WA Mental Health

09/04/2026

Meet our Busselton therapists, qualified mental health professionals who are part of WA Mental Health’s growing South West team.

Offering both face-to-face and online counselling, our Busselton-based practitioners support clients through anxiety, relationship challenges, parenting concerns, grief, stress, and more.

If you are looking for support in the Busselton area, our team is here to help.

Meet our Busselton team here:
https://wamentalhealth.com.au/location/busselton/

09/04/2026

Leadership sets the tone.

Psychological safety begins at the top.
Leaders who listen, respond appropriately, and model accountability create environments where people feel safe to contribute.

Through Psychologically Safe WA, we work directly with leadership teams to:

• Strengthen communication
• Reduce workplace conflict
• Clarify behavioural standards
• Improve team trust
• Build confident decision-making

Culture is not accidental.
It is built.

🔗 https://wamentalhealth.com.au/psychologically-safe-wa/
📘 Stay connected: Psychologically Safe WA

07/04/2026

Online counselling suits so many people because it offers support in a way that is flexible, accessible, private, and easier to fit into everyday life.

For some, it means accessing counselling from regional or remote areas. For others, it means less travel, more convenience, greater comfort in their own space, or simply being able to connect with the right practitioner regardless of location.

At WA Mental Health, our Online team includes 23 practitioners supporting individuals, couples, and families across Western Australia. With a wide range of backgrounds, approaches, areas of experience, and language options across our team, we aim to help people find support that feels right for them.

Whether you are navigating stress, anxiety, trauma, grief, relationship challenges, parenting, or life transitions, online counselling can be a meaningful and practical option.

Meet our Online team here:

WA Mental Health offers flexible, accessible online counselling and mental health support for individuals, couples and families across Western Australia. Whether you’re in a remote area or prefer the convenience of telehealth, our experienced therapists provide compassionate care tailored to your ...

07/04/2026

It is fascinating how a misinterpretation can become a wider social and intergenerational “truth”, lingering long after the evidence has evolved.

More than 20 years ago, people did not have access to information in the same way we do now, so many simply trusted what they were told. Yet even today, outdated information, mistruths, and oversimplified messages are still passed around and believed.

It is a timely reminder for all of us to stay open, keep learning, and question more, even when the information first comes from those seen as the experts.

06/04/2026

Are you seeking mental health or relationship support in Perth?

WA Mental Health therapists based in Perth offer high-quality counselling across the metro area. Our Perth team brings diverse expertise in mental health, relationships, trauma recovery, family dynamics, and emotional wellbeing. Sessions are available in-person or online to suit your needs.

WA Mental Health therapists based in Perth offer high-quality counselling across the metro area. Our Perth team brings diverse expertise in mental health, relationships, trauma recovery, family dynamics, and emotional wellbeing. Sessions are available in-person or online to suit your needs.

06/04/2026

If you have been waiting for an opportunity to connect with Carrina Hampton, appointments are currently available.

With close to 25 years of experience, Carrina offers a rare depth of expertise across mental health, family therapy, court reportable family therapy, clinical supervision, clinical hypnotherapy, and business coaching. As an Accredited Mental Health Social Worker, Accredited Family Therapist, Court Reportable Family Therapist, Clinical Supervisor, and Clinical Hypnotherapist, she supports individuals, couples, families, and professionals with compassion, experience, and practical insight.

This is a valuable opportunity to book with a highly sought-after practitioner whose availability is unusual.

Sessions are available in person in Bunbury or online.

Learn more or book here: www.wamentalhealth.com.au/carrinahampton

27/03/2026

𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐆𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐥𝐞 𝐏𝐨𝐰𝐞𝐫 𝐨𝐟 𝐒𝐭𝐨𝐫𝐲 𝐢𝐧 𝐂𝐡𝐢𝐥𝐝𝐫𝐞𝐧’𝐬 𝐓𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐚𝐩𝐲
When we think about supporting children, it is easy to focus on talking, explaining, and helping them find the right words. But often, children process the world differently. Story, metaphor, imagination, and symbolism can create a gentler pathway to healing.

This is one of the reasons I have long valued healing stories in therapeutic work with children and young people. I have known of this resource for years, since training with George W. Burns back in 2010, and it is one I still genuinely appreciate.

