If your child has big feelings, you probably know the moments. The sudden meltdowns. The yelling. The tears that seem to come out of nowhere. The situations that escalate faster than you can respond. And in those moments, it’s not...
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When Your Child Has Big Feelings: How Remote Parental Counselling Can Help You Stay Calm and Connected
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Online Trauma Informed Services: Safe, Compassionate Support From Anywhere
Read MoreNot all trauma looks the same. For some people, it is linked to a specific event — an accident, loss, or medical experience. For others, it is something that built up over time: chronic stress, relationship dynamics, emotional neglect, or...
Attachment and Emotional Regulation in Children: Why It Shapes Your Child’s Brain
Read MoreWhen parents search for an infant mental health psychologist, they are often worried about something deeper than behaviour. It might look like: big emotions that escalate quickly difficulty settling or calming clinginess or withdrawal ongoing anxiety, tantrums, or shutdown What...
Remote Parental Counselling: Support for Parents Raising Neurodiverse Children
Read MoreParenting can be deeply meaningful, but it can also be exhausting and overwhelming. For parents raising neurodiverse children, the demands are often greater. Many families are juggling advocacy, school stress, sensory needs, emotional regulation, appointments, uncertainty, and chronic worry, all...
Postnatal Anxiety Counselling Geelong: When It’s More Than New Parent Worry
Read MoreHaving a baby is often described as a joyful and deeply meaningful experience. Yet for many new parents, the postnatal period can also feel emotionally overwhelming, isolating, and frightening. While some worry is common in early parenthood, persistent anxiety that...
Mindful Parenting: Cultivating Calm in the First Months Postpartum
Read MoreThe first months postpartum are a blur of love, exhaustion and new rhythms, where every cry or cuddle feels like a world of its own. At Happy Minds Psychology in Geelong, we know this season—often called the fourth trimester—can test...
Understanding ARFID: When Picky Eating Becomes a Serious Eating Disorder
Read MoreAs a parent, you might be used to hearing your child say, “I don’t like that” or “I’m not hungry.” It’s common for children to be picky eaters, but when does picky eating become a serious eating disorder? In this...
Understanding Childhood Anxiety: Signs, Causes, and Strategies for Support
Read MoreAnxiety is a normal emotion that we all experience at some point in our lives. However, when anxiety becomes excessive and interferes with daily life, it can be a cause for concern. This is especially true for children, as they...
Dealing With Separation Anxiety in Toddlers
Read MoreThe desperate cling to your clothes and eyes brimming with tears.The screaming tantrums about leaving for childcare.The revolving bedroom door at other people’s houses when they should be sleeping. Dealing with separation anxiety in toddlers can leave you feeling stressed,...
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...
