The Psych Edit

The Psych Edit Welcome to The Psych Edit, a psychology clinic in Kenmore that sees the person behind the diagnosis.

Uh oh there you go again 🫣, feeling that slow drain of hope, watching the sparkle ✨in your eyes fade to a dull glaze, an...
27/10/2025

Uh oh there you go again 🫣, feeling that slow drain of hope, watching the sparkle ✨in your eyes fade to a dull glaze, and asking yourself:

“How did I end up here again? 😣This one was meant to be a keeper! They were meant to keep me floating on this cloud ⛅️ of joy”

“But now I’m noticing the silences, the lack of responsiveness, heck let’s face it…the avoidance”. 😔

And yes there it is again….you’ve landed yet another emotionally unavailable partner. Pattern emerging? It’s not a stream of bad luck 🍀 , it could be because you’re keeping yourself safe ⛔️from having to really reveal yourself…and who better to stop you doing that than someone who is terrified of doing the same themselves? 🚪

And so the dance 🩷💃 of yearning 😔and disappointment continues.

So hop off the dance floor 🪩and start looking at what it is you don’t want to expose about yourself?
- [ ] What is it that you want to keep buried 🙈deep inside and not have anyone see?
- [ ] You’ll know you’re close when you feel a stab of anxiety about some aspect from your past, and you feel yourself shutting it straight down.
- [ ] It could be distrust from an early relationship where you gave all of yourself and ended up hurt
- [ ] Or it could be a feeling of shame you carry from how someone treated you or made you feel.

Whatever it is, it’s powerful enough to warrant your own emotional shut down.

Instead of stepping back into old habits of emotional 💔 , have a think about exploring 🗺️what it is that you are anxious about looking at within yourself.



You know those moments when thoughts seem to be looping around your head 🤯, on repeat? And you find yourself having imag...
22/10/2025

You know those moments when thoughts seem to be looping around your head 🤯, on repeat? And you find yourself having imaginary conversations 🙊with the person involved in the issue you just can’t stop thinking about. And it’s distracting, and perplexing and tbh really annoying 😣 I expect you ask yourself why can’t I stop thinking about this thing! Well it could be that you’re engaging in the thinking, the over analysis, the problem on repeat discussions with yourself and others, because it’s too painful or difficult to sit with the actual feelings behind it. And let’s face it, sometimes we’re not even sure what the feelings are behind it! 🆘A couple of techniques that can really help you uncover these feelings are tapping 🖐️and journalling. Tapping is brilliant for discovering what’s really going on behind overthinking, why you are triggered and the best part is that just the process of understanding diminishes the worry within minutes. Journal 📝 it out, write down what you think is going on, then ask yourself why this bothers you, then ask yourself what past wound or fear is this issue triggering in you. Keep on going until you get there and you’ll find enormous relief. We love tapping at the Psych Edit so if you’re really stuck call us up on ☎️0405 983109 and we’ll get to the root of things for you.



You know that hottie you’ve been seeing, how they’ve taken over your brain 🧠and you can’t think of anyone or anything el...
21/10/2025

You know that hottie you’ve been seeing, how they’ve taken over your brain 🧠and you can’t think of anyone or anything else 💭? And you’re hanging out for a text 💬, a loving moment 💕, anything to make you feel that this obsession could turn into a long term love? But you’re left unread, that loving moment is followed by multiple instances of being let down 😔emotionally injured, feeling panicked 🫦that they’re withdrawing from you? And it feels like the most intense but painful emotional roller coaster 🎢 ride of your life? But as bad as this feels, you can’t let go 😟😥 You know it’s eroding your self respect, eroding any sense of stability you had worked so hard to achieve, but you still justify it as chemistry and tbh you probably haven’t felt this switched on 🎰since the last intense romance. Take a step back and look at this feeling, does it remind you of how you used to feel as a child? Ask yourself whether you felt truly emotionally safe as a child, perhaps love felt unpredictable or conditional ⚠️. What’s happening is that your nervous system is recognising a similar level of inconsistency and lack of safety from your childhood. This “spark” “electricity” 💡isn’t romance or chemistry, that’s your nervous system reacting to what feels familiar to you. And because it feels familiar, your anxiety at some level reduces. You’re used to this chaos, but that doesn’t mean that this electric feeling is chemistry. That spark ⚡️ : it’s anxiety dressed as romance ❤️‍🩹. To save yourself a good few decades of this old wound bleeding, work on the wound not the dodgy band aid 🩹 and help it heal.


