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The Bigger Picture Clinic, 214 Glen Huntly Road Elsternwick, Melbourne (2025)

04/10/2025

Healing isn’t a finish line, it’s a lifelong unfolding.
It’s an ongoing process of awareness, release, and growth.

When old wounds resurface, it doesn’t mean you’ve gone backwards. It often means you’re meeting a deeper layer of yourself and this time with more tools, compassion, and strength than before.

As a therapist, this theme deeply resonates with me. I see every day how healing evolves, it doesn’t repeat the same pain, it expands into new dimensions of growth.

With the right support; therapy, bodywork, neuroscience, and integrative approaches. Recovery becomes quicker, and our capacity to grow continues to deepen.

I’m really looking forward to hearing Frank Anderson speak on this topic at the PESI Psychotherapy Networker Conference next week in Anaheim, California.

21/09/2025

So many of us move through life on autopilot, repeating old patterns without even realising it. These patterns can feel like “just me” — but often, they are learned responses from past experiences.

Patterns often show up as:
• Always putting others first and feeling resentful later
• Avoiding conflict at all costs, even when it means silencing your needs
• Choosing partners who feel familiar but repeat the same cycles
• Feeling “not good enough” no matter how much you achieve
• Lashing out when overwhelmed, then feeling regret

It’s easy to believe these habits and reactions are simply who we are. But often, they’re old coping strategies learned to keep us safe.

Therapy creates a safe space to pause, notice, and gently face those patterns. When you bring them into the light, you begin to see that they are not your identity — they are simply old survival strategies. And the beautiful part? They can change.

Facing what feels uncomfortable is the first step toward freedom, choice, and a more authentic version of you.

The Bigger Picture Clinic is here to walk alongside you as you explore, heal, and create new ways of being.

20/09/2025

So many of us move through life on autopilot, repeating old patterns without even realising it. These patterns can feel like “just me” — but often, they are learned responses from past experiences.

Patterns often show up as:
• Always putting others first and feeling resentful later
• Avoiding conflict at all costs, even when it means silencing your needs
• Choosing partners who feel familiar but repeat the same cycles
• Feeling “not good enough” no matter how much you achieve
• Lashing out when overwhelmed, then feeling regret

It’s easy to believe these habits and reactions are simply who we are. But often, they’re old coping strategies learned to keep us safe.

Therapy creates a safe space to pause, notice, and gently face those patterns. When you bring them into the light, you begin to see that they are not your identity — they are simply old survival strategies. And the beautiful part? They can change.

Facing what feels uncomfortable is the first step toward freedom, choice, and a more authentic version of you.

The Bigger Picture Clinic is here to walk alongside you as you explore, heal, and create new ways of being.

18/09/2025

We are very excited that Shoshana has added a new day to the clinic. She will now have availability on Thursdays starting in October.

Clinical Psychologist (BSc, GradDipPsych, MPsychClin)

At the heart of Shoshana’s work is a simple, profound truth: healing happens through connection.

With 15 years of experience across public mental health, chronic pain clinics, neuropsychology, children’s services, and private practice, Shoshana brings both deep expertise and a warm, engaging approach. She works with children, teens, and adults, supporting them through challenges such as anxiety, trauma, chronic health conditions, parenting struggles, and the complex transitions of adolescence.

Shoshana is particularly interested in the ways trauma can live in the body, manifesting as stress, pain, or illness. She uses trauma-informed and body-based approaches, alongside Internal Family Systems (IFS), attachment-based therapies, and creative modalities such as art, play, movement, humour, and sand-play.

Her sessions offer a safe, compassionate space where clients can:

Feel truly seen, heard, and understood

Process and integrate difficult experiences

Reconnect with their inner resources and sense of self

Build stronger relationships with their children, families, and communities

Whether working with a child facing separation anxiety, a teenager overwhelmed by social pressures, or an adult navigating burnout or chronic pain, Shoshana tailors her approach to each person’s unique story. She believes therapy is not about quick fixes, but about restoring connection, building resilience, and supporting lasting change.

01/09/2025

🌸✨ Spring Equinox ✨🌸

The Spring Equinox is here — a moment of perfect balance, when day and night stand equal. It marks a turning point: clearing out the heaviness of winter and welcoming in light, growth, and new beginnings.

This is the season to create space — in your home, in your body, and in your mind. Just as nature is blossoming, you too can step into alignment and renewal.

Now is the perfect time to begin your therapy journey, book a hypnosis session, or receive the grounding support of shiatsu. These practices help you clear what no longer serves you and invite in clarity, balance, and calm.

✨ Make space for you.
✨ Restore balance.
✨ Step into this new season with intention.

The Equinox is your reminder: healing starts when you give yourself the room to grow.

31/08/2025

Today, I invite you to pause,to honour a day that means so much to me – International Overdose Awareness Day.

Held every year on August 31st, this is the world’s largest campaign to end overdose, remember without stigma those we’ve lost, and support the families and friends who carry the weight of grief.

The theme for 2025 is “One Big Family” – a reminder that we are stronger when we stand together.

At its core, International Overdose Awareness Day asks us to remember:
• Overdose is preventable.
• Solutions already exist – we must use them.
• Punishment doesn’t heal; compassion does.
• Human rights, dignity, and access to care are essential.
• It takes all of us, as a community, to end overdose.

