Walk and Talk or… Walk or Talk?
I recently read an article about a psychologist who walks with her clients. A kind of walk and talk therapy. I was drawn to it for a number of reasons, not least because I love to walk myself. My own...
Being Positive and Resilient. What does it mean?
Positive Psychology and Resilience Lyn Worsley Clinical Psychologist. Over the past month I had the pleasure of attending two amazing conferences on the other side of the world. The first one was the Pathways to Resilience conference in Halifax, Canada,...
Choose life
CHOOSE LIFE Posted by Joe Alberts, Clinical Psychologist. You are urged to choose life so that you and your children will live. (Deuteronomy 30:19) Even though living life is becoming more challenging and you may feel increasingly out of control,...
What’s so good about exercise anyway?
By Kaitlyn Massey, Psychologist Is anyone else fed up hearing the old message that you need to exercise and eat healthy or else… Or else what? We are swamped with daily messages from magazines and television shows about how to get...
Understanding Mindfulness
Understanding Mindfulness Written By Ivette Moutzouris What is Mindfulness? It is a term that many Psychologists and other health professionals use and it is important to have a basic understanding of it. Mindfulness is “the intentional, accepting and non-judgmental focus of...
The development of “self”
By Lyn Worsley, Clinical Psychologist Over the past weeks I have been reflecting on how we develop our potential and what defines us as unique individuals. The Self in psychology refers to the knowledge and sense of who we are as...
Can I Rewire My Brain?
Written by Ivette Moutzouris This is a really interesting question and the good news is that recent studies suggest that this is very possible. These new discoveries in neuroscience show that the brain is actually “soft-wired”. This means that the...
