Minding Our Minds: The Relationship Counselling Centre

17/02/2026

Our intimate relationships matter because they’re one of the most powerful mirrors and medicine cabinets we’ll ever have. In a close partnership, we don’t just share a life, we shape a nervous system: we learn how safe it is to be seen, how repair works after rupture, and whether love feels like rest or like work. Healthy intimacy offers more than romance, it provides belonging, emotional regulation through co-regulation, and a steady base from which we can take risks, heal old wounds, and grow into truer versions of ourselves. When we tend our relationships with honesty, boundaries, and care, we’re not “being soft” or indulgent, we’re building a foundation for wellbeing that touches everything else: our confidence, our parenting, our work, and our capacity to meet life’s hard days with someone in our corner.

17/01/2026

19/12/2025

❤️ Seven sisters 2026 ❤️
I’m so excited to be able to speak and inspire again at seven sisters next year.

Journey to Sovereignty is an invitation to come home to yourself- meeting your thoughts, feelings and choices with clarity, presence and trust.

A return to inner authority. A remembering of what’s already yours.

Grounded. Embodied. Empowering. A space to stand in your truth and choose consciously.

Who else is joining for the final Seven Sisters gathering? It’s going to be a special one 🥹

12/12/2025

The stories and anxieties that get passed down through generations are very real. I love this short clip of Couples Therapy TV as it shows the impact and limitations of these internalised narratives so well.

05/12/2025

01/12/2025

13/11/2025

✨ What’s New at Minding Our Minds ✨

🌿 A Fresh Chapter:
I’m so excited to share that Minding Our Minds | The Relationship Counselling Centre has moved to Being Well Bentleigh — a beautiful, calm wellness centre at 56 East Boundary Rd, Bentleigh East. It’s the perfect space to slow down, reflect, and reconnect.

💞 For New Clients — “Relationship Rescue” Package:
Start 2026 feeling reconnected and supported with four couples sessions for $700 when booked in January. A caring reset designed to rebuild connection, strengthen communication, and restore closeness.

🧠 Expanding Support:
In 2026, I’ll also begin working with neurodiverse couples, both in-clinic and online through relationshipcounsellingcentre.com.au.

🌸 Giving Back:
Next year, one counselling space will be offered at nominal cost for someone navigating divorce or separation. Please reach out if this could help someone you know.

📚 For My Clients:
I’ve created a private Skool community — an extensive free resource hub with videos, tools, and guides on communication, intimacy, conflict, and more. Message me for your invite.

✨ As the end of the year comes into view, I hope you find moments to pause, rest, and reconnect with what really matters. Relationships thrive when we meet each other with patience, curiosity, and care.
With warmth and gratitude,
Talitha Newton
MindingOurMinds.com.au 💫

11/11/2025

27/10/2025

Here’s a easy resource to help create boundaries for couples around conflict.

24/10/2025

🌿 Exciting News! 🌿
I’m so happy to share that from November 6th, Minding Our Minds | The Relationship Counselling Centre will have a new home at Beingwell Bentleigh, located at 56 East Boundary Road, Bentleigh East.

Everything will continue to run as usual — same sessions, same care, just a beautiful new space to welcome you into. 💫

Bookings for couples counselling and individual psychotherapy can be made via www.mindingourminds.com.au or by calling 📞 0466 810 183.

I’m really looking forward to continuing this work with you from our new home. 🕊️

21/10/2025

Book Review: The Surrender Experiment by Michael A. Singer
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I actually started reading this book last year but put it down not too far in. At the time, I just wasn’t connecting — he kept referencing his corporate business success, and it felt a bit distant for where I was at. I also hadn’t taken much notice of the author’s name (I can get a bit stuck in my own little bubble sometimes).
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Then a few months ago, someone recommended The Untethered Soul, which I absolutely devoured and connected with deeply. Only after finishing it did I realise — same author! So I picked The Surrender Experiment back up, and honestly, it felt like a completely different book. It was as if it was speaking right to me.
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This time around, the message landed so clearly: life has a way of unfolding when we stop trying to control it. Singer’s story shows what happens when we say yes — not to everything mindlessly, but to the flow of life itself. His idea of surrender isn’t about giving up; it’s about trusting that what comes our way is part of something much bigger.
It’s a beautiful, humbling reminder to soften, to stay open, and to let life lead instead of constantly trying to steer it.
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Sometimes a book doesn’t land because we’re not quite ready for it yet. When the timing’s right, the same words can meet you in a completely new way.
Have you ever had that happen with a book?
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❤️ I’m in search of my next book. If you have a must read please share it in the comments. ❤️