Why Our Childhood Sets The Scene For Life-Long Relationships
The quality of our foremost relationships in our lives are crucial to all aspects of our adult life. Humans are intrinsically hardwired to survive, and the most powerful drive we have as infants is to form emotional bonds with our primary caregiver so they can help...
Why Our Triggers Are Important
If you’ve gotten past the icky feeling the heading of this post gave you and reading this, then congratulations you have been triggered! Maybe you hold a belief that emotional triggers are bad and you spend a lot of time and energy avoiding them, denying them,...
Holistic Health Interview Series: Brenda Rogers from Quintessence Women’s Health
What My Clients Have Taught Me
I have a very privileged position being a therapist. It is a deeply humbling experience to hear things that clients have never told anyone else, and to hold space for emotions being expressed that have been held back for years. My clients teach me a lot about...
Trauma And The Human Experience
Trauma is often at the root cause of many problems and health issues. Even with the most idyllic childhood, at some point in our journey as humans, we are going to experience some level of distress. Distress can be on a scale from a short, acute episode that is...
Therapy Works And Here Is The Evidence
People spend a lot of time and money dealing with physical symptoms, in order to feel and look better. We tend to trust without question that seeing the doctor for an ailment is going to produce some sort of relief, or cure. We go to the gym and exercise...
Why Psychotherapy is Needed Now More Than Ever If You Suffer From Chronic Health Issues
Sometimes there are moments in life where we get to see glimpses of who we might have been, or could yet be, before the humdrum of day to day life, or ill health takes over and consumes our time, focus and energy. More and more people with chronic health issues...
Important Things You Didn’t Know About Counselling
Have you ever considered attending counselling? What were your reasons for not going through with it? Did you feel that it was too confusing to find the right professional? Or did it feel like it wasn’t for you, or that you could work through it on your own...
In Memorium
**trigger warning** This has been one of the most emotionally difficult weeks of this year. Last Wednesday our house was flooded in the massive Sydney storm which seemed to intensify all its fury in our particular area. But this suddenly paled in comparison to the...
What You Need to Know About Trauma
There are many reasons why my clients choose to start therapy. Once we start talking, it becomes clear that a great number of these reasons are symptoms of a much more destructive root cause. People could virtually go through their whole life with this...