Even the idea of setting boundaries is terrifying for people. But if you wait to feel strong enough to set a boundary, s...
20/10/2025

Even the idea of setting boundaries is terrifying for people. But if you wait to feel strong enough to set a boundary, so much more damage will be done before you set that boundary. The reality is you’re better off just doing it, set that boundary, and your emotions will sort themselves out. Do it and watch your anxiety will dissipate faster than you ever imagined!



Ughhhhhh! 😢😳You’re lying in bed 🛌, having reluctantly woken up from a soft bucolic sleep and you slowly remember it’s Mo...
19/10/2025

Ughhhhhh! 😢😳You’re lying in bed 🛌, having reluctantly woken up from a soft bucolic sleep and you slowly remember it’s Monday again. You feel your heart 💓 begin to flutter and the slow dread build in your stomach. Turns out you’re not a feather 🪶 weight; we all suffer from the cost of adapting from the relaxing tempo of the weekend to the perceived stress of the week….it hits the body and brain like jet lag ✈️ on repeat. And because your lovely brain 🧠 is always on the alert for any threat to your survival, what does it do? It anticipates all the things that could go wrong, doing a very efficient sweep 🧹 of your emotional memory bank 🏦 of weeks where things were hard and the dread was on point. And it conveniently forgets all the weeks that were winners 🥇. So do a switch 🎚️around and actively reframe Monday as a fresh start, a chance to set new intentions 📝for the week you want/deserve/yearn to have. Who knows you could be pleasantly surprised and best of all by reframing your week, your stress level reduces by around 40%! My waistline is happy with that 😉

Ok maybe “tripled” is a bit of a stretch, but doing these three things will certainly put you in the right mindset for t...
19/10/2025

Ok maybe “tripled” is a bit of a stretch, but doing these three things will certainly put you in the right mindset for the day. Try to seize those quiet moments at the beginning of the day before anyone in the house stirs, and you’ll feel ahead of the game before the rest of the house has even blinked! Winning!

17/10/2025

Ok I admit 9pm seems indecently early to be hitting the sack! 😳Blimey it feels like such a cop out to slope off to bed 🛌 when everyone else is only getting started on their Netflix 📺binges with a big bar of Cadbury’s 🍫and the remnants of a good red 🍷to quaff…:but push away the feelings of FOMO and try it! Turns out that between 9 and 10pm is the golden window 🪟of setting yourself up for sleep success 🏆All the hormones that sweep 🧹 you into the land of nod 🙂‍↕️ are at their highest: the stress hormone cortisol is at its lowest, so those worry thoughts are less likely to be racing around your mind, and melatonin (the sleep 💤 hormone) is at its highest, so your body is ready to embrace rest. Turning off that wretched phone 📱 a good 30 mins before bed really works, and go one step further, pop it down in another room so your brain 🧠 can really switch off from that alert state when it knows it is close by. Similarly if you’re worried about something, write it down in your journal 📝 with a pencil ✏️ (expending the energy to push down on the paper helps lower the stress associated w the thought) and shut that journal, telling yourself, “I will deal with this tomorrow, for now I am closing this down”.

It is normal to feel overwhelmed and anxious during stressful moments, but it is important to bring ourselves back befor...
23/09/2025

It is normal to feel overwhelmed and anxious during stressful moments, but it is important to bring ourselves back before our worries carry us away 🍃 Grounding techniques are a powerful tool to shift your focus away from anxious thoughts and worries to the immediate, tangible reality of your surroundings, helping you to interrupt anxiety’s thought spiral and reconnect with the present 🧘‍♀️

Ask yourself, what are:
👀 5 things you can see?
✋4 things you can touch?
👂3 things you can hear?
👃2 things you can smell?
👅1 thing you can taste?

