Fruition Psychology

24/03/2025

My new picture book that users multiple Acceptance and Commitment Therapy principles in one joyous picture book is out with Penguin Random House.

This is a warm and relatable picture book for anyone who's felt sick by their worries (about dogs, or any worries) and needed help to do what matters most to them.

https://www.penguin.com.au/books/aslan-and-benny-9781761047060

27/06/2023

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K3SUjZ_4Alc

Looking for evidence-backed advice, support and ideas for how to help your children (from babies to adolescents) develop healthier habits with technology and gain better insight into their needs and strengths; then Talk to Jocelyn - Psychology services might just have the right answer for you. If you can't join her free 'Ask Me Anything' online sessions, you can watch the recordings afterwards. Here is her first session, available for the next couple of weeks.

The links I mention:- Maybelline: through their eyes - girls gaming experiences: https://www.contagious.com/news-and-views/maybelline-gaming-experiment?- Mol...

20/04/2023

The Mind, Explained (a US based series by Vox Media 2019 & 2021) is a 2 part series of 5 short episodes (around 20 minutes) on a range of highly topical aspects of brain and mind functioning.

Episodes explore:
Memory, Dreams, Anxiety, Mindfulness, Psychodelics, Attention, Teenage Brain development (featuring young people talking about brain development and social perceptions of teenagers), Personality, Creativity and how people form conspiracy theories.

With unique features such as animated graphic images throughout to interactive audience participation in some episodes (see How to Focus), the episodes, now streaming on Netflix, are bite-sized chunks of viewing that are quite enjoyable and informative.

Emma Stone narrates this illuminating adventure through the human brain — exploring the science behind memory, dreams, anxiety, mindfulness, and more. Watch ...

05/08/2022

Feel like you don't have time for self-care? Below is a tips sheet packed with 7 self-care strategies, most of which won't require you to book a thing or spend a cent!



https://drive.google.com/file/d/1UkziVTo-jaxQohYFKXHvCZfAnk4lXySy/view?usp=sharing

13/12/2021

Mental Health Access Update
The Australian Government announced today that:
😊 Permanent access to telehealth, both video and telephone.
😊The additional 10 Better Access sessions will remain available until December 2022. This means clients will continue to be able to access up to 20 Medicare rebated Better Access sessions.
For more info, see:
https://www.health.gov.au/ministers/the-hon-greg-hunt-mp/media/permanent-telehealth-to-strengthen-universal-medicare

The Australian Government is investing $308.6 million to strengthen Australia’s primary care health system, building on our significant investment and reform to date.

02/09/2021

I know first hand how hard it is to negotiate screen time with your children. If you would like to feel more empowered in how to do this, psychologist Jocelyn Brewer Digital Nutrition is running a 90min webinar on Monday night for only $25! Resister asap so you don't miss out on this resource-filled learning experience.

Need support to wrangle technology use in your home without banning devices or throwing the modem off the Harbour Bridge? Feel like the technology genie is out of the bottle and not sure how to stuff it back in? Join psychologist, teacher and cyberpsychology researcher Jocelyn Brewer for a simple, p...

14/06/2021

Sometimes the simplest wisdom is the hardest to implement.
But we must try...

Dinosaur

04/05/2021

Breathe low and slow. A helpful piece to understand why taking a 'deep breath' doesn't help; and what you can do instead.

https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/biofeedback-and-mindfulness-in-everyday-life/201912/do-not-take-deep-breath

What you need to know for healthy, calm breathing.

04/05/2021

The Australian government has announced that Medicare rebates for telehealth (both video and phone sessions) will be extended until December 31, 2021

15/03/2021

Update regarding Telehealth sessions for Mental Health Care Plans in Australia: telehealth sessions will be available until end of June 2021.

04/01/2021

Here is a link to Susannah Conway's 'Unravel Your Year 2020' journal which you can download for free and work through in your own time. While she allows access to it from December, I'm taking my time to go through it this month. Follow the instructions in the link below to subscribe and she will email you the journal. Some years I do it, some years I don't. I find it has some useful prompts to help me reflect on the (difficult) year gone by. If you're up for the experience, take from it what speaks to you and what you find helpful. Everything else, leave behind.
https://www.susannahconway.com/unravel/

Hello loves! (¿Buscas el cuadernillo en español? Regístrate aquí) (Suchst du nach dem deutschen Arbeitsbuch? Melde dich hier für es an) As a lifelong journaler there’s just no way I can let the end of a year go by without marking it in some way. I want to take stock and look at the light … ...

04/09/2020

Some thoughts can be so incredibly sticky that they can significantly impact on our lives. I'm using this awesome resource in some of my work with some amazing young people. Guess which 'High-Intensity Curiosity Workout' I did? It was much harder than I thought it would be! And then it wasn't.😊