Mind Lift Psychology

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✽ Counselling & Psychology for teens, adults and couples
✽ Workshops, Individual and Group Therapy
✽ Supervision for Psychologists
✽ Brisbane & Online
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❝ When you live for approval, the love you receive isn’t for the real you. It’s for the mask you wear. ❞When your sense ...
30/01/2026

❝ When you live for approval, the love you receive isn’t for the real you. It’s for the mask you wear. ❞

When your sense of safety comes from being liked, it can slowly pull you away from who you actually are. Approval might bring connection, but it often comes at the cost of authenticity.

Real closeness begins when you allow yourself to be seen without performing, pleasing, or editing parts of yourself to fit in.

Learning to be yourself is the foundation of genuine relationships.

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🌿 Emotional exhaustion is often misunderstood as laziness, lack of motivation, or not trying hard enough. In reality, it...
28/01/2026

🌿 Emotional exhaustion is often misunderstood as laziness, lack of motivation, or not trying hard enough. In reality, it is usually a sign that your nervous system has been under sustained emotional pressure for too long.

When you are emotionally exhausted, everyday tasks can feel overwhelming, rest may not feel restorative, and your emotional responses can swing between irritability and numbness. These are not personal failings. They are signals that your system is depleted and in need of support.

Emotional exhaustion is not resolved by pushing harder or being more disciplined. It improves through compassion, boundaries, regulation, and addressing the underlying emotional load.

At Mind Lift Psychology, we work with adolescents and adults to understand the deeper causes of emotional fatigue and to build practical, evidence based strategies that support recovery and long term wellbeing.

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🌿 Rejection Sensitivity Dysphoria (RSD) can make everyday moments feel emotionally overwhelming for many ADHD adults.A d...
27/01/2026

🌿 Rejection Sensitivity Dysphoria (RSD) can make everyday moments feel emotionally overwhelming for many ADHD adults.

A delayed reply.
A neutral tone.
Constructive feedback.

Suddenly, your body reacts as if something deeply threatening has happened.

RSD isn’t about being “too sensitive.” It reflects real differences in emotional processing, nervous system reactivity, and how quickly emotions are activated in the brain.

This is where DBT can be incredibly supportive.

DBT offers practical, body-based and cognitive tools that help slow emotional spirals, reduce shame, and create space between feeling triggered and responding. When delivered through a neuroaffirming lens, DBT doesn’t try to suppress sensitivity, but it helps you work with it.

If RSD resonates with you, therapy can help you feel more grounded, regulated, and compassionate toward yourself, especially in relationships, work, and moments of perceived rejection.

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❝ A slower start is still a start. ❞You don’t need to move quickly to be moving meaningfully.⎯⎯⎯
23/01/2026

❝ A slower start is still a start. ❞

You don’t need to move quickly to be moving meaningfully.

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🌿 When life already feels full, starting therapy can feel impossible.Not because you don’t want support, but because you...
21/01/2026

🌿 When life already feels full, starting therapy can feel impossible.

Not because you don’t want support, but because your system is already carrying so much.

If you’ve been telling yourself “I’ll book when things calm down,” you’re not failing. You’re overwhelmed. And that’s exactly when therapy can help the most.

Therapy isn’t another task to squeeze into your week. It’s the one hour that helps everything else feel a little more manageable. A place to breathe, recalibrate, and stop carrying things alone.

If you’re stretched thin, burnt out, or unsure where to start, you’re welcome to begin gently. Even one session can shift the load.

Book via the link in our bio. You deserve support that fits into your life, not the other way around.

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❝ Rest is not avoidance. Rest is repair. ❞Rest isn’t a sign that you’re falling behind. It’s the moment your mind and bo...
19/01/2026

❝ Rest is not avoidance. Rest is repair. ❞

Rest isn’t a sign that you’re falling behind. It’s the moment your mind and body recalibrate, integrate, and prepare you to move forward with intention.

In everyday life, repair is part of the work, not a detour from it.

Let this be your reminder to pause without guilt.

