Barossa Psychology

08/06/2025

Sitting with our feelings and discomfort is not an easy process but it is absolutely worth it! 🌼

02/05/2025

When you’re stuck and feeling unmotivated, try connecting to what’s most important to you and remind yourself why the action is right for you.

02/05/2025

Over the last 25 years this practice has worked exclusively with children and adolescents and their caregivers. As a result of our experience in this area, we also now offer a specific subset of adult therapy work - brief (6 session) therapy for parents/caregivers who are experiencing parental stress and distress designed to reduce anxiety, overwhelm, sadness, frustration and grief associated specifically with parenting.

During these sessions, our psychologists will aim to support you and hear your concerns, and to support you to find strategies to practice self-compassion, problem solve practical issues to respond to your child/teen, and find strategies to cope with distress.

Telehealth options are available for those in remote areas or where time constraints are an issue. Please note, we do not provide therapy to adults which is aimed at treating broader mental health issues (eg therapy for depression, post-traumatic stress, relationship difficulties and so on). It is important you let us know if you believe you need support for these issues so we can refer you to other services. We will also let you know if we believe these supports/services might be appropriate for you.

Call us on 83571711 or email us at admin@developingminds.net.au for more information

09/11/2024

If you can be anything, be kind.

✏️ Daniel Abrahams

19/05/2024

20/10/2023

Be gentle on yourselves over the weekend. 🌸

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09/10/2023

The most relaxing app in the world

30/08/2023

Did you know there is an alternative to emergency departments when you or a loved one are experiencing a mental health crisis?

Immediate, safe, and inclusive support is available at the Urgent Mental Health Care Centre (UMHCC).

⏰The free service is open 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, with no referral required.

📍The UMHCC is located at 215 Grenfell Street, Adelaide.

🚶‍♂️📞You can walk in or call on 8448 9100 to let them know you’re on your way.

ℹ️For more information, visit www.umhcc.org.au

10/02/2023

CHEW THE FAT NIGHT
Run by community, for men

We’re back at the Schuster’s, Schuster Rd Freeling 7pm Friday 3rd March 2023.

• Pig on Spit
• Free beer
• Night golf
• Men only

Life stories from everyday blokes sharing how they overcame their own unique mind health challenge.

No agendas, blokes getting together to ‘chew the fat’.

No RSVP - just turn up with a mate + chair
Any Q’s 📞 Gavin or Anthony, phone numbers on the invite

02/02/2023

Beautifully said Naomi Holdt

SET IT DOWN

Yesterday, I stepped out of my car to make the trip into my office. On an average day, I resemble a mini packhorse, but yesterday, the cargo was even more than usual. Mom-size (it’s-all-in-here) handbag, lunch cooler box, work backpack, LARGE plastic box containing our new juvenile Hadeda, accessories and food bag for said juvenile Hadeda and my lap top bag. I flung as much as I could over my shoulders, picked up the Hadeda box and peered into the backseat of my car wondering how I was going to add just that one more item (my laptop bag) to the already towering pillar of my being…

I started to lean in… I realized in that moment that if I leant just one more millimeter, I would be thrown off-balance, and the result would be a pile of feathers and files floating all around me…

Right there, I made a decision…
I looked at the waiting bag, and I set down all my expectations of adding it to the burdensome pile…

I didn’t need it right then.
Right there.
Or in the next few hours.

The load was already too much…

For many people I know, life, with all its twists and hurlings, has already felt like too much this year…

I know it’s hard to set things down.
To hand them over.
To ask for help.
Especially when our childhood wiring has us set in “do it all yourself” mode.
But when we try to rush through life in this manner, we ARE going to land up in a pile of feathers and files, and have a chaotic mess to clean up…

I sat at my desk and reframed…
I consciously breathed…
I reprioritized…
The actual to-do-list… the admin deadlines… the emotional load that I was holding…
The things that needed carrying today…
The things that I could set down until tomorrow…
The things that I could ask for help with…

If you’re feeling overwhelmed, SET IT DOWN.
Not everything needs to be carried TODAY.
Not everything needs to be done in this moment.
Despite what your wiring may tell you…
Some things can wait. Some things can be designated.

Free up some air to breathe.
Whatever you may have flung around your shoulders today,
SET IT DOWN.
You don’t need to carry it all at once.
And you don’t need to carry it all alone.

With love
Naomi♥️

21/12/2022

A great app at half price if anyone is interested. Stay safe & kind to yourself, whatever this time of year brings for you. 😁

The most relaxing app in the world

20/12/2022

By Mellow Doodles
So many people find Christmas time stressful, tiring, overwhelming and just not fun! This year try practicing all these phrases BEFORE you need them. You have as much right to an enjoyable time as every guest, family member and extended family. Remember that.