highlighting the need to address trauma as a major social and environmental determinant of poor...

Psychology and the N.D.I.S.

This article aims to address issues of individual and family access to psychologists for National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS) participants and prospective entrants. Whilst all...

Understanding Gambling Disorder

Within the context of recent debate around regulation of the (arguably profligate) technology-enabled gambling industry, this article aims to summarise the current evidence-base informing therapeutic...

Polyvagal Theory

Unswayed by the popular media frenzy surrounding it, this article aims to describe the fundamentals and utility of Porges’(1.) Polyvagal Theory in enhancing modern evidence-based...

Navigating Family Conflict

Integral to building strong family supports, this article aims to summarise current research and best practice in navigating family conflict. Like all the best families,...

Dealing with Impulsiveness

Impulsiveness (or impulsivity- the terms are used interchangeably), like most human behavioural traits, is distributed continuously in the population and becomes impairing only when expressed...

Sport & Exercise Injury: Recovery & Resilience

Summarising current evidence-based strategies for recovery from injury, this article challenges mainstream views of risk/benefit in the pursuit of wellbeing through sport and exercise. Traditionally...

Building Family Support Systems

Regardless of our definitions of family, kinship, bonding and attachment, this article places parenting at the centre of family support systems and aims to inspire...

Exercise as an Adjunct to Anxiety Treatment

By now most of us have been sold on the health benefits of exercise, including its anxiety-reducing effect. For the ‘worried well’, it’s a 'no-brainer'....

EMDR in the Treatment of Addiction

This article summarises current research into the effectiveness of eye movement desensitisation and reprocessing (EMDR) as a therapeutic approach to substance/behaviour addiction. Redefining addiction Now...

EMDR in the Treatment of Chronic Pain

This article expands on The Role of Psychology in Pain Management, focusing on the use of a particular treatment approach: eye movement desensitisation and reprocessing...

EMDR: the History and Science

It may be argued that two millennia of epistemological apocrypha- from Hippocrates and Plato’s challenge to Aristotelian thinking that the brain is the center of...