The Skill Collective

The Skill Collective We're clinical psychologists who help you build skills for a better life in all areas of your life.

We help build skills for a better life in the areas of wellbeing and mental health.

October is Mental Health Month and it's a timely reminder to check in on yourself and your mental health.Some helpful pr...
15/10/2025

October is Mental Health Month and it's a timely reminder to check in on yourself and your mental health.

Some helpful prompts for reflection include:

🤔 How have I been tracking mood-wise these past couple of weeks?

🤔 How has my physical health been? Am I feeling okay physically? How has my sleep/nutrition/exercise been?

🤔 How has my mood been?

If things feel like they've gotten off track, take some time to reflect on how you can reset. ❤️

Are you feeling 10/10?

#1010

13/10/2025

Every feel frustrated when things don't go your way, or when people don't behave the way that you expect them to?

That's because 'shoulds' and 'musts' operate in the background, creating a rigid template for how things need to be.

The challenge with shoulds and musts is that they leave you feeling:

🔥 Burnt out trying to meet everything that you have committed yourself to

😞 Disappointed when outcomes don't match your expectations

😡 Angry when others violate your expectations for behaviour (hello road rage!)

Needless to say, shoulds and musts create perfect conditions for a whole host of emotions and can even impact your relationship with others.

Is it time to ease up on shoulds and musts?

Therapies such as Cognitive Behaviour Therapy can teach you to identify and shift such cognitive distortions to arrive at more balanced and sustainable ways of seeing the world.

Reach out if you're seeking tailored support to help you shift your mindset; our team are very experienced in helping you make mindset shifts!

We offer:

🗣️ Face-to-face appointments (in Subiaco, Perth)

💻 Telehealth appointments

📞 Phone appointments

Visit us at theskillcollective.com/contact-us or give us a call 6382 0355

29/09/2025

Ever go from "Everything's OK" to "Disaster Central"?

Thanks, catastrophising, for:
🔥 Taking us down the path of certain doom vs. the possibility of something bad happening.

🔥 Giving us a shot of adrenaline!

🔥 Helping us live in disaster town...constantly!

How can you dial down the catastrophising and live less in crisis mode?

Therapies such as Cognitive Behaviour Therapy teach you to identify and shift such cognitive distortions to arrive at more balanced and sustainable ways of seeing the world.

Reach out if you're seeking tailored support to help you shift your mindset; our team have a wealth of experience in this realm!

We offer:
🗣️ Face-to-face appointments (in Subiaco, Perth)
💻 Telehealth appointments
📞 Phone appointments

Visit us at theskillcollective.com/contact-us or give us a call 6382 0355


And just like that... we're 10! 🥳 🕺Thank you - clients, referrers, team, and online supporters - for your support these ...
26/09/2025

And just like that... we're 10! 🥳 🕺

Thank you - clients, referrers, team, and online supporters - for your support these past 10 years!

It's a great honour to help people achieve their goals and to witness their journey through times of challenge and change.

For many of our clients, that support is ongoing as they navigate through life events and milestones over the years - graduation, adulting, relationships, job changes, children, retirement.

Thank you too to our team (pictured at our recent celebration), many of whom have been with us for several years 💕

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24/09/2025

It's a common misconception that once you decide to reset your mindset that it should remain reset forever!!!

If only it were that simple. In reality, like any skill, resetting your mindset takes:
🧠 Coaching to spot what is going on, and to learn techniques as to how to change it (you don't know what you don't know!)

🧠 Practice (because you couldn't ace it on the tennis court just by learning the 'how to' without putting it into action!)

🧠 Troubleshooting to help you generalise your mindset reset skills across a wider range of situations.

🧠 Preparing to bounce back from setbacks because they will happen.

Above all, it helps to persevere when resetting your mindset.

If you'd like tailored support with the mindset reset process reach out to work with our team of psychologists.

We offer:
🗣️ Face-to-face appointments (in Subiaco, Perth)
💻 Telehealth/ online appointments
📞 Phone appointments

Visit us at theskillcollective.com/contact-us or give us a call 6382 0355


22/09/2025

Having a phobia can really hold you back in life:
🫥 You avoid doing things because you're afraid of what will happen, or

🫥 You do it anyway, but experience really intense anxiety (even panic), and may resort to medication, alcohol, or drugs to get through it.

🫥 Over time, family, friends, and loved ones may get roped in to maintaining your avoidance

🫥 Your life shrinks because of your fears.

How do we know this? We've worked with many people with phobias and this is a pattern that we commonly see.

If you're keen to reclaim your old routine before your phobia set in,

1️⃣ Shifting your mindset is a great starting point. Check whether your appraisal of threat is accurate - are you focused on the anxious probability or the realistic probability of something happening? (Hint: they're not the same!).

2️⃣ Pair your mindset shift with exposure, exposure, and exposure. Facing your fears - gradually, and in a systematic fashion - can help to consolidate the mindset shift.

If you're seeking tailored support to help you shift your mindset, engage in exposure, and reduce your phobias, reach out!

Several of our team members work with phobias, including:

✅ Anna (needles/injection/blood)

✅ Tim, (crowds, enclosed spaces, animals, driving, flying)

✅ Olivia (heights, enclosed spaces, driving)

✅ Keely (blood, injections, animals, enclosed spaces, crowds, flying, driving)

✅ Giulia (vomiting, heights, animals, enclosed spaces)

✅ Joyce (crowds, enclosed spaces, driving, flying, heights, spiders, vomiting, lifts, blood/injections)

We offer:
🗣️ Face-to-face appointments (in Subiaco, Perth)
💻 Telehealth/ online appointments
📞 Phone appointments

Visit us at theskillcollective.com/contact-us or give us a call 6382 0355


Here's a great reminder on the power of thoughts and how they hold us back in life.🫶
19/09/2025

Here's a great reminder on the power of thoughts and how they hold us back in life.

