Smiles All Round Psychology

13/05/2026

Happy birthday to our newest team member 🥳🎉

We appreciate Cathie's calm, colourful, creative, quirky, thoughtful and humorous approach to life and work.

Note the Camembert cheese birthday "cake" 🎂. Winning!

12/05/2026

Perfection doesn’t build safety.
Return does.

Rupture is part of every relationship -
it’s what happens when two nervous systems meet, misread, miss, collide.

But it’s repair that teaches the brain
something deeper than getting it right: that connection can stretch, and still hold.

Children don’t need a flawless parent.
They need a parent who comes back - after the sharp tone,
the missed cue,
the moment that didn’t land.

Because in those returns, they learn something powerful: love doesn’t disappear when things get hard.
It repairs.
It stays.
It begins again.

‘I didn’t get that right. I’m here now. Let’s try again.’

This is how safety is built - not in perfection, but in the courage to return.

04/05/2026

Thank you for sharing Finding Solutions 🙏🩷

The world is better with you in it.

In my lifetime, I’ve lost 5 people to su***de, all of them men.

And one thing I hear over and over again from people in the depths of depression is this:
“They’d be better off without me.”

If that’s where you are right now, I need you to hear this clearly…
We would NOT be better off without you.

I’ve seen the aftermath.
I’ve stood in school corridors filled with people crying, grieving, in shock.
I’ve felt the heaviness of “I wish I could’ve done something.”

The pain doesn’t disappear, it spreads.

That’s why it’s become a mission of mine to create spaces where people feel safe enough to speak their darkest thoughts, without judgment, and find a way through.

Su***de awareness isn’t just about a coloured ribbon, a painted tree, or a designated week.

It’s about the everyday moments.
Checking in on your mates.
Having the hard conversations.
Being kind, genuinely kind.

Because behind the smiles, so many people are fighting battles we can’t see.

If someone opens up to you, they don’t need you to fix everything.
They need you to listen.
To sit with them.
To remind them they matter.
And to support them in getting help, whether that’s professional support, movement, connection, or small changes that help them feel again.

Let’s make awareness something we live, not just something we post about.

Be kind. Be present. Check in.
You might save a life. 🤍

25/04/2026

ANZAC Day – 25th April.

We honour those who have served our country and those who continue to serve our great nation. We think of all those impacted, both physically and emotionally.

Lest we forget.

21/04/2026

Wonderful to see this being offered in the Wimmera - Local programs presented by a local psychologist, Dr Nyree from Yellow Gum Psychology 😊

What a great opportunity for parents and caregivers and registration is FREE! Bookings essential!

Supporting a young person with anxiety can feel overwhelming at times, but help is available 💛

Join Dr Nyree Hutchins (Clinical Psychologist) for Building Family Strength for Anxiety, a free, supportive program for parents and carers. Learn what anxiety can look like in young people and take away simple, practical strategies to help your child feel calmer and more confident.

Sessions available for different age groups, running from 29 April to 8 May, 4:30pm-6:00pm at the Wimmera Wellbeing Centre, Horsham.

Free to attend, bookings essential.
📞 (03) 5362 4000
🌐 unitingvictas.org.au

18/04/2026

In response to the recent loss in the Robe community, our Lifeline CONNECT team will be visiting to offer a supportive space for conversation, reflection and connection.
You dont need to have the right words, a story to share, or anything prepared. If you want to sit, talk, or simply be alongside others who understand this moment of grief, you are very welcome.
Lifeline is always available if you need to talk.
If you or someone you know needs support, please call Lifeline anytime on 13 11 14, text us on 0477 13 11 14, or visit www.lifeline.org.au for our online chat service.

14/04/2026

What a great opportunity for our young people to perform (12 to 25 years) in down town Naracoorte! It's not too late to register - Contact Naracoorte Library + Town Hall to book your spot 🎸🎤🎵🎹.

Let's get behind our young people for this family friendly event.

Head down to the library this Thursday to enjoy some tunes! Big games will be out for the kids. Bring your family, friends, picnic blankets and dinner, to enjoy a lovely evening! 🎶🌅

14/04/2026

Smiles All Round Psychology is temporarily closed from Monday 13th April to Wednesday 15th April due to new carpet installation! We reopen Thursday 16th April.

We will be monitoring emails and phone messages. We apologise for any delays with responding during this time.

Grateful for our landlord, who takes great pride and care in maintaining our premises!

See you soon, with our new 'facelift' or should we say 'floorlift' 😉

05/04/2026

‼️Lifeline CONNECT is coming our way‼️

✳️Youth Ag Mt Gambier Saleyards,
Friday 10th April, 9.30 to 1.30pm

✳️Bordertown Apex Park, Tuesday 14th April, 10am to 1pm

✳️Naracoorte Town Square, Wednesday 29th April, 10am to 1pm

05/04/2026

Thank you Karen Young - Hey Sigmund for your wise words and reminder about the importance of showing up consistently in the ''ordinary moments' 🙏😊.

We tend to measure our parenting by the moments that stand out - the times we lost patience, the big feelings or behaviour we didn’t handle as well as we’d hoped, the days we were too tired, too distracted, too human.

We tend to hold those moments up as evidence of what we are - or aren’t - as parents.

But that’s not how it works.

What shapes a child’s sense of who they are isn’t any single moment. It’s the accumulation of ordinary ones - the ones in which they feel seen, safe, loved.

Neuroscience keeps telling us this quietly and consistently: the repeated experience of a calm, present, loving adult is what builds the architecture of a child’s nervous system over time. It’s not about the dramatic moments, but the ordinary ones.

Every time you showed up calm when they couldn’t. Every time you came back after a hard moment. Every average Tuesday where nothing much happened except that you were there - those moments matter.

They aren’t stored as memories they can retrieve and tell you about, but as a felt sense of the world they live in, who they are to you, and eventually, just who they are. They are stored as the answer to the question their nervous system - their foundation in the world - is always quietly asking: Am I safe? Is there someone here for me?

The body keeps score in both directions. The stress, yes - but also the warmth. The consistency. The thousand small moments of being held, seen, safe, loved, and not left alone with the hard things.

So if you tend to carry the weight of every moment you got wrong - and we all tend to do this - put some of that down.

Because the moments you got right - the ones that felt like nothing at the time - they matter, so much. And even through the messy times, those ‘got right’ moments are still there. Still working. Still building the foundation your child will stand on long after they’ve forgotten the day itself.

You don’t have to be perfect. You just have to keep coming back.

The ordinary moments are doing so much more than you think.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​❤️

22/03/2026

Thanks to a beautiful family that we know, we have come across this very special organisation. Feel the Magic has created a place where families experiencing grief can belong and feel well supported. They provide early intervention programs for kids aged 7 to 18, who are experiencing pain and isolation due to the death of a parent, guardian, or sibling.

They offer three types of connection – online, family day camp, and an overnight (2 nights) camp for kids. For more details about their programs and online resources check out their website https://www.feelthemagic.org.au/

Meet husband and wife duo: James and Kristy.

By the time James was 30, he had lost both of his parents. Kristy lost her brother when she was just two years old.

Grief shaped their lives long before Feel the Magic existed.

In 2012, they started Feel the Magic to give grieving kids and teens the kind of support they wished had been there for them: free, safe, and grounded in understanding. Since then, they’ve supported thousands of families across Australia.