Hope Counselling Service - Melinda Timmons

26/09/2025

29/07/2025

14/07/2025

The Virtual Psychologist, funded by the Primary Health Network (the PHN), is designed to provide crucial postnatal mental health support to new mothers.

28/06/2025

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💗🤍🙏 Healing from a narcissist or psychopath? Want to learn all the red flags? Breaking Trauma Bonds with Narcissists and Psychopaths is available in all major physical bookstores including your local Barnes and Noble and everywhere books are sold.

23/03/2025

Dr Justin Coulson's Happy Families is coming to Muswellbrook!

Thanks to BHP Mining, Where there's a Will is welcoming Justin Coulson, the co-host and parenting expert on Channel 9's Parental Guidance, the founder of happyfamilies.com.au, and one of Australia's most trusted parenting experts.
Justin holds a PhD in Positive Psychology and over the past decade he has helped innumerable families with his 9 books about raising children, his hundreds of media appearances (including all of Australia's major news outlets, and even the Washington Post and the New York Times), and two viral videos that have been viewed a combined 80 million times!

Don't miss out on this opportunity to learn from one of Australia's leading parenting experts!

23/03/2025

Everyone is talking about the show on Netflix, ‘Adolescence’.
Have you seen it yet?

This is a decent review and is worth a read. Even if you don’t read the whole thing, scroll to the end for some very good tips on what you can do to help your kids as a parent.

If you don’t know enough about phones/internet to properly monitor your kids use, then you really do need to educate yourself.

https://www.safeonsocial.com is a good place to start if you need help with this.

16/03/2025

BOOK RECOMMENDATION!!

‘Give yourself more’ by Georgie Fear and K Aleisha Fetters.

This was recommended to me by my personal trainer when I was looking for something to read to add to my learning about nutrition. But this book gave me so much MORE 😂

No really, I was pleasantly surprised that it wasn’t just another book about what and how to eat for weight loss. It talks about the need to truly nourish ourselves, yes with food, but in other important ways as well. It includes a lot of relevant information about mental health, wellbeing, emotions, and values. So I knew it would be relevant for a lot of my clients as well.

So check this one out if you want to find out what ‘defying diet culture’ looks like, and start giving yourself more, mentally emotionally and physically.

13/01/2025

Clinical Supervision is an imperative part of our work as helping professionals, and having a good supervisor can make all the difference.

I believe supervision should be a safe space where you can allow yourself to be vulnerable, to allow for deep reflection on what is happening for you in the relationships you build with your clients. A place where you can receive support to understand your own needs as a person and a professional.

Your supervisor should be someone you can trust to guide and support you from a genuine, caring place. A person who can use their own experience and knowledge to help you become the counsellor or social worker you are meant to be.

Providing supervision to practitioners who are reflective, curious and open to learning is something that I am very passionate about. If this sounds like what you are looking for, please reach out and start a conversation with me.

You can find a bit more about me and the way I work on my website:

https://hopecounsellingservice.com.au/clinical-supervision/

I can't wait to start working with you!

03/01/2025

The new year is a popular time to set new goals and make big plans. But there are so many reasons why this is not always necessary.

Maybe you're already on the way to achieving your goals and you're happy with your progress, so you don't need to set a new resolution. You can just keep trucking along and do what you've been doing.

Or perhaps you're feeling tired or unmotivated and can't work up the energy to set any goals. If this is the case, it's OK to slow things down a bit this year. Use this time to be more contemplative and reflective, and focus on how you really need to spend your time and energy. Nurture your mind and your body.

This year, go ahead and give yourself permission to take some of the pressure off. Life can be stressful enough without adding to it when there's no need.