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What is a MindMassage? MindMassage is just another way of looking at counselling. We often treat our bodies to some TLC, either for health reasons or just a treat. So why not care for your mind in the same way. What is Counselling? Counselling is like having a chat with someone. The difference is the [...]
Telephone counselling is simply as it sounds. It’s used by many practitioners and clients where face-to-face counselling for many reasons. Rural People in rural and bush communities often have very limited options when it comes to choosing a counsellor. With phone counselling, it doesn’t matter whether you are in Weipa, Broome, Coober Pedy, Katoomba or [...]
This service offers emotional support to expectant parents, as individuals or together as a couple.
2011
We can offer continuity of care from pre-conception through to the early stages of parenting. Whether you’re a first-timer and an old hand, we welcome you to seek support at this wonderful time. Pregnancy is wonderful phase of life and as with all periods in life, brings about it’s own challenges. Many pregnancies are totally [...]
There is a never-ending debate over whether our minds and emotions contribute to our overall well-being. Here at MindMassage, our philosophy is that our body is a barometer of our emotional well-being. So whether you’ve been diagnosed with an illness or disease, psychological condition (eg depression or anxiety) or just lack energy in which to [...]
If your relationship with a partner or other family members has never hit turbulent times, then you are among the lucky few! Challenges with relationships can haunt people right throughout their adult lives, if they don’t acknowledge and work through them. These can become problematic with life partners, children (incl. adult children), colleagues or friends. [...]
Relationships are somewhat less ‘mechanical’ than a car, though sometimes it may seem that all you ever do is ‘go through the motions’. In order to keep a car on the road, it needs regular feeding (petrol) to go, occasional washing (to look presentable) and occasional some good servicing (to keep it ticking over and [...]
Can a chat with your friends/mates help when feeling stressed or down? Absolutely!! Good friends often help us through tricky patches in our lives. It’s common for people to have created behavioural habits, patterns that are so entrenched that we don’t notice that we do them. Sometimes friends can help, by pointing them out, but [...]
Ever wondered why some many of us Get colds just as we take a holiday? Get a headache when we are stressed? Suffer with tummy ache when nervous [butterflies]? Have recurrent health problems? Couples getting married are said to get cold feet before tying the knot, but have you ever wondered how that saying came [...]
“You and your baby are healthy – that’s all that matters.” How many parents have been haunted by these words? Their whole experience has been summed up by the end result (a healthy child) without acknowledgement of a traumatic journey and process. Sinead Mitchell BSSc Counsellor Experiencing trauma during the pregnancy or birth of your [...]
While sitting in an Active Birth Yoga class, I listened with interest to a lady’s story of enduring 8 years of IVF treatment which never worked, being on the brink of adoption and how she became pregnant without intervention. When sharing this story with others, I repeatedly hear other almost identical stories. This set me [...]