Thrive Wellness and Consulting

10/11/2025

🔥 FATHER / FATHER-FIGURE & SON EXPERIENCE GIVEAWAY 🔥

We’re excited to announce that we are teaming up with Courage & Crowns - Megan Simpson to gift one family a full pass to Courage + Codes on November 30th in Bendigo, facilitated by Matt.

This experience is for boys aged 10–15 and the father or father-figure in their life.... and yes, brothers can come along too!

It’s a workshop built for real connection, real conversations, and giving boys a space to understand themselves with someone they trust beside them.🤝

HOW TO ENTER:

✅ Like this post

✅ Share it to your page

✅ Private message or comment Thrive Wellness and Consulting with the word “ready”

Winner will be contacted privately this Friday!!🎉

If you’ve been waiting for the right moment to give your boy or boys something meaningful… this is it.👌

08/11/2025

🎉 Happy Birthday, Jenny 🎉

Thank you for being that person who quietly makes things better just by being around. You bring such a calm, kindness, and resilience to the Thrive team and to everyone you support.

You have a way of helping people feel safe to just be themselves which is a true gift. We’re so lucky to have you with us in the Thrive family.🙏

Hope your day’s full of good people, good food, and a bit of time to breathe, Jenny.🎈🎂

07/11/2025

Kids don’t mean to misbehave (although it can feel like that some days!)....they are usually trying to communicate in the only way they know how.😌

When a kid melts down, the world is quick to label it:
“naughty,”
“rude,”
“attention-seeking.”

But kids aren’t built with adult tools.
They’ve got huge feelings and tiny containers to hold them in.
So their behaviour speaks for them.

And here’s the part parents don’t hear enough:
Most of us are doing the best we can with the knowledge, energy, and bandwidth we've got.
We're juggling life, work, stress, our own history…
and still trying to raise a small human/s who feels everything at volume eleven!

At Thrive, we hold space for both sides.
The kid who’s overwhelmed
and the parent who’s quietly carrying more than people realise.

There’s no shame in not having it all figured out.
There’s strength in showing up, learning, and trying again.

🧸 Behaviour is a message.
🌿 "Attention seeking" could mean connection seeking
💛 And most parents are doing better than they think.

We see you, we're with you on this journey. We have many clinicians at Thrive with lived experience in this particular area. Reach out if you’re needing extra support.💛

07/11/2025

We have been keeping a secret, or maybe it’s just a surprise

This is a hard post for me to write. Our beautiful building at 107 Wills Street is the epitome of who we are: calm, grounded, old and trusted, a mended crack to show our life experience. Well you get the idea. It’s been our home in Bendigo for the past three years and a very safe place for many.

You walk in and it just feels like a home. The lavender blooming, the growing fruit trees we planted to help provide to the community and the soft spongy carpet we really love. I could rave on and on about it. Many know I already do.

But we have made the tough but exciting decision to move buildings. Please don’t panic! We don’t like change like this sometimes either, but we have taken many things into consideration to find just the right building for us and for our Bendigo Thrive community.

Don’t worry we aren’t moving far. In fact we will be able to use furniture trolleys to wheel our furniture just up the street. The new building is on the same block, has an additional therapy room which will also help us to offer groups in 2026 (woot woot yay) and there is some onsite parking. The lovely owners of this building have been working hard to restore and renovate it to welcome us in there soon. We are working to have greater disability access to the building and a bigger administration space to increase our admin team coverage for Bendigo in the future.

Another heritage style building, with lots of character, easier to find and closer to more parking. It’s also closer to the train station for anyone that needs to commute.

We will be finalising our move in date soon but we are letting you all know now to help people have time to adjust. We will be sharing details of the new building soon (it’s on the same block 🙂

So if you see our beautiful 107 Wills street building up for lease, don’t panic, we are only moving just up the street and Thrive will continue to provide services to our amazing community.

