BleuDore

Offering a collection of Family Services & Therapy in Gladstone QLD

31/03/2026

💚BIG ANNOUNCEMENT💚
After much reflection, consultation, and at least three iced lattes, Ellie has made the executive decision to repaint the Blue Door… GREEN.

Which means… BleuDore is officially rebranding to:

GreanDore 💚🚪
(Yes… we know. We’re committed now.)

This bold new direction reflects our evolving practice values:
• Growth 🌱
• Fresh starts 🍃
• And the fact that someone bought the wrong paint colour 🎨

Changes effective immediately:
• BleuDore → GreanDore
• Blue branding → Various shades of “is that actually green?”
• “Connection before correction” → still the same… just greener
• Mila the Wonder Beagle → refuses change and will remain neutral

We understand this may take time for everyone to adjust.
Please update all referrals, invoices, and emotional attachments accordingly.

…or we could just leave the Blue Door alone 💙😂

20/03/2026

Unfiltered Friday!

Creating relational safety and humanising professionals by telling hilarious stories about the mistakes I make as a mum, parent and professional 🙌🏻

Do I have a story for you! Made even funnier by the fact that my children inherited their hearing loss from me, but am I on top of everything? Absolutely not 😂

19/03/2026

Today Gav, fondly known as ‘The Car Seat Guy’ delivered our BleuDore ‘Child Restraint Training for Family Services’ to Child Protection agency Foundation’s Care!

I tell you what, sending your (Firefighter) Husband into your professional world (Child Protection) entirely unsupervised, is slightly terrifying, even though he delivers this training regularly to different organisations, FDC is pretty close to my heart!

Nonetheless the feedback was amazing! I sent him with strict instructions not to tell any war stories and he almost obliged 😑
Given the great feedback that was related to the real life relevance which made it interesting and informative… I’ll let it slide this time!

Thank you Foundation’s Care CQ!

17/03/2026

CPPAQ (Child Protection Practitioners Association of QLD) members received an email this morning. This email contains a link to a survey, gathering the views of the membership base to inform CPPAQs submission to the Commission of Inquiry into the Child Safety System.
All responses are anonymous unless you choose to put your email at the end.
All questions are optional, so you can skip anything that you need to.

If you’re not a member of the CPPAQ and you are a CP Practitioner, you should absolutely join! www.cppaq.com.au

Have a great day everyone

12/03/2026

Unfiltered Friday! A new tagline and another ‘keeping in real’ story 🙌🏻

I might be a Behaviour Nerd but that doesn’t mean things don’t go wrong in my life and my parenting.

This week has been pretty intense across all domains, particularly with such a huge weather event on the weekend and Monday.

My children lost all of the consistency, autonomy, choice and control that we normally try to weave through our pretty chaotic life. When we don’t give children elements of choice and control, they’ll find a way to access it. Even by saying ‘NO’ to sunscreen and being a bit of a smart Alec.

How can you empower your child with a little bit more autonomy this weekend?

11/03/2026

Mila the Wonder Beagle, Therapy Pup in the making… is learning how to ignore food and oh the drama 😂

But she’s doing very well! Much to her disgust 😂😍👏🏻

08/03/2026

Happy International Women’s Day 💜

This morning I had the pleasure of attending the Zonta Club of Gladstone International Women’s Day Breakfast, and as always it was a wonderful event. Every year this breakfast brings together incredible women from across our community, and this year was no exception.

I was lucky enough to attend with the Gladstone Women's Health Centre Board and team. Being on the GWHC Board is such an honour, and spending a Sunday morning surrounded by such a powerhouse group of women who are passionate about supporting and advocating for women in our community is truly special.

This year’s theme, ‘Balancing the Scales’ is something we can all contribute to every single day, not just in our workplaces or communities, but also in our homes.

Even in parenting.

Jess Simpson ‘Head of Governance & Social Procurement’ for BHP was the guest speaker this morning and she said ‘challenge the biases in the moment’ and that really resonated with me. We all need to do it.

At work.
At home.
Even in our own parenting.

We balance the scales when we demonstrate respect to our children so they learn what respect looks like.
When we show them how to repair relationships after a rupture.
When we ask for a ‘redo’ when we get it wrong.
And when we model the kind of behaviour we want them to expect and accept from others later in life.

Because if we don’t want our daughters growing up to accept a future partner demanding compliance… we probably can’t set them up to accept us demanding it either.

(Thankfully that lesson comes fairly naturally when you’re raising a red-headed little girl 😂)

Here’s to the women who advocate, lead, support, nurture and challenge the status quo every day.

Happy International Women’s Day. 💜

06/03/2026

TBRI Thursday… on a Friday 🫣

Felt safety isn’t built in the big moments.
It’s built in the tiny, predictable ones.

The same goodbye every morning.
The same snack after school.
The same calm voice when things go sideways.

These micro moments of predictability tell a child’s nervous system:
You’re safe here. I know what happens next.

When children don’t feel safe, their brains stay in survival mode.
But when life becomes a little more predictable, connection grows, regulation improves, and behaviour starts to shift.
That’s when the bigger issues can be addressed.

Small moments. Repeated often.
That’s where felt safety lives.

02/03/2026

Commission of Inquiry into Child Safety System… buckle up! I could make a mini series out of this 😂

We need to stop the double down on practitioners. There will always be the good the bad and the indifferent in any group of individuals. But ultimately, our Carers, Kids and Professionals are being traumatised by a system.

These issues extensively span both major parties being in power, stop the blame game and focus on relational resolution for the good of the sector.

Rant over! Have a great day!

26/02/2026

TBRI Thursday

Connection before Correction! I know I say it all the time, but that’s because it works.

A great school based example today. Shout out to Mr G & the other teachers in this stakeholder group for getting it so right 👏🏻

23/02/2026

🔥🚒 BIG CONGRATULATIONS GAV! 🚒🔥

Today we’re celebrating BleuDore Director Gavin Thomas (affectionately known in our world as The Car Seat Guy) for completing the Rapid Intervention Team (RIT) Instructor Course over at his day job with the Queensland Fire Department.

A Rapid Intervention Team (RIT) is a dedicated crew of firefighters whose sole focus is firefighter safety. If a firefighter becomes lost, trapped, injured, or disoriented inside a burning or hazardous structure, the RIT is deployed immediately to locate and rescue their own. (See I was listening when he talked about it!)

As a RIT Instructor, Gav is can now train and mentor other firefighters in these techniques.

And we are incredibly proud ❤️🔥

Address

Gladstone, QLD

Website

http://www.bleudore.com.au/

Alerts

Be the first to know and let us send you an email when BleuDore posts news and promotions. Your email address will not be used for any other purpose, and you can unsubscribe at any time.

Contact The Practice

Send a message to BleuDore:

Shortcuts

Want your practice to be the top-listed Clinic in Gladstone?