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23/10/2025

Did you know that Christmas is only 8 weeks away! if you are looking for something different for a present or some nice self care.

"Elevate Your Holiday with Self Care Therapy - Your Path to Emotional Harmony"

14/10/2025

Hi everyone, if your free, join me tonight, 6pm Western Australia time.

I am running an education session about Emotional Dysregulation and what therapies can help.

I am part of a cool group of hard working people who advocate for business like me! The Business Social help us all link in and stay sane.

Hope to see you later.

Running a small business can feel overwhelming, with long hours, financial pressure, and constant uncertainty. These stressors often lead to emotional dysregulation—difficulty managing emotions that impacts focus, decision-making, and relationships. In this blog, wellbeing mentor Debbie Helen Mole...

26/06/2025

Regulate and Reconnect can now offer Positive Behaviour Support for NDIS clients. My 35 years of experience with disability and mental health has enabled me to develop and implement strategies to understand and address behaviours of concern. By addressing these behaviors the focus is around improving the quality of persons life and greater understanding for family, carers and supports.

23/01/2025

Poly Vagal Therapy and its benefits with emotional dysregulation.

16/10/2024

Are you or someone you know struggling with mental health issues.

I currently have capacity to take on new clients.

I offer many modalities of assessment, treatment and support. My assessments can help differentiate behavioural issues, disability related presentations and mental health.

Here are just a few of this therapies that I can offer:

Cognitive Behavioural Therapy.
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy.
Trauma Therapy.
Integrative Somatic Therapy.
Poly Vagal Therapy.

Plus, many more.

All these services can be delivered online. I can also do home appointments. I reside in Geraldton, AHPRA Registered and fully insured.

If you would like to know more, please message me.

10/10/2024

Do you have a relative who has difficulties expressing themselves vocally. This can be a common issue with people with an Intellectual or Developmental Disability.

If so, I can offer this mode of assessment that has been proven to improve the lives of people with communication difficulties. Talking Mats helps to increase capacity to think about and communicate effectively about things that matter to them.

Talking Mats is extensively researched and is an award-winning communication tool designed by Speech Pathologists.

Talking Mats is a social enterprise whose vision is to improve the lives of people with communication difficulties. Improving communication and improving lives.

06/10/2024

Its Mental Health Awareness Month, I want to share a wonderful therapy that can be delivered on line.

Poly Vagal Therapy is a unique, research and evidence-based treatment that aims to calm the nervous system, bringing emotional regulation and the opportunity to reconnect to others.

This therapy can help with so many issues and is particularly helpful for anyone who is neuro divergent.

If you would like to know more, please contact me. I work with children, youth and adults both with NDIS funding and private clients.

04/10/2024

Hi everyone, have a look at this video on UTube it gives a great insight in Poly Vagal Therapy - The Safe and Sound Protocol. I am trained to deliver this and it is so effective.

This therapy is useful for so many issues, ASD, ADHD, Mental Health presentations, Trauma and much more.

01/01/2024

Regulate and Reconnect is a duel disability service for people with NDIS and private clients.

I practise as a Clinical Nurse Specialist in
Mental Health, Developmental and Intellectual Disabilities. I have been working in NDIS for 4 years and have over 35 years experience with the mental health and disability.

I can offer the following:

Specialised Mental Health Assessments to help clarify and differentiate mental health issues, disability presentations and behavioural concerns.

Assessment modalities for non verbal or limited communication capacity.

NDIS report writing which identifies target areas of need, assessed using evidence based knowledge and best practice principles.

Targeted recovery based interventions which focuses on :

Issues related to your disability.

That helps you pursue your goals and aspirations.

Support to help you undertake activities that will increase your social and
economic participation.

My work is goal focused, with expected outcomes to ensure value for money.

Advice and support around external Mainstream and Community Supports. Their role, access to them and how they can help support clients.

01/03/2022

Top Down - Bottom Up Approaches

The terms top-down and bottom-up refer to the general areas of the brain and where you start in therapy, from the top or the bottom. Different parts of the brain work together to help us use information to survive and thrive in the world

Trauma therapies are often fall into one of two distinct categories, top-down or bottom-up. These terms refer to the emphasis of a given treatment model in targeting two distinct brain regions.

Top-down approach, focuses on starting therapy with the parts of the brain we associate with thinking, speaking, and current emotional awareness. These are the topmost areas of the brain, and include the neocortex, frontal lobes and prefrontal lobes.

Bottom-up approach, focuses on starting therapy with the parts of the brain located toward the base. These are the brain stem areas responsible for reflexes, memories, and automatic survival responses. This area also has a role in learning.

For anyone interested in my trauma informed practices, I offer Trauma Therapy, Somatic Work, Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, Psychotherapy and Poly Vagal Theapy. I also have trained in and have an understanding of Schema Therapy and Internal Family Systems.

01/03/2022

Safe and Sound Protocol - SSP

Nourish and awaken the nervous system. Feel better. Think better. Connect better.

The Safe and Sound Protocol, or SSP, is a non-invasive application of Polyvagal Theory, based on decades of research and developed by Dr. Stephen Porges.

One SSP, 3 Pathways: Connect, Core, Balance

Conditions that the SSP can help:

• Anxiety
• Hyper-vigilance
• Distractible behaviours
• Impulsivity
• Hypo arousal
• Compromised state regulation/poor emotion regulation
• Meltdowns
• Poor eye contact
• Blunted facial expression
• Speech language delays
• Difficulties with listening, learning, and following verbal commands
• Poor digestion
• Sound sensitivities
• Oral motor defensiveness – (ingestion issues)
• Lack of vocal prosody – rhythm, tempo, pitch, pause and tempo