Once you have decided what type of therapist you need, the next challenge is finding the right fit. This article explores how your GP, online directories, and the therapeutic relationship can guide you toward a therapist who feels safe, supportive, and appropriate for your needs.
Choosing a therapist can feel confusing. This evidence-based guide explains the differences between counsellors, psychologists, and psychiatrists in Australia, helping you decide what type of support may best suit your needs.
Clarifying what matters, turning values into action, and practising stick to itiveness can help create steadiness in life. This article explores how values based actions, scheduled into everyday routines, support resilience even when motivation and emotions fluctuate.
Affirmations can be like tiny chocolate bars, lovely but short-lived. For real psychological nourishment, they need to be grounded in reality, aligned with your values, and transformed into action. Learn how to build affirmations into meaningful change.
Gentle grounded truth can be more helpful than overly positive reassurance when someone is distressed. This article explores why realistic, compassionate responses often support emotional regulation and resilience more effectively than forced positivity.
Therapists often carry the cost of empathy in their own nervous system. This article explores autonomic nervous system load, burnout risk, and why practising evidence based regulation strategies supports sustainable therapeutic work and effective co regulation in session.
Selective mutism is an anxiety based condition where a person cannot speak in certain situations despite speaking freely in safe environments. Psychology offers gentle, evidence based approaches that support confidence, communication, and meaningful participation in life.
Psychology explores how the mind makes meaning and how our interpretations shape emotional, physical, and social wellbeing. Understanding our inner processes helps us live with greater balance, intention, compassion, and connection.
David Hennessy is a Varsity Lakes clinical psychologist who combines years of therapeutic experience with a grounded trades background to offer practical, person centred, evidence based care. His approach supports people to understand their internal world, strengthen resilience, and move toward a more balanced and meaningful life.