Psicoterapia e Aconselhamento HelpLand Emotional Support Centre
HelpLand Emotional Support Center provides short and long term online and phone Psychotherapy and Counselling Glaucia Barbosa
HelpLand Emotional Support Centre oferece psicoterapia individual on-line, para adultos. Nos tambem oferecemos informacao sobre dificuldades emocionais vividas por imigrantes durante o processo de imigração, adaptação e aculturação. HelpLand Emotional Support Centre foi fundado e opera sob valores cristãos de amor, humildade, serviço, respeito, integridade e honestidade. Nosso objetivo é facilitar o desenvolvimento de relacionamentos saudáveis e promover a integração respeitosa entre diferentes culturas. Para marcar sessões de aconselhamento/psicoterapia online ou via phone ou requisitar a facilitacao de workshops, escreva para Glaucia: glauciaraad.b@gmail.com ou helplandcentre@gmail.com ou complete o CLIENT CONTACT FORM em meu website www.helplandcentre.com, e eu entrarei em contato com voce.
12/10/2025
💡 Did you know that children (and many adults) show their stress through Fight, Flight, or Freeze responses?
These aren’t signs of “bad behavior” …they’re survival responses.
A child who yells, runs away, or shuts down isn’t being “difficult” - they’re showing us that their nervous system feels unsafe.
When we reframe these moments as stress responses, we can meet children with empathy instead of punishment.
What they need most is safety, connection, and understanding.
08/10/2025
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03/10/2025
O cientista japonês Yoshinori Ohsumi recebeu o Prêmio Nobel de Fisiologia ou Medicina em 2016 após descobrir como funciona a autofagia, um processo em que as células conseguem se reciclar.
Essa atividade aumenta durante o jejum, quando o corpo passa a usar partes defeituosas ou desgastadas para gerar energia.
A descoberta ajudou a explicar como o organismo elimina células danificadas e mantém seu equilíbrio interno. O trabalho de Ohsumi abriu caminho para novos estudos sobre envelhecimento, imunidade e doenças como câncer e Parkinson.
02/10/2025
Understanding NT, ADHD, Autism, and AuDHD Through Simple Visuals
Sometimes words aren’t enough to explain how different brains work. That’s where visuals like this one come in — a simple drawing that powerfully illustrates how neurotypical (NT), ADHD, Autism, and AuDHD minds process life, thoughts, and experiences.
At first glance, the lines might look like random doodles. But each one represents the cognitive patterns and lived experiences of these different neurotypes. Let’s break it down.
1. Neurotypical (NT): The Straight Line
The straight line represents stability, predictability, and consistency.
Neurotypical individuals often experience life in a way that follows social expectations, routines, and structures.
Their thought processes are typically linear — start, middle, end.
This doesn’t mean life is easy, but it means that their brains usually follow the “default settings” society is built around.
That’s why many social systems (schools, workplaces, etc.) are designed with NT thinking in mind.
2. ADHD: The Interrupted Line with Zigs and Zags
The ADHD brain looks very different. Notice how the line starts straight, but then suddenly zigs and zags all over the place.
ADHD often involves inconsistent attention. Someone may start a task with focus, but quickly get distracted or pulled in multiple directions.
Hyperfocus can also appear — represented by the sudden dense scribbles — where someone gets absorbed in one thing and loses track of time.
It’s not a lack of intelligence or effort. It’s a different wiring of the brain that struggles with executive function (planning, prioritizing, finishing tasks).
This is why ADHD is often described as having “a race car brain with bicycle brakes.”
3. Autism: The Web of Expanding Lines
Instead of a straight path, the autistic brain is represented by lines spreading out in multiple directions.
Autism is characterized by intense focus, sensory differences, and unique ways of processing the world.
Rather than going from point A to point B, autistic thinking can branch out like a network — seeing connections, details, and patterns others might miss.
This is why many autistic people have strong special interests and a deep ability to hyperfocus on specific topics.
However, this nonlinear thinking can also create challenges in environments built for NTs, especially when sensory overload or social misunderstandings occur.
4. AuDHD (Autism + ADHD): The Organized Chaos
The final drawing looks like a storm of zig-zags and lines all overlapping. That’s AuDHD — when someone has both Autism and ADHD traits.
ADHD brings distractibility, impulsivity, and inconsistent focus.
Autism brings deep focus, need for structure, and sensitivity to sensory input.
When combined, these traits can sometimes feel contradictory. For example:
Wanting structure (autism) but struggling to stick to it (ADHD).
Getting hyperfocused (autism) but also easily distracted (ADHD).
Having brilliant ideas and creativity, but feeling stuck in executive dysfunction.
It can feel like living in constant chaos — but it also comes with unique strengths, like creativity, innovation, and the ability to see the world from perspectives that others overlook.
The Takeaway
This visual reminds us that there’s no single “right” way for a brain to function.
NT brains may be linear and predictable.
ADHD brains bring bursts of creativity and energy.
Autistic brains bring depth, pattern recognition, and unique insights.
AuDHD brains are a storm of contradictions, but also a powerhouse of perspective and innovation.
Instead of viewing these differences as flaws, society needs to embrace them as part of neurodiversity — the natural variety in human brains. Every line, whether straight or chaotic, is valid.