I don’t know about you but I grew up thinking creativity was almost an indulgence, a luxury, unless of course if what I ...
18/09/2025

I don’t know about you but I grew up thinking creativity was almost an indulgence, a luxury, unless of course if what I was creating was to benefit others, say cooking a meal 🥘 or sewing a cushion as a gift for someone 🎁. But after a recent bout of health issues, I consulted an Ayurvedic doctor doctor 👩‍⚕️ on ways to improve my immune system. She recommended dedicating a day, yes a day, a week to creative pursuits 😊No sloping off to do the house work 🧹 or the grocery shop shop🛒or even a stint on the lap top, no it needs to be dedicated time to reach a state of flow, that sense of immersion in the creative project where time ⏰ ceases to have meaning. She emphasised that creativity wasn’t a luxury, instead it is a necessity to help me deal with stress. This is because creative activities activate our parasympathetic nervous system 🧘‍♀️, our body’s natural “rest and digest” mode. Bring it on, shelve the guilt and get those creative juices flowing! I can feel my fingers twitching already! 👐

Whenever I am trying to understand 📚 why people act the way they do, I often bring it right back to what we would have d...
16/07/2025

Whenever I am trying to understand 📚 why people act the way they do, I often bring it right back to what we would have done in caveman times. Turns out very little has changed since then in terms of our subconscious motivations and fears. So when clients express guilt that by rejecting their parents’ behaviours or values, they are essentially rejecting them completely, I explain that that is precisely what they are meant to be doing in terms of identity development. Trouble is that given the way our parents treat us is our first window 🪟 to the world 🌍 of how we predict others will perceive us, they have a disproportionately powerful impact on our identity formation. We are wired to align with their models of self and their values, because at an unconscious level we equate sameness as guaranteeing inclusion in the tribe and therefore survival 💕🧑‍🧑‍🧒‍🧒. And prior to adolescence, we really do need them to keep us alive. But when we hit adolescence, our surge🚀 of hormones means we are wired to seek out a potential mate. To ensure the survival of the species, that mate needs to be from a tribe outside of our family one, and so we are really invested in how do we need to appear, act, identify in order to be deemed worthy of inclusion to an outside tribe. For adolescents, this a painful and contentious time: we need to understand our individuality but at a subliminal level we fear 😧 rejection from the family if we demonstrate our difference. So difference feels like a rebellion, a risk rather than what it is: a necessary stage of separation from our family of origin to find our own tribe. Finding others that share our interests and enhance our existence doesn’t need to mean rejection of our family tribe, it can co exist along side it, with the family being the source of nurture 🥙and love ❤️ and the chosen family/tribe being the platform for our own development and understanding of self. Of course that’s the ideal, but when parents have their own unmet needs that they protection onto the children to fulfil, you’ve got a whole hornets 🐝 nest of detangling to do.

Let’s give a warm welcome to our new Mental Health Social Worker Shane Addicott ☀️Are you having trouble finding support...
29/05/2025

Let’s give a warm welcome to our new Mental Health Social Worker Shane Addicott ☀️

Are you having trouble finding support? Or are you keen to skip a months-long wait time for a support service? We are pleased to announce that we have welcomed a new Mental Health Social Worker to The Psych Edit team! 🌱

Shane is an accredited mental health social worker registered with the Australian Association of Social Workers (AASW) with over 10 years of counselling experience in a wide range of settings. He is passionate about improving the lives of others, and works with individual adults, children, adolescents, couples and families 🦋

He works to build and nurture each client’s confidence in themselves, their ability to achieve their therapeutic goals and foster resilience to navigate life challenges effectively🌷

He offers both face to face and Telehealth appointments to accomodate today’s busy lifestyles 💼

Please call Karlia at The Psych Edit on 0405 983 109 to book your appointment today!

Vulnerability is the key to love, belonging, joy, and creativity. 🌸 It allows us to embrace and showcase our true, authe...
08/04/2025

Vulnerability is the key to love, belonging, joy, and creativity. 🌸 It allows us to embrace and showcase our true, authentic selves, and foster meaningful connections with others. 🫂 If we alter our perception and see vulnerability as a strength and an opportunity for growth 🌱, rather than a weakness, we can empower ourselves and others to face challenges with courage and compassion. 💝

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Shop 11, The Courtyard, 2060 Moggill Road
Kenmore, QLD
4069

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Monday 8am - 6pm
Tuesday 8am - 6pm
Wednesday 8am - 8pm
Thursday 9am - 5pm
Friday 8am - 5pm
Saturday 9am - 5pm

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