Our relationships with our parents – and often particularly our mothers – shape our personalities and our lives. When it comes to our mums, and all that the mother-child bond entails, the territory can often be fraught. So much can...
Happy Minds blog
Understanding and healing the ‘mother wound’
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Helping kids with anxiety: Tips for parents with anxious children
Read MoreWhen our kids have worries and anxieties, often our first instinct is to step in and ‘fix things’ – to be the knight in shining armour always protecting our children from their fears. Being a safe harbour for our children...
Sex after baby: Tips for postpartum intimacy
Read MoreWhen to start having sex again after delivery is a hot topic (!), but the arrival of a baby can act like a relationship earthquake – your world is shifting, you don’t quite know where you stand, and it can...
Low-level anxiety: What is it and how can I deal with it?
Read MoreIn a covid? post-covid? who-knows-what-will-come-next? kind of world, it is very easy to constantly feel low-level anxiety or worry. Beyond the ‘typical’ issues we may encounter over a lifetime – health complications, relationship concerns, employment problems, moving house, losing a...
Relationship stress after having children: Is keeping romance alive after baby arrives possible?
Read MoreIt may be an understatement to say that being a new parent is both incredible and incredibly hard. And – despite the incredible side of the equation; the incredibly hard portion of new parenting can wreak havoc on even the...
A few words from our Principal Psychologist and Director: juggling parenting and perinatal psychology
Read MoreIt’s no secret that mental health issues have increased during the pandemic. My own client numbers have risen exponentially (so much so that I am on the lookout for superstar mental health professionals to join the Happy Minds team), and...
Rockstar required: exciting job opportunity for a mental health professional
Read MoreAre you a rockstar mental health professional? We’re looking to expand the Happy Minds Psychology team, and we’re wondering if YOU might fit the bill? We are seeking a dedicated, rockstar mental health professional who has an interest in working...
Surrogacy Support Counselling
Read MoreHaving a child through surrogacy is a little like making an omelette – bear with me here – even though you have assembled all the right ingredients, it only takes a little extra heat and it can turn into a...
Becoming or working with a surrogate: surrogacy support counselling and your pre-surrogacy psychological assessment
Read MoreSo, you’ve found your Surrogate or perfect Intended Parent(s) and it feels a bit like you’ve hit the jackpot. Then it dawns on you. You now have to navigate all of the medical, psychological, and legal checks to finally get...
Coping with IVF failure: Tips & advice for when things don’t go to plan
Read MoreUsing any scale of measurement, the process of IVF is a grueling one. All of those hopes and fears, the money spent, the physical processes endured. All focused on one outcome: the positive pregnancy test. So how to cope when...
