Dolphin Tribe

27/10/2025

Perimenopausal Depression: Understanding Hormones, Mood, and Management Strategies for GPs

Did you know depression rates increase up to 16x in women aged 42-52? Yet this condition remains significantly underdiagnosed in primary care.

Join Dr Sangeetha Makielan, MD (Hons), FRANZCP, Psychiatrist and Psychotherapist, for a comprehensive professional development session that will transform how you approach mental health in midlife women.

What You'll Learn:
✓ Recognise unique clinical presentations
✓ Understand hormonal-mood connections
✓ Apply evidence-based treatments
✓ Navigate hormone therapy options
✓ Implement practical management protocols

The Stats:
📊 45-68% of perimenopausal women experience elevated depressive symptoms
📊 2x higher risk even with no prior depression history
📊 Highest female su***de rates occur in 45-49 age group

Event Details:

📅 Monday, November 2025
⏰ 6:30 - 7:30 PM.
📍 Online
🎓 CPD Certificate Available

14/10/2025

Understanding Anxious Attachment in Parenting

Did you grow up feeling like love was unpredictable — warm one moment and distant the next?

Those early experiences can shape how you connect with your own children.

Parents with anxious attachment often love deeply but may struggle with:
💭 Worrying about rejection or distance
😰 Overreacting to their child’s distress
💔 Taking their child’s independence personally

The beautiful truth? These patterns can change.
With awareness, compassion, and support, you can build secure connections that help your child thrive — and heal old wounds within yourself.

🌱 Read the full blog to explore how anxious attachment forms, how it shows up in parenting, and the steps toward secure, confident relationships.

👉 Read now on our blog https://www.dolphintribe.com.au/post/understanding-anxious-attachment-in-parenting

When love in childhood felt unpredictable—warm one moment and distant the next—it can leave a lasting “attachment alarm.” Anxious attachment often shows up in parenting as big emotions, over helping, or taking a child’s moods personally. This article explains how those patterns form and of...

02/10/2025

🌟 Discover Play & Grow at Dolphin Tribe! 🌟

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❓ Does your child struggle with expressing their experiences in words?
🤝 Do they get into repeated relationship issues?
💭 Do they find it hard to name their feelings?
💡 Are they unable to accept another’s point of view (empathy)?
🗣️ Do they have difficulty organising their language to describe their own experiences?
🌪️ Do they experience strong negative feelings and struggle to regulate them?
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Play and Grow program can help - it builds emotional literacy, social skills, self-control, and empathy—all essential foundations for wellbeing and success in life.

👧 For ages 4 - 12
🎨 Play therapy, Art therapy, Sand therapy
🤝 Safe, supportive, and inclusive environment

See https://www.dolphintribe.com.au/play-and-grow