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A gentle reminder: ❝ You’re allowed to change. ❞Change doesn’t have to be dramatic to be meaningful.Sometimes it’s a shi...
16/01/2026

A gentle reminder: ❝ You’re allowed to change. ❞

Change doesn’t have to be dramatic to be meaningful.

Sometimes it’s a shift in perspective, a softened boundary, a new way of speaking to yourself.

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🌿 How therapy supports life transitions 🌿Navigating a life transition can feel disorienting, even when the change is som...
15/01/2026

🌿 How therapy supports life transitions 🌿

Navigating a life transition can feel disorienting, even when the change is something you chose or genuinely want. New roles, shifting routines, and evolving values can stir up uncertainty, emotional intensity, or a sense of not quite recognising yourself.

Therapy offers space to slow down, make sense of who you’re becoming, regulate overwhelming emotions, and build coping strategies that fit the version of you that’s emerging, not the one you’ve outgrown.

If you’re feeling stuck between the “old” and the “new,” you’re not failing. You’re reorganising.

And you don’t have to navigate that alone.

At Mind Lift Psychology, we support teens, adults, and couples through all kinds of life transitions, big, small, chosen, or unexpected.

If you’re moving through a period of change and want to feel more grounded and supported, you can book an appointment via the link in our bio.

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🌿 DBT Skills Workshop: Interpersonal EffectivenessFollowing the wonderful feedback from our October workshop on emotion ...
12/01/2026

🌿 DBT Skills Workshop: Interpersonal Effectiveness

Following the wonderful feedback from our October workshop on emotion and stress management, Mind Lift Psychology is offering another DBT skills workshop, this time focused on strengthening interpersonal effectiveness.

DBT interpersonal skills are practical, evidence‑based tools that help you:
• Get your needs met in relationships
• Maintain self‑respect during difficult interactions
• Keep relationships healthy and balanced

Across the session, you’ll learn how to be assertive, express needs clearly, and navigate conflict with more confidence and clarity.

📅 Date: 20 January 2026, 6pm
👤 Facilitator: Danielle Collins
💲 Cost: $75
📧 Register your interest: admin@mindliftpsych.com

Small skills can create meaningful shifts in how you relate to others.

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❝ You don’t need a glow up, you need safety. ❞So many of the things we label as “not enough” such as low motivation, ove...
09/01/2026

❝ You don’t need a glow up, you need safety. ❞

So many of the things we label as “not enough” such as low motivation, overwhelm, shutting down, or feeling disconnected are not flaws. They are signals from a nervous system that has been working too hard for too long.

When you feel safe:

• your body softens
• your thinking becomes clearer
• your relationships feel steadier
• your choices stop coming from fear
• your life starts to feel more like yours

Safety changes how you move through the world.

At Mind Lift Psychology we focus on helping you build internal safety, the kind that lets you show up as yourself without bracing, performing, or pretending.

You were never lacking.
You were protecting yourself.

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🌿 You can usually feel an identity shift long before you can name it.It shows up in the quiet moments. The subtle discom...
07/01/2026

🌿 You can usually feel an identity shift long before you can name it.

It shows up in the quiet moments. The subtle discomfort. The sense that the old version of you doesn’t quite fit anymore.

Identity shifts aren’t dramatic. They’re slow, intentional, and often confusing.

You’re not losing yourself. You’re meeting yourself.

If you’re noticing changes in your habits, your relationships, your values, or the spaces you feel drawn to, it may be a sign that you’re stepping into a new chapter.

Give yourself permission to grow at your own pace.

You don’t have to rush the becoming.

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❝ You don’t need to reinvent yourself. You just need space to return to yourself. ❞So much of modern life pulls us away ...
04/01/2026

❝ You don’t need to reinvent yourself.
You just need space to return to yourself. ❞

So much of modern life pulls us away from who we are.

Therapy can be a place to slow down, listen inward, and reconnect with the parts of you that already know the way forward.

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Level 5, 131 Leichhardt Street, Spring Hill
Brisbane, QLD
4000

Opening Hours

Monday 10am - 6pm
Tuesday 9am - 6pm
Wednesday 10am - 6pm
Thursday 10am - 6pm
Friday 10am - 4pm

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