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Clinical Psychology & Counselling • Mental Health & Wellbeing Programs • Relationship Counselling

17/08/2025

“[Mental] health is the ability to stand in the spaces between realities without losing any of them.” – Philip Bromberg

A lot of therapy is about learning to live with complexity.
We can feel strong and fragile at the same time.
We can love people deeply and still feel hurt by them.
We can experience pain from the past and still create something new in the present.

Mental health isn’t about getting rid of the parts of ourselves that don’t “fit.”

It’s about the capacity to hold them together and "stand in the spaces".

14/07/2025

This is Dr Brenton Russell.
He is our Head Clinician, Practice Director and a really great man.
Maitri Wellbeing would not be all it is without his commitment to clinical excellence and contemporary and relevant practice.
Outside the practice walls, he is a fifteen year military veteran, a kind and dedicated father and supportive and compassionate husband.
An engineer in a previous life and the principal of his own management consulting company for over ten years, Brenton’s professional expertise covers so much diversity and background.
He has a love of martial arts and he works harder for community values than anyone we know.

This all flows into his clinical psychology skill as he draws on all his lived experience so our clients can feel the genuine therapeutic connection.

There is a reason we were nominated for the BE Bendigo Business Excellence Awards and his integrity to Maitri Wellbeing and the people of our region is one of them.

01/07/2025

Maitri Wellbeing is excited to be a finalist in the Be.Bendigo Business Awards for 2025 in the category for Diverse & Inclusive Workplace.

We are really proud to be included amongst the other finalists in this category, a rather esteemed list of peers out there ‘doing the work’.

Best we dust off the evening gowns and dinner jackets…

09/06/2025

This week’s whiteboard quote:

"Growth involves tolerating more reality, more complexity, and more feeling." — Nancy McWilliams

It’s not always about fixing or simplifying life. Sometimes real growth means being able to stay present with the challenges, the contradictions, and the emotions we once had to avoid.

18/05/2025

"What is split off, not felt, remains the same. When it is felt, it changes."
— Eugene Gendlin

This week's quote was chosen because it says something important about how change happens.

Feeling what we’ve avoided isn’t easy—but it’s often the turning point.

04/05/2025

Saw this quote recently and scribbled it up today on the whiteboard here in the practice:

"We suffer not from our feelings, but from the lies we tell ourselves to avoid them." – Jon Frederickson

Sometimes we get it backwards.

It’s not the feelings themselves that undo us—it’s the exhausting work of keeping them locked up, edited, spun, or shoved aside. We learn to tell ourselves half-truths and comforting stories. But somewhere in that process, we lose contact with what’s real.

It stuck with me. Maybe it’ll land with you too.

29/04/2025

A few weeks ago, we received an email to let us know we have been nominated for the 2025 Bendigo Bank and Be. Bendigo Business Excellence Awards in the category: Community Minded, Diverse and Inclusive Workplace.

It’s really humbling to be regarded by our community in this way 🙏
Best of luck to all the applicants.
Sol, Brenton and Team Maitri 🙌

27/04/2025

Waiting Room Quote of the Week:

"The curious paradox is that when I accept myself just as I am, then I can change."
— Carl Rogers

Acceptance and change are not opposites — they are two parts of the same unfolding.

Growth often begins not with striving, but with a quiet willingness to see ourselves clearly.

13/04/2025

Waiting Room Wisdom!

"Life moves pretty fast. If you don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it."
— Ferris Bueller, unofficial mindfulness guru of the '80s

Sometimes the most profound life advice comes not from ancient philosophers or textbooks, but from a teenage truancy expert in a leopard print vest.

Stop, take a breath, and look around — even if it’s just while you’re waiting for your session 😊

06/04/2025

🌿 "Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished." – Lao Tzu 🌿

In today's busy world, it can be easy to feel pressured to keep pace with constant demands, tasks, and expectations. However, consider that growth, healing, and meaningful change often happen gradually and naturally, in their own time.

Try slowing down, breathing deeply, and trusting your own natural rhythm. Like nature itself, maybe you don't need to hurry to achieve true progress.

27/03/2025

You don’t escape the truth by avoiding it. You carry it — often for years.

This week’s waiting room quote invites us to pause and notice:
☁️ What are we still holding that we haven’t fully faced?
🪶 What might lighten if we gave it space to be felt?

By gently turning toward what’s real, we discover what becomes possible on the other side.

03/02/2025

✨ "We don’t see things as they are, we see them as we are." – Anaïs Nin ✨

Our experiences, emotions, and past relationships shape the way we interpret the world around us. In therapy, we often explore these lenses—helping to uncover patterns, shift perspectives, and create space for change.

If you’ve ever felt stuck in the same thoughts or reactions, remember: awareness brings choice, and choice brings change. 💡

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82 Sternberg St
Bendigo, VIC
3550

Opening Hours

Monday	9am - 5pm
Tuesday	9am - 5pm
Wednesday	9am - 5pm
Thursday	9am - 5pm

Telephone

+61493655050

Website

http://www.maitriwellbeing.org/

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