10-week nutrition and exercise program available to students
A keen-eyed newsletter recipient found this program launching at Flinders in March 2019. View information about the program. I’ve reproduced sections of it below for […]
Treatment Options
How to find the right mental health information to suit your needs
In addition to providing students a health and mental health service, our role here at Health, Counselling and Disability Services is to direct you to […]
Shining light on gender-based violence
Today’s post is by Zoe Walter. Zoe is a counsellor here at Health, Counselling and Disability Services and is also the Sexual Violence Project Officer. […]
Mindful Yoga report for 2018
Work is already underway, by members of the Health, Counselling and Disability Services team, to organise our wellbeing programs for 2019. In collaboration with OASIS, […]
Flinders Insomnia Clinic
Flinders University has some of world’s leading sleep researchers. You can identify them by the funny glasses they wear, and the strange rings adorning their […]
How to eat to reduce your likelihood of depression
The idea that you can prevent and treat mental illnesses like depression with diet is only something I’ve noticed gaining momentum over the last 5 […]
Lived Experience Telephone Support Service
Recently, some of our counselling team members met up with some peeps from Skylight, a mental health organisation in the community. They were letting us […]
I just did a Mindful Yoga class
Every Tuesday during term time, from 12.00pm to 1.00pm at the OASIS centre, counsellor Maureen runs a Mindful Yoga class. I did that class today […]
Support groups for women who have experienced domestic violence
The clinicians here at Health, Counselling and Disability Services have alerted me to two important support services for women who have experienced, or are experiencing […]
Flinders University Services for Eating Disorders
Flinders University Services for Eating Disorders (FUSED) are offering 10-session cognitive behavioural treatments to improve the symptoms of disordered eating such as: binge eating – […]
The Cognitive Behavioural Model and how you can use it in your own life
Cognitive Behaviour Therapy (CBT – which has many variants) is a widely used evidence-based model of therapy that is helpful in addressing a range of psychological […]
Struggle with insomnia?
I sleep well. I sleep really well actually. Have never really struggled with sleep. If those sentences piss you off, it might be cause you […]
Services if you are facing an unplanned pregnancy
SA Health provides a comprehensive range of services if you are facing an unplanned pregnancy. These include counselling, abortion, decision making support, sexual health and […]
myCompass for mild to moderate anxiety and depression
Update 13/8/18 – myCompass is now in Version 2.0. It has had a significant facelift. The basic sections and functions of the site are the […]
The relationship between trauma and mental health
Orygen (the National Centre of Excellence in Youth Mental Health) have just released an excellent fact-sheet for young people explaining the links between trauma and […]
Resources for those bereaved by suicide
According to the Australian Bureau of Statistics, in 2016, suicide was the leading cause of death among all people 15-44 years of age, and the […]
Are mindfulness-based interventions useful for common psychiatric disorders...
You can’t go a day without hearing about how mindfulness can treat everything. We use and recommend it here at Health, Counselling and Disability Services, […]
Online Self-Help for Social Anxiety
Do you struggle with social anxiety? Lots of people do. It is one of the most common anxiety disorders in the world. Essentially, social anxiety is […]
Get yourself a New Access Coach
What is the difference between life coaching and therapy? Honestly, I have no idea! Actually, that isn’t quite true. Coaching tends to be a little […]
The Panic Room - Support Groups
Kate from the Panic Room wanted me to let you know about the support group service that they run. They run regular confidential forums for […]
Why might you use an eMental Health service?
I am the eMental Health Project Officer. Naturally that means I am quite partial to recommending eMental Health Services. If I wasn’t I’d be kinda […]
Online services for post-traumatic stress
It is an unfortunate fact of life that most of us, at some point, will be exposed to a traumatic event. Examples of traumatic events […]
Find the right NDIS services from providers near you
If you are registered with the NDIS (National Disability Insurance Scheme), you may be interested in the following resource. Telstra, who are better known for […]
Healthdirect App
I’ve mentioned Healthdirect a couple of times on this blog. I think it is your best starting point in looking for health information and health […]