If you are a service provider or looking to start a service and want to consider leasing 107 Wills Street please don’t hesitate to contact us. It’s an absolutely beautiful building with owners that cherish every part of it. Maybe this is your next business home and safe place.

More details to come soon about the new building… given it’s on the same block I wonder if anyone has worked it out yet or wants to guess below.

Enjoy outstanding visibility on busy Wills Street along with a private, professional environment where your business can thrive. Perfectly positioned in Bendigo’s lively CBD, this location offers everything you need to grow and succeed.Key Features Include:- 3 consulting rooms & rec...

06/11/2025

When someone isn’t ready to talk....

At Thrive, we often meet people who’ve been through a lot but don’t feel ready to open up yet. That’s completely understandable and normal. When life has been heavy, talking can feel like too much pressure.

Our approach is simple and human. No jargon, no clinical vibe, no pushing. Just a calm space where people can move at their own pace and be met exactly where they are. Our experienced clinicians understand that this is where true healing takes place.🌿

If you’re trying to support someone who isn’t ready for formal help, there are gentler ways forward. If you want to chat about what that could look like, we’re here.💛

06/11/2025

05/11/2025

Get in quick! Viv has one last assessment spot available for 2025 and it includes an appointment option on Saturday 22nd of November 😄 total dedication for helping people on a weekend ❤️
To find out more or take up this last opportunity with Viv for the year contact us:
Call 0354823143
Email admin@thrivewellnessandconsulting.com
Or send us a message here via Facebook

04/11/2025

How relaxing does this look? This was all set up by Matt yesterday in preparation for a client's first Breathwork Session. This is an amazing way to let go of so many things that are not serving you any more. Breathwork can be a simple, same and extremely effective process for experiencing breakthroughs and optimising wellness in your life. It can result in intense physical and emotional releases that helps people to get out of feeling "stuck" or "held back" or "trapped."

We have had some amazing feedback about how people have felt after their Breathwork sessions and how this has helped them moving forward.

To find out more check out our website: https://www.thrivewellnessandconsulting.com/our-services.html

To book a Breathwork Session with Matt at our Bendigo office, please contact us or book through our online booking system here: https://www.halaxy.com/book/appointment/thrive-wellness-and-consulting/location/595841/select-time

03/11/2025

Although our Echuca office is closed today, Bendigo is still open and thriving with lots of pretty lavender blooming out the front.
If you would like more information about our service or you would like to book an appointment: we are still available via phone today too 🙂

02/11/2025

In 2019 we had 1 clinical team member in Bendigo. Now we have 10 and growing. We also have a dedicated administration team that assists people coming into our Bendigo office. A huge thank you to everyone that has accessed our Bendigo service so far over the years and a huge thank you to all that keep referring to us.

As you know, it is a passion of ours to ensure that people can get access to clinical treatment when they need it. For this reason, we keep monitoring the demands, increasing our clinical capacity and trying our best to get our name out there within the community.

❤If you would like to help us, or help someone you may know, please share our post so it can reach more and more people. Who knows, perhaps a family member or close friend of yours has been thinking about trying to get some help but wasn't sure where to start? Or perhaps they have been calling around to services and keep getting blocked with long waiting lists. We have appointments available this week! ❤

Check out our website for a bio of each clinical team member or contact us to find out more.

30/10/2025

Feeling like you are constantly tired? Not feeling refreshed when you are waking up? Perhaps there is a level of emotional exhausted or mental fatigue that you haven’t felt before.

These feelings could be indications of lots of things including but not limited to:
- Less quality sleep or disrupted sleep
- Not enough hours of sleep
- Higher levels of stress
- Burnout or doing too much
- Lack of effective self care

Did you know that access psychological support can help with all of the above and more?

Reach out now. You are not alone

28/10/2025

Absolutely love this post that was recently shared in the Autism Awareness and Parent Support Group page
“This insightful guide breaks down the 3 functional levels of autism from an autistic perspective, challenging stereotypes and reminding everyone that behind every level is a person who hears, understands, and deserves respect. 💙”