Parents do not like to see their children distressed or unhappy. However, most parents would agree that children need to learn to work through some challenging feelings to develop into adulthood with resilience and sound coping mechanisms.
Believe it or not, more and more Australians are recognising the workplace as somewhere they can seek out mental health support. This is because more and more employers are offering mental wellness benefits through something we call an Employer Assistance Program, or EAP. At Nexus Psychology we’ve been proud to offer this service for about six years at a range of sites in the Melbourne area.
In 2008 Nexus clinical psychologist Dr Roni Kabillo was interviewed for a story about online addiction by Victoria’s The Age newspaper. At the time it was apparent there was an emerging phenomenon that was growing in proportion to the gathering momentum of the internet. Mental health workers, including Roni...
Anxiety based conditions have become popular psychological and sociological media topics this year, a trend that has revealed just how many people do suffer from the gripping social fear known as Social Anxiety, Social Phobia and Social Anxiety Disorder.
Article written by Sally Websiter Art’s healing power is a popular subject these days. Most recently the astonishingly well received colouring book trend has brought attention to creating a calm mind through immersing oneself in a sea of meticulously penned colour. On a teaching level, events like the first-time conference collaboration between The New Zealand […]
People are confronted with difficult and complicated situations daily and it is normal to feel anxious during these times. It may occur during a life-changing occasion like a wedding, in the middle of an interview for that coveted job opening or while closing an important business deal. And it could strike during more ordinary circumstances like meeting someone for the first time or simply when your name gets called to participate in class or even while waiting for a loved one to get home safely at the end of the day.