Sustainable Self Psychology

06/02/2025

SSP is excited to announce an expansion of services to specifically address intimacy and relationship navigation by warmly welcoming a s*xologist to our team in 2025. Athalie's approachable nature and extensive and diverse experience around s*xuality aims to be a specialized resource for established and new clients alike. Athalie offers telehealth sessions Australia-wide and in person sessions at our location in Malvern. Welcome Athalie!

14/11/2024

25/08/2024

Sustainable Self Psychology is a psychological counselling service for adults and adolescents. We p

20/11/2023

The first nationally representative research into the prevalence of child sexual offending behaviours and attitudes has shed unprecedented light on sexually abusive behaviours and feelings among Australian men.

27/04/2023

If you're a client of mine, then you've no doubt heard me prattle on about Dr Mate`s work and his latest book, "The Myth of Normal."
What may be described as his magnum opus (written in collaboration with his son, Daniel) this book is long overdue in the context of our current times.
This hefty but highly readable tome explores and connects all aspects of psychological trauma from the biological, to early environment and unmet core developmental needs, to culture, society, and the decimating impacts of colonialism, and capitalism run amok on our minds and bodies (bodymind).
If you read one book this year, let this be the one! Mate` knows how to write and never shies away from using his own lived experience and human vulnerability as teacher and example.
Along with Bessel Van Der Kolk's 'The Body keeps the Score,' and Judith Herman's 'Trauma and Recovery,' this one is destined to be a classic in the trauma literature.
Look at me...prattling on again 😉
Too important not share with you all! Louise 💜🙏

01/04/2023

5 Pillars of Trust in a Relationship 🫂

We’ll just drop this here 📖
by: Gottman & Silver (2012)

15/02/2023

23/01/2023

Here at SSP we are excited to announce a new addition to the team for the New Year! Margarita is offering telehealth sessions Australia-wide and can conduct sessions in both English and Spanish.
We feel so fortunate to have Margarita on board! She works from a trauma-informed, holistic framework, always placing the therapeutic relationship at the centre of her practice. Welcome Margarita!

17/01/2023

Sometimes childhood trauma is not about what that happened to us ('traumas of comission'), but rather what should've happened, but didn't ('traumas of omission').
Childhood Emotional Neglect (CEN) can present in adulthood as a range of mental health symptoms, and it can often be missed/overlooked.
While the impacts of CEN can be profound, you CAN also heal from it, begin to embrace safe relationships and truly honour your emotional needs ❤️ .

Acknowledge it, name it, seek the right support.

10/01/2023

They say the grass is always greener on the other side? So subjective. To follow from our last post, we’ve added a more positive hopeful upbeat image.

Though at times, it can feel like we’re so trapped in this darkness, that trauma can consume us, and our lives/identity...we can perhaps be curious. One step, one day, or week at a time. To heal. To trust. To feel ok. To feel worth. To maybe feel safe or safer one day. To feel stronger & more like you. Whatever that may mean, or whatever you may want that to be.

xx From us at SSP 🌿

Credit: 💟 capturing such in great form & detail