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Glaucia Barbosa is the owner of Helpland Emotional Support Centre. She is a Psychotherapist and a registered Clinical Counsellor in Brisbane, Queensland, Australia, with a Clinical membership at Queensland Counsellor Association (QCA) 20180401 and at the Psychotherapy and Counselling Federation of Australia PACFA Reg. Provisional 25212.
Her professional background includes a Bachelor degree, Honors and Licentiate in Psychology CRP/05 24517 completed in 1989 in Brazil where she is still registered as a Psychologist and qualified to practice (Glaucia is not registered as a Psychologist in Australia). She has also completed a Human Resources Management Specialist and a 5 year Analytical Group-therapy Specialist post graduation trainings in Brazil where she worked as a Psychologist for 17 years.
Furthermore, Glaucia has completed, in Australia, a Certificate III in Children's Services, Aged Care, Community Services and a Master of Counselling at The University of Queensland.
Glaucia is passionate about helping people. She provides a safe and confidential environment and develops with her clients a trustful and caring therapeutic relationship.
Her professional experience was acquired working over 30 years in private and community settings.
In Brazil she has provided career guidance and emotional support for university entrance test for teenagers, assessment for children over 6 with schooling and behavioral problems, and individual and Group Therapy to adult clients experiencing chronic mental illness. She participated as a volunteer in several community works helping homeless people and people with substance abuse problems. She has also provided workshops and psycho educational sessions for health professionals and the community.
Living in Australia since 2006, Glaucia worked as a Counsellor in several organizations with children, adolescents, adults and couples: She was a Counsellor at Drug Arm working with mandated and voluntary male clients who have committed crimes, experienced or perpetrated domestic and family violence and sexual abuse, she was a Family Counsellor at a Women’s Refuge and at The Uniting Care Community assisting women and children who experienced Domestic and Family Violence, she was a Counsellor Advocate at QPASTT and a Mental Health Counsellor and Case Manager at Harmony Place using interpreter services to work with refugees and asylum seekers who experienced torture and war related trauma. She was also a Program Area Coordinator of a community connection program with Royal Brisbane and Human Hospital supervising a team of volunteers and providing emotional support to adult inpatients who attempted su***de, drug abuse, or suffered from a mental illness and were living in the hospital wards.
In addition, she developed and was a Counsellor Group Facilitator of a support group for parents of children with disabilities and threatened illness receiving palliative care at a Hospice and a Group facilitator of a Women’s Migrant Support Group for 9 years. She developed and delivered several well-being information sessions at Toowong Chiropractic Center aiming community education. Some of the subjects discussed were: stress, anxiety, depression, su***de thoughts, self-harm, grief and loss and domestic violence.
Coming from Brazil in January 2006 and having experienced the process of immigration herself, she became sensitive to cultural differences regarding beliefs, roles, values and expectations, which also enabled her to provide support and information to immigrants who are experiencing challenges related to the immigration and settlement process, such as homesickness, culture shock, language and working barriers.
Utilizing her knowledge of the Australian higher education sector and her lived experience as an immigrant dealing with the issues and challenges of living and studying overseas, she developed a workshop called "Psychological Survival Guide for International Students in Australia”. She delivered this workshop to students at a travel agency for a period of one year. The workshop explained the pre and post-migration stressors and the challenges experienced by international students such as: the cultural shock, loneliness, homesickness, language barrier, the brain reaction to stress and stress symptoms. It also showed a number of self-care strategies and coping skills to improve the students mental health and well-being. Invited by the Honorary Brazilian Consulate in Brisbane, she also facilitated this workshop at the Protea College for more than 50 students.
Since 2014 she has concurrently working in Private Practice in Brisbane as a Psychotherapist and Clinical Counsellor providing Integrative Counselling to children, adolescents, adults and couples experiencing mental illness and mental health issues such as: Stress, Anxiety, Depression, drug and alcohol abuse, low self-esteem, bullying, grief and loss, trauma and complex trauma, suicidal thoughts, self-harm (Trichotillomania), health issues, life stage adjustments, occupational issues, relationship issues, sexual abuse, domestic violence, spiritual concerns, Adjustment Disorder, Paranoid Personality Disorder, Phobias, Panic attack, Borderline Disorder, Bipolar Disorder, Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD), mood and eating disorders, Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD).
Counsellor is a trained talking therapist who needs to have knowledge about all therapeutic approaches and how to apply them to facilitate healing for mental disorders and mental issues as well as helping clients to find the best solution to their problems. Counsellor is a profession which does not exist in Brazil. According to QCA and PACFA code of ethics a Counsellor who is a registered member of QCA and PACFA can also be called a "Practitioner" or Therapist.
As a Psychotherapist and Holistic Counsellor, Glaucia was trained to use not only talking therapy but several other approaches according to the client's needs and their style of personality to express themselves such as: Psychoanalytical Psychotherapy, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), Person Centered Approach, Neuropsychotherapy, Attachment Theory, Motivational Interviewing, Solution Focused Therapy, Feminist Approach, Psycho-dynamics, Attachment theory, Gestalt Therapy, Narrative Expressive Therapy(NET),Psych-k(R),Trauma Informed Practice, Strengths Based Approach, Sand-Play therapy and The Gottman Model for couples.
To book a face-to-face, online or home visit session please contact Glaucia Barbosa on helplandcentre@gmail.com or glauciaraad.b@gmail.com or call +61 07 0410 955 514.
