Nest Psychotherapy and Counselling

Nest Psychotherapy and Counselling Based in Southern Highlands NSW offering psychotherapy and counselling to couples and individuals.

Based in Camden and Southern Highlands NSW offering holistic counselling and psychotherapy. We have a fabulous multidisciplinary team of mental health professionals and we are an LGBTQIA affirming practice � �

Please reach out for a confidential chat with our practice manager, Brooke if you would like to talk more.

17/05/2026

This week’s medicine is Temperance.

Not everything is asking you to choose a side.
Not every path requires certainty before movement.
Not every truth is singular.

Temperance reminds us that we can hold complexity without collapsing into black and white thinking. One foot in the water. One foot on the sand. Different paths can both hold beauty, growth and reward.

The message beneath the medicine is the Nine of Pentacles — abundance, connection, nourishment, the deep exhale that comes when we stop fighting ourselves long enough to receive what’s already trying to grow.

But it may not feel peaceful at first.
The Five of Wands says this could feel internally conflicted. Like tension between what you’ve always believed is “right” and what might actually be possible if you softened your grip on certainty.

This week asks:
Can you trust yourself enough to hold nuance?
Can you allow more than one possibility to exist?

16/05/2026

🌈 Today is IDAHOBIT — the International Day Against Homophobia, Biphobia, Interphobia and Transphobia.

And while inclusion should never be reserved for one day, today is a reminder that safety is something we create in the small moments, everyday interactions, and the spaces we build around us.

Here are 5 ways we can make our spaces feel safer, more affirming and more human for LGBTQIA+ folks:

💗 Be curious about folks and then LISTEN
💗 Don’t make assumptions about identity, pronouns or relationships
💗 Make your support and inclusion visible
💗 Speak up when harmful comments or “jokes” are made
💗 Believe people when they tell you who they are

As a therapist, I know that healing and connection can only truly happen where people feel emotionally safe enough to be fully themselves. Every one of us has the capacity to help create spaces where people feel more seen, respected and valued.

Not perfectly.
Just intentionally. 🌈

***r Belonging Safety Neuroaffirming RelationshipHealth

15/05/2026

Ever found yourself wondering whether your relationship is falling apart…or whether your hormones, ADHD, and nervous system are staging a full-scale coup?😅

Perimenopause has a way of turning up the volume on everything.

The mental load feels heavier.
Your patience gets shorter.
Your brain feels like it has 47 tabs open.
And the relationship patterns you used to manage suddenly feel impossible to ignore.

If you’re also neurodivergent, the impact can be even more intense.

As oestrogen shifts, dopamine shifts too. That can affect focus, memory, motivation, emotional regulation, and your capacity to keep doing life the way you always have.

What often looks like “the relationship is the problem” may actually be something much more complex.

A biological shift.
A neurological shift.
A relational shift.

All happening at once.

This doesn’t mean your relationship is doomed.

It may mean that the systems, roles, and expectations that once worked are no longer sustainable.

And that can be the beginning of something important.

A re-evaluation.
A restructuring.
A much lower tolerance for bu****it.
And a stronger pull toward what actually feels true.

If this season has left you questioning yourself, your desire, your relationship, or your sanity, you are far from alone.

Sometimes the most powerful thing we can do is understand the bigger picture before making life-changing decisions.

Read the full blog via the link below:
https://nestcounselling.com.au/the-perfect-storm-peri-adhd-love/

14/05/2026

A few weeks ago during our trip to Melbourne I was talking to my son, daughter and husband about the need for us to all be feminist, to all be aware of the patriarchy, and the incomprehension around the deaths of so many women at the hands of intimate partners.

The She Matters Mural is dedicated to the 203+ women killed by an intimate partner since 2024.

I’m trying to raise kids who understand this.
And be in a relationship where we can talk about it honestly.

Not defensively. Not dismissively.
Honestly.

Because the reality is confronting.

203+ women killed by an intimate partner since 2024.

It’s not distant.
It’s not rare.
It’s not “other people.”

The She Matters mural holds their names, their lives, their stories.

And at home, we keep having the conversations.
Even when they’re uncomfortable.
Especially then.

Because awareness matters.
Accountability matters.
She matters.

09/05/2026

The Relationship Nest guidebook is a place to start when something in your relationship isn’t sitting right, but every attempt to talk about it seems to go nowhere.

Not broken.
Not beyond repair.
Just caught in patterns that keep repeating.

This is why I created it.
It’s not therapy.
And it’s not a quick fix.

It’s a guided way to slow things down and actually see what’s happening between you, without things escalating or shutting down.

Inside, you’ll gently work through:
• how your patterns form (and why they keep repeating)
• what’s really sitting underneath the tension
• how to pause things before things spiral
• ways to reconnect that actually feel doable in real life

It’s the kind of work I do with couples every day, just made accessible in your own time at home.

If you’ve been meaning to “do something” about your relationship but keep putting it off…this is a steady place to begin.

Link HERE👉https://nestcounselling.com.au/product/relationship-workbook-for-couples/

Parent guilt has a way of getting really loud.It tells you you’re not doing enough.That you’ve got it wrong.That everyon...
05/05/2026

Parent guilt has a way of getting really loud.

It tells you you’re not doing enough.
That you’ve got it wrong.
That everyone else seems to be handling this better than you.

But guilt isn’t always truth.
More often, it’s a signal.

A signal that you care.
That your values matter.
That you’re trying to show up well for your kids in a world that asks a lot of you.

The problem is…when that care turns into pressure, it can quickly become self-criticism.

And that’s the piece we want to gently shift.

Because your kids don’t need perfect.
They need repair.
They need you coming back, owning your impact, and staying connected.

If this one hit a bit close to home, you’re not alone in it💚

What’s one moment this week where you can choose repair over perfection?

16 years of being a Mum. Of relearning all I thought I already knew, of restructuring my internal and external world for...
03/05/2026

16 years of being a Mum. Of relearning all I thought I already knew, of restructuring my internal and external world for the better.

God I love her.

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