Our children and youth face many difficulties and sometimes they need a little extra support and assistance. If children are experiencing emotional problems it is imperative to seek early intervention, so that they can learn how to manage their feelings as well as feel a greater sense of control in their world.  Psychologists tend to [...]

Grief is the emotional reaction experienced when we have a significant loss in our life. Grief is experienced differently from one person to another, and there is no right or wrong way to grieve. People cope with their grief in different ways and use various coping strategies to manage their daily lives in the face [...]

There is often a psychological impact when people experience a major illness or injury. The illness or injury may have been life threatening, may have reduced the person’s ability to perform normal tasks, or may have caused significant pain. In the short term, anxiety can often be experienced. There may be uncertainty about treatments and [...]

Eating Disorders include a range of psychological problems that involve persistent and severe concerns around food, weight and body image. Whilst there is a strong focus on these issues in today’s society and the media, people that have an Eating Disorder find it difficult to control their weight-related worries and thoughts, and this problem impacts [...]

Stress is something that all humans experience. Stress occurs when the demands on us outweigh our resources to cope with these demands. Stress can occur in any aspect of our lives, such as work, finances, relationships or health. Usually periods of stress pass naturally and we move on with life. However there are times when [...]

The word trauma is taken from the Greek word for wound. When individuals face a frightening or life-threatening event, there can be an ongoing psychological impact. These symptoms can settle naturally in the weeks following a trauma, as life gets back to normal. However for some people, these symptoms persist and have a significant impact [...]

A cognitive assessment can provide a family, teachers, and health professionals with information on your child’s overall thinking capacity and areas of strengths and weaknesses. It is often used to diagnose an Intellectual Disability, and as a starting-point for identifying appropriate supports for a child having difficulties in the classroom or at home. School Age [...]

Self esteem is how we regard ourselves. People with a healthy or positive self esteem are generally happy and accepting of how they are: they know they have strengths and weaknesses but can be proud of their achievements and are content with who they are as a person. People with low self esteem are generally [...]

While everyone can experience periods of sadness, depression refers to when people feel sad or low most of the time over an extended period of time. Clinical Depression can influence a person cognitively, emotionally and physically. This can impact greatly on a person’s day-to-day life, their ability to engage in simple activities, and how they [...]

As defined by the Oxford dictionary, personal identity is a phenomenological sense of oneself as a separate individual being with a distinctive personality and a ‘true self’ persisting over time; a self image. Individuals can experience psychological distress related to their sense of identity, impacting on their personal contentment, relationships, sense of direction and feelings of [...]

Anxiety is a state of nervousness or fear; it is often experienced as persistent worrying, feeling on edge or apprehensive. Anxiety can be mild and easy to control, but when it is severe it can be debilitating. Anxiety can also take slightly different forms, ranging from specific phobias, to social anxieties, excessive worrying or obsessive [...]