Healing stories and metaphors can help children explore big feelings, worries, grief, confidence, behaviour, family changes, and difficult life experiences in a way that feels safer and less confronting than direct conversation alone. They can open the door to insight, reflection, and emotional expression in ways that are age-appropriate, creative, and deeply effective.

I have always loved how stories can work in ways that feel similar to hypnotherapy for children, creating safety, lowering resistance, and allowing meaning to emerge naturally. They can be used within hypnosis, but also beautifully outside of hypnosis in everyday counselling and therapeutic work.

For practitioners, parents, and carers, this is a lovely reminder that healing does not always happen through direct talk. Sometimes story is the bridge.

Sharing this resource here in case it is helpful:
www.socialworkerstoolbox.com/101-healing-stories-kids-teens-book/

26/03/2026

Being able to access therapy in your native language can make counselling feel safer, easier, and more meaningful.

For many people, emotions are not always easy to translate. Speaking in the language that feels most natural can help you feel more comfortable, more connected, and more understood.

We’re so pleased to welcome Lisa Chiarini to the WA Mental Health team. Lisa offers online counselling in Italian and English, supporting people with warmth, compassion, and care.

Currently completing her Master of Counselling, Lisa brings experience across community and crisis services and offers support with stress, anxiety, low mood, grief, relationship concerns, and major life transitions.

If you have been looking for a counsellor who can offer support in Italian, Lisa is now available for online sessions through WA Mental Health.

Learn more or enquire here:
https://wamentalhealth.com.au/practitioner/lisa-chiarini/

26/03/2026

We’re excited to welcome Lisa Chiarini to the WA Mental Health team. 💛

Lisa is a counselling student currently completing her Master of Counselling, with extensive experience across community and crisis services. She offers a warm, supportive and non-judgemental space to help you work through life’s challenges, stress, anxiety, low mood, relationship concerns, grief, and major transitions.

✅ Online counselling
✅ Professionally supervised (as part of her placement with WA Mental Health)
✅ Sessions available in English and Italian

Learn more about Lisa and enquire/book here:
https://wamentalhealth.com.au/practitioner/lisa-chiarini/

21/03/2026

Congratulations WA Mental Health, Alyssa Bradbury Carrina Hampton and all of the support team. Last nights event was outstanding. What a privilege to listen and learn about Mental Health and Sport from your speakers.

Alyssa Bradbury - Youth Coach, Mentor + Speaker - we need to make the conversations around mental-being, welcome.

SALT - Sport and Life Training Dave Burt - let conversations value character over results. Salt launching in WA soon.

Kelsey Browne - Diamond…you really are a diamond. “Death is the worst thing… the rest we can work through”. Let’s stop the comparison of our young people.

Charlotte Ellery - RISE may well be the formula for happiness.

I was so pleased to support this event.

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16/03/2026

This week we celebrate Harmony Week (16–21 March) – a time to recognise and celebrate Australia’s cultural diversity and the strength it brings to our communities.

Australia is one of the most multicultural countries in the world.

Over the past 70 years, more than 7.5 million migrants have made Australia home.

Today, we identify with more than 300 ancestries, and nearly half of Australians were born overseas or have at least one parent born overseas.

Across the country, hundreds of languages are spoken, including more than 150 Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander languages, reflecting the world’s oldest continuous cultures alongside the stories of newer arrivals.

Harmony Week reminds us that everyone belongs.

It’s about inclusion, respect, and creating communities where people feel safe to be themselves, share their culture, and feel connected.

Because when people feel they belong, their wellbeing improves and communities grow stronger.

At WA Mental Health, we believe mental health support should be inclusive, culturally respectful, and accessible to everyone.

This week, we celebrate the many cultures, stories, and perspectives that make Australia the vibrant place it is.

🧡 Everyone belongs.

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08/03/2026

Today we celebrate International Women’s Day and the incredible women who shape our workplaces, communities, and families.

At WA Mental Health, we see the strength, compassion and leadership of women every day. From practitioners supporting others through life’s challenges to the women bravely seeking connection, healing and change.

When women are supported and empowered, communities thrive.

To the women creating impact across mental health in WA and beyond, we see you, we thank you and we celebrate you.

Happy International Women’s Day! 🌸

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