One of the many reasons The Bigger Picture Clinic was created was out of my own grief – losing people I loved and clients I deeply cared for. Every 4 hours, a life is lost to overdose. That’s why breaking the stigma and keeping these conversations alive matters so much.

Addiction is not a weakness. It is a disease that knows no boundaries. Today and every day, I honour those who are still fighting, those we have lost, and the families and friends who love them.

Let’s keep speaking, sharing, and standing together – not only on August 31st, but always. 💜

25/08/2025

✨ Monday Reminder ✨

Healing begins with love — the way you speak to yourself, the choices you make, and the behaviors you repeat.

Ask yourself this week:
👉 Is this behavior an act of love towards myself, or is it quietly sabotaging me?

Every small choice matters. Compassionate choices build healing. Loving choices create safety. And little by little, that’s how you grow. 💛

12/08/2025

When Old Wounds Meet New Love

You’ve spent months — maybe years — working on yourself.
Therapy sessions.
Deep journaling.
Moments of stillness and regulation.

Then, a new relationship begins.
At first it’s exciting…
But suddenly you feel uneasy.
You’re nitpicking. Pulling back. Feeling the dreaded “ick.”

This doesn’t mean you’ve failed.
It means you’re human.

Because no matter how much work we do alone, relationships activate parts of us that only connection can touch.
They awaken the fears that were quiet when we were on our own.

The Protector Disguised as the Ick
Sometimes the “ick” isn’t truth.
It’s a loyal protector who learned long ago that closeness can mean pain.
It thinks it’s keeping you safe — but it may be holding you back.

Pause Before You Push Away
When fear or doubt rises, try slowing down instead of cutting and running. Ask yourself:
• Is this coming from my grounded self, or a scared younger part?
• What happens if I get curious instead of critical?
• Can I share what I’m feeling without shutting the other out?

Healthy Love Still Feels Messy
Even the most supportive relationships will bring up your old survival strategies.
That’s not a warning sign — it’s an opportunity.
To practice staying.
To feel the fear and keep the connection.
To repair instead of retreat.

Healing is not about never feeling triggered.
It’s about learning to hold yourself through it.
Choosing presence over panic.
Letting love in, even when your system whispers, “It’s safer alone.”

You are not too much, too broken, or too late.
This is how we heal — together.

01/08/2025

THERAPY FEAR #47: What if I heal… and become boring?? 😱

Maybe my unresolved childhood trauma is my personality??
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Don’t worry. The goal isn’t to dim your spark — it’s to help you stop setting your life on fire with it. 🔥🧯
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Healing won’t make you boring. It’ll just make your nervous system less of a chaos goblin.

Happy Friday 🩷

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28/07/2025

Intergenerational Trauma: What We Inherit But Don’t Always See.

Trauma isn’t always something we personally experience. Sometimes, it’s something we inherit.

Patterns of fear, silence, hyper-independence, perfectionism, or emotional shutdown can be passed down through generations—often without anyone saying a word about what happened.

This is intergenerational trauma: the emotional, psychological, and sometimes physical wounds passed on from one generation to the next. These patterns often stem from unprocessed experiences like war, displacement, abuse, colonisation, systemic oppression, or chronic stress in previous generations.

You may notice it in your family’s “unspoken rules” or in the way your body responds in relationships, conflict, or rest. You may find yourself carrying burdens that don’t feel entirely yours—because, in a way, they aren’t.

But here’s the hope: cycles can be interrupted.

Healing intergenerational trauma doesn’t mean blaming those who came before us. It means witnessing the pain with compassion, giving it space to be named, and choosing to respond differently.

Your healing is not just for you—it’s a form of ancestral repair. It’s courageous, powerful, and deeply generative.

You are allowed to ask: What am I carrying that isn’t mine?
You are allowed to set it down.

13/07/2025

Earlier this year I was fortunate to see Alexia Rothman in person at the psychotherapy symposium in Washington, DC where she shared on healing attachment and trauma wounds from an Internal family systems lens. Alexia shared the following quote.

“Treat each part of you like an honored guest, who has an important message that needs to be heard.”

Therapy isn’t about fixing what’s broken—it’s about listening to the parts of us that have been silenced, misunderstood, or pushed away.

You might notice the part of you that gets anxious in relationships. Or the one that shuts down when things feel too much. The part that overworks. The one that lashes out. Or hides. Or people-pleases.

These aren’t flaws.
They are protectors.
They once served a purpose.
And they’re still trying to help, in the only way they know how.

Healing happens when we stop trying to get rid of these parts and start getting curious about them.

💬 What is this part trying to tell me?
💬 What does it need?
💬 How can I respond with compassion, not control?

When we treat each part with honor and welcome it to the table, we create space for deep transformation. Not through force—but through relationship.

You don’t have to heal by force. You can heal by listening.

10/07/2025

This Full Moon in Capricorn invites us to get grounded in our truth. Capricorn reminds us of structure, discipline, and what we really want to build long term—but we can’t move forward when we’re still holding on.

Journaling is one of the most powerful tools we have to release what’s no longer serving us. When we keep things inside, emotions can get tangled and heavy. Journaling helps us unravel, speak our truth, and begin to understand ourselves more deeply, especially when sharing with others feels unsafe or risky.

This full moon, light a candle, grab your pen, and let it out.

✨ What will you release?

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