The Neurotherapy Clinic Victoria

17/12/2025

Children learn from parents. What we do, what we say, how we respond, and where we place our priorities.

Some things to consider:
- What messages do we send with our own device use?
- How do we regulate our emotions in front of them?
- What do we allow them to help us do when they are young, and what do we tell them they cannot do?
- Do we prioritise our own health?
- How much do we prioritise time with them?
- Do we demonstrate good communication skills?

The most important question is: What do we want them to learn from us?

17/12/2025

If life were like a game, what skills and stats are you raising?

Reading and study not only builds a skill but activates a buff on the mind.

This buff strengthens attention, memory, and the ability to think ahead.
Over time, these gains quietly increase INT (intelligence) and WIS (wisdom), while also supporting MP (mental health) through improved emotional regulation and problem solving. And as you engage different topics new skills can be unlocked.

IRL there is no notification to highlight skill improvements or level ups.
Instead, the stat gains build slowly often unnoticed.

As these stats increase, it becomes easier to manage stress, adapt to challenges, and apply skills across different areas of life. Skills unlocked through learning remain available long after the task is finished.

Drawing, music, coding, languages, math, or sciences. What skills are you building through repeated practice?

# Melbourne

14/12/2025

If life were like a game, what skills and stats are you raising?

Physical activity activates a broad buff across both body and mind.
Movement improves strength, coordination, and stamina, while also supporting emotional regulation and stress recovery. This would raise STR, DEX, STA, HP, MP, CHA, and improve the skill level.

IRL there is no visible progress bar for these effects. The gains accumulate in the background, making the reward difficult to notice at times.

As your stats improve, your brain becomes better equipped to handle pressure, social interaction, and overcome challenges. Skills developed through movement often transfer into other areas of life.

Consistent play keeps the buff active.

What activity makes you feel like you've received a buff?

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10/12/2025

If life were like a game, what skills and stats are you raising?

Imagine every action you take influences your skills and stats.
- Being kind and respectful can raise your charisma and MP (mental health).
- Being active raises your strength, stamina, dexterity, HP and provides skills.
- Doing your homework and reading books builds your wisdom, intelligence, luck, MP, and can provide skills.
- Scrolling social media reduces your MP, intelligence, strength, stamina max, wisdom, and charisma. It provides status debuffs. Many video games and binging tv shows can do the same.

The more time you spend in each activity the greater the impact to stats and skills.

Now what stats are you going to raise tomorrow? What skills would level up if you spent as much time practicing them as you do on devices?

08/12/2025

The brain is not a machine, yet it sometimes acts like one. When pressure builds, systems slow down, focus drifts, and performance drops.

Neurotherapy helps the brain regain its efficiency so attention feels sharper, stress feels lighter, and thinking becomes clearer.

Whether you are preparing for a major sporting event, studying for exams, or navigating demanding corporate deadlines, a bit of maintenance can make a big difference.

Contact me to explore how Neurotherapy can support optimal performance.

04/12/2025

Just as coaching helps children improve in sport or music, some need coaching for the skills inside the brain.

Neurotherapy does not work from labels. Instead, we look at disruptions in the functional areas that shape attention, mood, emotional regulation, anxiety, reactivity, and decision making. When the disruptions are reduced and the pathways are strengthened, children can learn skills that once felt challenging.

Skills grow when the right systems are supported, including nudging neuroplasticity into action.

02/12/2025

Another comment I regularly hear from clients, especially about their children, is that the changes from Neurotherapy can seem small at first.

A slight increase in capacity in the classroom often means less overwhelm, fewer after-school meltdowns, and improved engagement. With better engagement comes confidence, and confidence accelerates progress.

Better sleep supports reduced irritability, clearer communication, and a greater ability to regulate through the day.

Less sensory overwhelm allows more information to be processed and reduces discomfort. This frees up energy for social skills, attention, and learning.

Anxiety, attention, impulse control, emotional regulation, overwhelm, or sensory difficulties. Sometimes the brain just needs support in the right direction, and a few small shifts can create space for big leaps.

If you would like to explore how this support might look for your child, feel free to reach out.

02/12/2025

A month where exams wrap up, results arrive, school winds down, shopping centre's get hectic, and frustrations can build faster than we realise.

With the silly season well underway, let’s keep our wits about us and channel any misadventures into the elf-on-the-shelf antics, not onto the roads.

Take care of yourselves and each other as we move into this busy time of year.

01/12/2025

Australia’s upcoming social media ban for children under 16 is creating a lot of discussion.

The media is rampant with dissenting views on the ban, from concerns the ban will create withdrawal symptoms and isolation, those who are against it as it is a tool to regulate their children, and others who support the changes for the mental wellbeing and safety.

What is missing from the national conversation is education.

We cannot rely on restrictions alone to create healthy digital behaviour. Children, teens, and parents need to understand how social media and broader screen use shape the developing brain, influence attention, and affect emotional regulation. Because it doesn't help a child regulate, it numbs the emotion so they do not learn how to regulate, while enforcing a behaviour that is not conducive to good mental health.

If you would like to know mire about this, I discuss the research and reasons for the impacts in my 1 hour webinar on screen effects is available through the Social Work Academy. It explores what is happening in the brain, why these changes matter, and how to support healthier habits.

Or book in a time to have a conversation

View the recording here:
https://www.socialworkacademy.com.au/screen-effects/register/

26/11/2025

For young children, a small experience or feeling can be no different to a pebble blocking the path of a wheel. It may feel enormous and impossible for them to move past, even though it appears minor to others.

Worry thoughts, sensory overwhelm, anxiety, emotional regulation challenges, sleep disruption, or general discomfort can all act like little pebbles that interrupt a child’s learning.

Neurotherapy seeks to identify this pebble and reduce its impact, creating space for a child’s brain to begin the learning processes that were previously inhibited. And just as a tiny pebble can feel huge when it stops a wheel, small early changes can feel significant to the child and their family when they reflect on the progress made over time.

Reach out to discuss whether Neurotherapy could support your child.

24/11/2025

I often hear this from clients once they start noticing the benefits.

There are a few reasons why Neurotherapy isn't usually suggested right off the bat:
- It's still considered a bit experimental, even after years of research and application, which means other therapies should be explored first.
- Finding skilled and certified practitioners can be a challenge in certain locations.
- A lot of professionals might not have come across this approach, and some don't actively pursue the chance to learn about it.

19/11/2025

For those who have heard me speak about this in person or via a webinar, here is yet another study identifying a strong correlation between screen use (type and time) and behavioral and functional disruptions.

📱 Digital Tech & Young Kids: Linked to Behavioral & Emotional Challenges
New research examining over 83,000 children aged 4–6 across 20 countries found that more time on screens—from TVs to tablets—is associated with increased social, emotional, behavioral, and relationship difficulties . While this doesn’t prove cause and effect, it highlights that what kids use and how much matters.
🔗 https://medicalxpress.com/news/2025-04-digital-technology-linked-young-kids.html