Evoke Counselling and Support Services

14/04/2026

🔆How Evoke Counselling and Support Services can help you. ✔️

✅Counselling Mental Health Support

🔆Upper Coomera , northern Gold Coast and zoom teams or in your home .

✔️Areas of concern; Neuro-affirming , Personality disorders, Grief and loss, Anxiety through disability, growing your self esteem. Identifying barriers.

✅Goal planning

✅Scheduling

✅Advocacy

✔️Jo will help you to learn more about yourself , help you work out what supports are best for your needs. Advocating and liaising with your coordinator if that is something that can help your situation.

✅Improving your life so you can live the life you want.

✔️Paint over, rewrite and renew with Evoke Counselling and Support Services .

🔆Independent Counsellor , Mental Health Support Worker , psychosocial support .

🔆Extensive experience with all types of Disabilities mental and physical. Bipolar schizoaffective Disorder, Autism Spectrum, ADHD,MND, MD, AOD.

🔆Families and Individuals

🔆Registration with ACA Level 2

🔆Please call Jo 0488917098 or Email jostalk@live.com

✅Evoke Counselling and Support Services

02/04/2026

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Life is short we all know this whether consciously or subconsciously. This year I joined a book club and we’ve read a couple of books. We have critiqued them picked them to pieces let our club know what we thought about the writings. Today I started reading the happiest man on earth. There’s a q...

02/04/2026

Have a blessed Easter 🐣

Enjoy time with your precious families and have fun!
Those with young families ;
Plan a few things to do
Easter hunts ( around the house)
Craft activities.
Picnic ( can be a rug on the floor with a movie ).
Movie night with popcorn or favourite snacks.
Dress ups
Dancing moments so the kids get to burn off energy.

🐰 🐰🐣🐣🐇🐇

08/03/2026

💕Happy International Women’s Day 💕

01/03/2026

Do you have a pet ?

Do you know the benefits of having a pet actually affect your physical health and mentally also reduce stress.

Health: Pets reduce stress, lower blood pressure, and help combat loneliness.
Longevity: Dog owners have a 33% lower risk of death after a heart attack.
Socialization: 38% of people strike up conversations while walking their pets.
Wellbeing: 86% of owners report a positive impact.

Picture care of Jo and her pets … Good Morning 🔆
Turbo (white) Benji ( caramel dog) and Lilly ( Ginger cat).

17/02/2026

It seems the year is moving along at a rapid pace. Can we slow things down ?
I believe we can in these ways ;

Ralph Waldo Emerson: "Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience".

Attributing your belief system to this can help. If you are a christian, the bible points out Isaiah 30:15
“For thus says the Lord God, the Holy One of Israel: 'In returning and rest you shall be saved; in quietness and confidence shall be your strength'" suggests that strength comes from quietness and trust, not frantic activity.

What we believe impacts us still. How we approach our beliefs will be the difference to living a life we choose or wafting along with our issues clouding our days.

Taking a softly softly approach helps us process our thoughts any feelings that come up we can address and sit in them for a time. We can then take time and be slow to respond. These steps allow us to be present and aware of ourselves and others.

What do you believe?
What do you value?
These shape your character and allow you to reflect on yourself first and in response to others.
Talk therapy can help you find your flow.

07/02/2026

There is sunshine after the rain 🥰

01/02/2026

How do you feel about the New Year ahead ?
Anxious overwhelm or are you thriving in this first couple of months?

New Year’s resolutions may appear positive in their intention. However can increase, anxiety, and sadness due to expectation. Things like financial strain, and reflection on unmet goals. To foster positive mental health, focus on self-compassion, set flexible, small goals, maintain social connections, and prioritising the keys we expressed the other week like food, sleep and exercise over the resolutions.
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21/01/2026

*MAY TRIGGER SOME TOUGH MEMORIES AND THOUGHTS*

For those that have a diagnosed mental health illness. I have found a way to help a person move in a way that did not feel aggressive, pushy or even that serious.
With clients over the years we changed words like SCHEDULE, PLAN OR EVENTS to KEYS. It made all the difference to a persons wellbeing and set them up to overcome their inner battles with self progress. Each day they would progress through the keys that helped them some times survive the day and or do better than survive. I watched with awe how they smiled at the end of the week.
We then added a scrap book or helped them do a vision book or a creative way to help them further. ( tailored to the person individual )This would then help to implement Beliefs, Values and Character.

YOUR KEYS MAY BE DIFFERENT
These have been the keys to neuridivergent clients and clients with Personality disorders.

M E D I C A T I O N,
F O O D, B R E A K F A S T, L U N C H, D I N N E R
E X E R C I S E
The keys are designed to fit into a key ring and can be hung up somewhere or taken with the client on their day out. I make them up to suit and laminate them with a Carabina clip.

Then we would reflect on the day or the week.
SELF REFLECTIONS;
Have I achieved my daily keys today?
Yes , how does that make me feel?
No, why not? How does that make me feel?
Journal answers daily.
Then Checking answers from week to week in a journal.

14/01/2026

Family and you… Those with neurodivergent family members.
These last couple of weeks of the holidays can be testing.
Simple tips for planning the day.
When planning the day neurodivergently.
I have found over the years of experience it is important to break the day into three areas. Eating, Exercise/active and rest.
Organise two activities morning and afternoon.
Four eating times include protein each meal and snack. Breakfast, morning tea, lunch, afternoon tea and dinner.
If you need guidance please reach out I can help you facilitate a plan.

12/01/2026

Counselling is a helping profession.
Jo loves to help, loves to guide and get alongside.
Evoke Counselling and Support Services helps you to Paint over, rewrite, and renew.

Mental Health & Wellbeing:
Life Events:.
Relationships:
Practical Challenges:

Do you have any questions in any of these areas?