Lucid Psychotherapy & Counselling

16/06/2022

Our individual psychological difficulties and wider social, climate, and ecological crises are not separate! For our healing to be more complete, the individual and collective both need to be addressed. For this reason one or our therapists, Michael Apathy, will be facilitating group work at Lucid Psychotherapy. If you're curious, check out this event. Current or former psychotherapy clients of Michael Apathy should check in with him before attending. https://fb.me/e/1V9zZ1NsD

14/07/2020

95bFM were nice enough to recently interview one of our therapists, Michael Apathy, on the climate and ecological crisis. Thanks bFM for taking our mental health and the climate crisis seriously!

05/04/2020

Due to Covid-19 we're now offering online psychotherapy sessions. At Lucid We've been doing some work online with clients for years, and we know working online is an effective way to do therapy. Appointments are available now, so please get in touch if you'd like to book in.

28/03/2020

From a nurse in Ōtepoti:

Please know that if you are having to self isolate/quarantine in an unsafe environment (psychological, physical, verbal abuse etc) you can still access help during this lockdown period!

Police will still respond and are preparing for the spike in family violence call outs.

You are not a burden, you deserve to be safe.

Some social services are still operating and government social services are deemed essential.

Womens refuge and Shine are still operating, all acute mental health crisis lines are still operating, some CADS services (mostly phone/online support), Oranga Tamariki are still responding to urgent call outs for child safety.

You do not have to suffer in isolation.

You also do not need to watch your neighbor/friends or family suffer and not know what to do.

Here are some helpful numbers:

0800REFUGE- Womens Refuge

0508FAMILY- Oranga Tamariki (Reports of concern for children’s safety)

0508 744 633- SHINE

0800 787 797- Alcohol and drug helpline

0800 543 354 or free text 4357- Lifeline

0800 376 633 - Youthline

0800 111 757 Depression Helpline

0508 828 865 Su***de Prevention Helpline

Kia kaha 💙

23/03/2020

We hope you and your loved ones are well in this stressful time as we adapt to COVID-19. We're currently moving to online sessions for all new and existing clients, with online bookings available soon.
Be kind to yourself and others, be flexible, and let's all work together to take care of each other in these uncertain times 💖😀

17/03/2020

7 Things you can do to help yourself and your loved ones remain mentally well through the pandemic Recorded by psychiatrist, Dr. Eva Adriana Wilson. For more...

16/09/2019

"We're seeing rises in mental health issues - anxiety, depression, stress - and I think that is potentially an unconscious reaction to what we're feeling in society today,"

"We've got this big looming threat around climate and whether we are at the start of the sixth mass extinction, the twilight of humanity. These are big things to be dealing with and people can either go into avoidance or become unhappy and depressed. What we're seeing is an impact of all of that coming together."

Climate change is not just an environmental threat but also a psychological crisis, especially as children increasingly shoulder the burden to act.

14/08/2019

It occurred to Pooh and Piglet that they hadn't heard from Eeyore for several days, so they put on their hats and coats and trotted across the Hundred Acre Wood to Eeyore's house. Inside the house was Eeyore.

"Hello Eeyore," said Pooh.

"Hello Pooh. Hello Piglet" said Eeyore, in a Glum sounding voice.

"We just thought we'd check on you," said Piglet, "because we hadn't heard from you, and so we wanted to know if you were okay."

Eeyore was silent for a moment. "Am I okay?" he asked, eventually. "Well, I don't know, to be honest. Are any of us really okay? That's what I ask myself. All I can tell you, Pooh and Piglet, is that right now I feel really rather Sad, and Alone, and Not Much Fun To Be Around At All.

Which is why I haven't bothered you. Because you wouldn't want to waste your time hanging out with someone who is Sad, and Alone, and Not Much Fun To Be Around At All, would you now."

Pooh looked and Piglet, and Piglet looked at Pooh, and they both sat down, one on either side of Eeyore in his stick house.

Eeyore looked at them in surprise. "What are you doing?"

"We're sitting here with you," said Pooh, "because we are your friends. And true friends don't care if someone is feeling Sad, or Alone, or Not Much Fun To Be Around At All. True friends are there for you anyway. And so here we are."

"Oh," said Eeyore. "Oh." And the three of them sat there in silence, and while Pooh and Piglet said nothing at all; somehow, almost imperceptibly, Eeyore started to feel a very tiny little bit better.

Because Pooh and Piglet were There.
No more; no less.

Author Unknown
Illustration by E. H. Shepard
Based on A. A. Milne's Winnie the Pooh & Characters