The Resilient Mind: Welcome

Welcome to this blog …

Which will address many aspects of psychotherapy and hypnotherapy treatable matters

WELCOME!

This, the first in this blog series, will be short and to the point. It is designed to do precisely what its title suggests – to warmly welcome you and to give some insight into what will be covered in future posts.

I trust you will enjoy the blog and be a regular return reader.

If you have suggestions for topics you would like covered in future posts, don’t hold back. By all means, drop me a line via the contact page on this website.

The blog has multiple purposes but the main ones are simply to:

• provide members of the public with up to date knowledge of the mental health challenges faced by an increasing number of people, and with some insights regarding how to deal with those challenges;

• provide members of the medical profession with insights regarding what Brisbane (based) psychotherapy and hypnotherapy services my practice provides;

• provide organisational leaders with knowledge regarding the fast developing corporate responsibilities under the regulations relating to managing workplace psychosocial hazards and risks.

  
  

Issues we will address

In future editions, I will cover in some detail topics including anxiety generally, and also the five main forms of anxiety. I will also delve into what you can do to soften the impact of any anxiety you might from time to time suffer.

In fact, we’ll jump right into that topic in our very next post.

I have already prepared a schedule for the first dozen or so posts in order to logically cover as many aspects as possible of mental health areas that my experience in the world of therapy has informed me people really are interested in. Following is an overview of that schedule of topics:

• What anxiety really is and why it is treatable

• The first session when commencing stress or anxiety and related therapy – what to expect

• Integrated health care – when medicine and psychotherapy work together to improve outcomes

• Managing anxiety before surgery – psychological preparation that supports recovery (prehabilitation)

• When IVF fails repeatedly – understanding the hidden psychological trauma

• Rebuilding after repeated IVF loss

• Performance anxiety in sport -  a clinical perspective

• Organisational burnout versus personal anxiety – understanding the difference

• From severe anxiety to calm functioning – a clinical case study

Future blog posts will be a little longer and be expected to take between 7 and 12 minutes to read. I will be focused on providing as much value as I possibly can in return for you investment of that time.

A Final Reflection

If you are experiencing significant anxiety, be kind to yourself and understand that it is definitely far more common—and far more understandable—than you may realise. All types of people experience anxiety at some time during their lives, and that includes medical doctors, professional people in all fields, in fact, people from all walks of life quietly carry similar anxiety burdens.

The good news is that anxiety is highly responsive to appropriate treatment. With careful psychotherapeutic work, the nervous system can relearn how to become and remain calm, and then the mind can rediscover confidence, and life can begin to feel manageable again.

Seeking help is therefore not a sign of weakness. It is a step toward restoring balance in a system that has been trying, perhaps too hard for too long, to protect you. These are words you might find me repeating throughout the blog series, because they are true, and they are important for anxiety sufferers to understand and accept.

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Future conversations in this series will explore what to expect in a first therapy session, and how psychological care can work alongside medical treatment to support recovery before surgery, during cancer care, and through the complex emotional journey of fertility treatment, among other sometimes troublesome life circumstances.