Lesley Taranto Counselling

11/03/2023

Our February inaugural dream group was cancelled due to Covid illness. So now to start again Wednesday 29th March at 7pm!

11/02/2023

Monica and I will be facilitating this dream group.. Starting very soon!

29/08/2020

29/08/2020

These feelings, so difficult to put on paper, have recently become more acute. I live in Melbourne, the current epicentre of Australia's coronavirus outbreak, and the government's decision to enter Stage 4 lockdown has pushed me over the edge.

07/05/2019

People with borderline personality disorder are often treated as if they have a personality flaw, rather than mental health issues stemming from trauma. It's time we changed its name.

09/04/2019

Sci-Tech  |  New childhood anxiety treatment focuses on the parents Matt Kristoffersen New childhood anxiety treatment focuses on the parents Matt Kristoffersen Staff Reporter Joy Lian According to the National Institute of Mental Health, nearly one in three American children will experience at ...

03/10/2018

I believed in attachment-style parenting and wanted to be there all of the time for my daughter. And that even made me feel guilty when I craved alone time, as if any alone time I took meant not being present for my daughter.[...]Paying attention was so hard.

31/07/2018

A new study argues that you should accept your negative emotions rather than trying to fight them off.

12/07/2018

"Meditation is actually a very practical response," says expert Leah Weiss.

10/07/2018

The London Times recently carried a story about an avalanche of self-harm among British school children. According to the article, “school nurses are dealing with panic attacks, self-cutting, overd…

03/07/2018