Time blindness is the difficulty of sensing or managing time, where hours vanish, tasks stretch, or appointments arrive too soon. Common among neurodivergent people or those under stress, it stems from differences in attention, emotion, and executive function. Rather than laziness, it reflects how our brains perceive time. External cues, like light, music, or visual timers, help make time visible, while transition buffers and tools like “Now vs. Next” boards support smoother task shifts. By tuning awareness and externalizing time, we can work with time’s rhythm instead of fighting it.

Conversations can tangle, especially if we have a history that includes challenges with trauma or neurodivergence. CLARITY offers a framework to support connection: Context, Literal language, Assume intent/complexity, Reflect, Invitations, Time, Yes/No choices. It helps us notice what’s beneath words (needs and feelings) to try small, paced adjustments at home, work, friendships, and parenting.

Healing doesn’t follow a set number of sessions. Much of it happens between appointments through reflection, practice, and real-life change. Funding limits are administrative, not a measure of your need or internal worth. Lasting growth comes from pacing support, clarifying your priorities, and planning your personal therapy journey with intention, flexibility, and compassion.

When life feels fast and you’re anxious, numb or zoned out, grounding helps you come back to the present. It’s a brief, chosen pause. Using your senses, movement, or orienting facts, it can help you steady your nervous system, reduce panic and dissociation, and restore choice. It isn’t a cure or one-size-fits-all; adapt it to your needs, practise when calm, and seek support if distress persists.

Many of us turn to AI chatbots for emotional support due to their instant, non-judgmental replies. While helpful for journaling or learning coping skills, AI can’t replace therapy or social supports. AI may create a response that sounds empathic yet provides unsafe or inaccurate advice, especially during a crisis. Real healing requires human connection, accountability, and professional care.

Focusing on what your body can do, rather than how it looks, supports genuine self-worth, resilience, and wellbeing. Shifting from external validation to internal motivation builds body trust and self-compassion, helping you pursue sustainable health through values-based goals, nourishment over food rules, and discovering what feels good for you.

Depression can feel like being stuck in a draining loop of low mood, fatigue, and disconnection. Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) helps map this cycle between thoughts, feelings, and actions. By recognising the cycle we can take small, compassionate steps to restore balance, connection, and hope through as a part of evidence-based, trauma-informed care and build a way back to ourselves.

When overwhelm hits, it’s not weakness, it’s our nervous system shifting into survival mode. Polyvagal Theory explains why we can’t think, talk, or “just relax” when emotional “big dogs” appear and our body shifts into fight, flight or freeze. Calm comes from the body first: slower breathing, gentle movement, tiny glimmers of safety, and steady connection can help us return to balance.

Each New Year often brings the urge to make big, sweeping changes, and we want to reinvent ourselves overnight. However, lasting change doesn’t come from drastic resolutions, it grows through small, meaningful steps grounded in self-compassion and aligned with personal values. When we focus on gentle, achievable actions, we build confidence, emotional safety, and genuine growth that can endure.

Christmas in Australia is often portrayed as joyful and connected, yet for many, it brings loneliness, grief, or overwhelm. Social pressures, sensory overload, and painful memories can heighten distress. If this is your experience, you’re not alone, these feelings are human. This season, honour your emotions, redefine traditions, and nurture gentle connections that bring comfort and authenticity.

The holidays bring warmth and connection, but also change and unpredictability. When routines pause, support systems quiet, we risk experiencing a rise in our emotions. Having a plan helps keep us steady, like a map for our nervous system, it gives us direction. Practising distress tolerance and grounding tools between sessions can help to build calm, resilience, and emotional balance.

The holidays can heighten relationship strain as financial stress, family demands, sensory overload, and unmet expectations build up. Small tensions may grow under pressure, leaving couples distant or irritable. Shared planning, open reflection, and small repair gestures help reconnect partners. Remember, stress and disconnection is human, not failure. If safety is a concern, seek confidential support (1800 RESPECT).

Have you ever left a conversation feeling confused, guilty, or doubting your own reality? You may have encountered manipulative patterns like gaslighting, DARVO, or FOG. These tactics are used to distort truth, shift blame, and erode self-trust. Recognising these behaviours helps you set boundaries, rebuild your confidence, and restore emotional clarity and safety in your relationships.

Christmas can magnify both joy and loneliness. Many Australians feel the gap between connection we crave and what’s real. The Circle of Closeness helps us reflect on safety, boundaries, and where to invest our emotional energy. This season, focus on gentle connection, prioritising calm, authenticity, and self-care over obligation.

Personalised therapy recognises that one size never fits all. Every person has a their own unique experiences, identities, and needs, so therapy must adapt. It needs to respect your pace, culture, and goals to be effective. Using evidence-based approaches like strategies should be collaborative, flexible, and trauma-informed designed to fit you, not expecting you to bend the other way around.

Generosity supports wellbeing when it’s chosen freely and aligns with our values. Research shows mindful giving and gratitude can strengthen connection and reduce stress, but over-giving from guilt or pressure can cause fatigue. True generosity includes boundaries, self-care, and respect for cultural and personal differences.

Relationships can feel like a dance, sometimes flowing, sometimes out of step. Through Dialectical Behaviour Therapy (DBT), we can learn the art of balance: communicating our needs clearly, setting respectful boundaries, and nurturing genuine connection. With mindfulness, validation, and compassion, we can stay kind without losing ourselves, finding rhythm in both closeness and space.

Sometimes we “win”… but at what cost? Every choice we make spends our time, energy, money or spoons. Before fighting a battle, pause and ask yourself "What value am I protecting, and what is this costing me?" By making a choice that is consciously line with our values (fairness, peace, connection, rest) can helps us spend our limited resources wisely and improve our wellbeing.

Schemas are deep patterns of thinking, feeling, and behaving that shape how we see ourselves and relate to others. They form in our past, based on how our emotional needs were met, or unmet. When needs are met, we build healthy schemas; trust, confidence, self-worth. When unmet, maladaptive schemas form, but with awareness and support, these patterns can be understood and changed.