Bodhi & Psychology

04/05/2026

The arrival of this epic text to widen your lense and decolonise your practice. Check us out in chapter 12. Michelle Lawrence and I (Averil Cook) discuss the persistence of racism in mental health care in Australia. For all psychologists, social workers and therapists.

29/04/2026

We’re thrilled to welcome Dr Maya Flexer to the Bodhi & Psychology team.

Maya comes from the UK as a highly experienced psychotherapist who has worked with the NHS, the Anna Freud Centre, and has taught internationally.

Maya is experienced working with children, young people, adults and their families.

Maya moves fluidly with relational, psychodynamic and systemic training background, and works with many presentations including trauma, eating disorders, family systems, neruodivergence, FND, cultural issues and disability.

Her books are now open in Leichhardt with after-school availability if you contact us soon. Please book in at info@bodhiandpsychology.com.au

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18/03/2026

Decolonising our therapy also means tuning into the colonisation of our bodies. Creativity is an amazing way to reconnect with our life force and step out of productivity, acquisition and outcome that are the hallmarks of colonial and capitalist value systems. Check out some of the creative deliciousness that flowed from today’s course with Emily -space.com

04/02/2026

Are you a psychologist attempting to navigate a wildly changing and unstable world while keeping up to speed with your competency requirements and the changes to the code of conduct? We at Bodhi and Psychology have a deep appreciation of social justice, cultural needs, human rights and anti oppressive practices combined with deep experience of providing supervision and supervision of supervision. We have experience in working with The Australian Human Rights Commission, NSW health teams, registrars and developing your confidence with the changes to the competencies. Nafisa Choudhury has opened up new space for clinical supervision. Nafisa offers reflective, culturally informed supervision that supports critical & systemic thinking, social justice advocacy with the aim to support clinicians enhance their practice.

04/02/2026

20/12/2025

The universe gifted me a delightful surprise! A Minuchin family therapy techniques skills book spotted in a little free library 🙏

16/12/2025

Holding space for the grief of the Jewish community and the loss of safety felt by all. We are open until the 23rd Dec if support is needed by clinicians or members of the community. Please reach out info@bodhiandpsychology.com.au

07/11/2025

Practicing family therapy and systemic thinking is where so much of my anti oppressive thinking blossomed. Systems thinking gave me a way to understand how context , family dynamics and systems can create “illness” but also how it can liberate. All with out pathologising. This is me today heading back in to UNSW to the Masters of clinical Psychology training program to teach the next generation skills to see beyond diagnosis, to see patterns and to work systemically. If you’d like to learn more about how to think beyond the surface check out the resources on this page and on our website for video trainings, workbooks and up coming events www.bodhiandpsychology.com.au

04/11/2025

We don’t often say this - but we have immediate availability ! Nafisa has some immediate online and in person availability for client work and supervision. Interest areas and experience particularly in Supervision, cultural competencies, neurodiversity, Clin psych Registrar programs and complex clinical cases. Clinical referrals for adults, for identity issues, intergenerational and complex trauma, neurodivergence and family education. Some preferred modalities include Schema, EMDR, family systems, attachment and developmental, relational psychotherapy approaches. You can reach out to us at www.bodhiandpsychology.com.au :)

18/07/2025

This is me chuffed to have signed off with Bloomsbury on our book chapter Decolonising Mental Health with my coauthor Michelle Lawrence today.

This chapter invites us to critically examine the colonial foundations of psychology and reimagine mental health through a lens of justice, cultural safety, and Indigenous knowledges. It critically examines the failing of Australian mental health practices and is a call to unsettle the systems we’ve inherited. Clinical case studies and reflection prompts call therapist to rebuild something more human, more relational, and more inclusive through improved clinical care.

For therapists, educators, and changemakers: if you’ve ever felt the limits of Western frameworks in your work, this is for you. Read this for the slow, necessary work of unlearning and reimagining.

🖋 Chapter: Decolonising Mental Health
📘 In: Aboriginal Social Worker Voices
📍 In press

05/07/2025

This image shared by .union is a great illustration of why therapists need to centre the voices and expertise of Indigenous, CALD, and people of colour when learning about cultural humility and decolonial work. When learning, our job is to 1. Decentre ourselves 2. Centre the knowledge of lives experience and those who are doing the work - POC, disability advocates, lgbtqia+ clinicians 3. Listen, reflect and work through the inevitable discomfort and shame 4. Understand that engaging in this work without doing the inner work can be deeply unsafe for participants