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Would it surprise you to learn that emotional reasoning underpins many of our fears? 😯Our ability to critically assess t...
17/09/2025

Would it surprise you to learn that emotional reasoning underpins many of our fears? 😯

Our ability to critically assess the risk of a threat can easily be overridden by strong, intense feelings.

We see this when helping those with:

🤯 A fear of spiders even in the presence of non-poisonous ones

🤯 A fear of heights even when standing on a structurally sound bridge or glass elevator

🤯 A fear of flying even though over 100,000 flights take off and land safely each day

🤯 A fear of enclosed spaces (lifts, small rooms, trains, buses) even though exit points aren't blocked

The good news is that therapies such as Cognitive Behaviour Therapy can teach you to identify emotional reasoning and, together with exposure exercises, helping to reduce your phobias.

If you're seeking tailored support reach out! Several of our team members work with phobias, including:

✅ Anna (needles/injection/blood)

✅ Tim, (crowds, enclosed spaces, animals, driving, flying)

✅ Olivia (heights, enclosed spaces, driving)

✅ Keely (blood, injections, animals, enclosed spaces, crowds, flying, driving)

✅ Giulia (vomiting, heights, animals, enclosed spaces)

✅ Joyce (crowds, enclosed spaces, driving, flying, heights, spiders, vomiting, lifts, blood/injections)

We offer:
🗣️ Face-to-face appointments (in Subiaco, Perth)
💻 Telehealth/ online appointments
📞 Phone appointments

Visit us at theskillcollective.com/contact-us or give us a call 6382 0355


15/09/2025

All. The. Feels... ❣️

So much of how we navigate life is based on vibes. But what if our feelings are leading us astray?

Thanks, emotional reasoning, for:
❤️‍🔥 Turning us away from facts to act on a vibe instead

❤️‍🔥 Causing us to doubt our judgements because we don't 'feel certain'

❤️‍🔥 Feeling like an imposter because even though we have the results to back it up, we just don't feel confident'

❤️‍🔥 Leading us to keep working on projects until it feels 'just right' when we can finally step away from it...

❤️‍🔥 Causing us to believe that something is dangerous because we 'feel nervous'

The problem with emotional reasoning is that you can be steered off course when feelings are STRONG 💪

Is it time to ease up on emotional reasoning?

Therapies such as Cognitive Behaviour Therapy teach you to identify and shift such cognitive distortions to arrive at more balanced and sustainable ways of seeing the world.

Reach out if you're seeking tailored support to help you shift your mindset; our team have a wealth of experience in this realm!

We offer:
🗣️ Face-to-face appointments (in Subiaco, Perth)
💻 Telehealth appointments
📞 Phone appointments

Visit us at theskillcollective.com/contact-us or give us a call 6382 0355


RU OK?Whilst every day is a good day to check in with others, today is a special reminder in case you need reminding.Hea...
10/09/2025

RU OK?

Whilst every day is a good day to check in with others, today is a special reminder in case you need reminding.

Head to for a range of resources to help with:
💛 How to ask RU OK?
💛 What to do when someone says they're not
💛 Supports available online and in the community

Other resources include:
📞 Lifeline 13 11 14 (24/7 support)
📞 Su***de Call Back Service 1300 659 467
📞 Kids Helpline (5-25yo) 1800 55 1800

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10/09/2025

Picture this...

You're up the night before your test. 🥱

You know sleep is the best thing for you right now so that you're fresh for questions tomorrow, but your mind starts with the 'what ifs' and the 'catastrophising'. 😣

If this sounds familiar, try stepping through how likely each feared consequence is to occur and consider if you might cope if it *did* occur. 🤔

Therapies such as Cognitive Behaviour Therapy can teach you to identify and shift such cognitive distortions to arrive at more balanced and sustainable ways of seeing the world. ⚖️

And if you're seeking tailored support to help you shift your mindset? Reach out; our team have years (some even decades!) of experiencing with shifting unhelpful mindsets!

We offer:
🗣️ Face-to-face appointments (in Subiaco, Perth)
💻 Telehealth appointments
📞 Phone appointments

Visit us at theskillcollective.com/contact-us or give us a call 6382 0355



Catastrophising and exam anxiety make great lab partners!Jumping to the worst case scenario when it comes to your studie...
08/09/2025

Catastrophising and exam anxiety make great lab partners!

Jumping to the worst case scenario when it comes to your studies can make you:
🤯 Feel awful and even panicked
🤯 Affect your ability to remember information that's needed for the test
🤯 Lead you to 'freeze' in the face of questions
🤯 Cause you to procrastinate on your studies due to how awful you feel

The good news is that therapies such as Cognitive Behaviour Therapy can teach you to identify catastrophic thinking to arrive at a more balanced way of seeing the world, helping you to stay on track with your studies.

If you're seeking tailored support to help you shift your mindset reach out; our team who are well-versed in CBT!

Several of our team members can also help you to develop a study plan (e.g. time management, goal-setting, reducing procrastination, study skills).

We offer:
🗣️ Face-to-face appointments (in Subiaco, Perth)
💻 Telehealth appointments
📞 Phone appointments

Visit us at theskillcollective.com/contact-us or give us a call 6382 0355

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