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http://www.thebiggerpictureclinic.com.au/

The Bigger Picture Clinic, 214 Glen Huntly Road Elsternwick, Melbourne (2026)

31/12/2025

As 2025 comes to a close, I want to take a moment to acknowledge and thank every single person who walked through the doors of The Bigger Picture Clinic this year.

Whether you came for individual therapy, group therapy, spinal energetics, shiatsu, or simply arrived exactly as you were, however you showed up, your presence mattered.

2025, symbolised by the Year of the Snake, invited truth. Often the kind we sense quietly but haven’t yet felt ready to face. It asked for shedding, honesty, and deep internal work. For many within our community, this year also carried profound darkness, pain, and uncertainty, and still, you chose to keep showing up. That is not something we take lightly.

This has been the clinic’s biggest year to date. Our biggest year for referrals, growth, and connection. It also held both grief and celebration, farewelling some truly incredible therapists as they stepped into their next chapters, while warmly welcoming new clinicians who have enriched this space in beautiful ways.

None of this exists without the people who bring the clinic to life each day, our clients, clinicians, facilitators, and wider community. This space is built on trust, courage, and relationship, and I am deeply grateful for every part you have played in it.

As we move toward 2026, the Year of the Horse brings themes of momentum, movement, and forward energy. With several new clinicians already joining the space, I feel excited and hopeful about what lies ahead.

From every part of myself, thank you.
For trusting us.
For walking through the door.
For doing the work, especially when it was hard.

The Year of the Snake has been an absolute doozy for so many of us.
And still, here we are.

I can’t wait to see how we continue to grow together in 2026. 🤍

— Monique
Director, The Bigger Picture Clinic

24/12/2025

It’s said with a smile and a lot of truth.

The end of the year is emotionally loaded for so many people.
It can stir up grief, longing, resentment, nostalgia, loneliness, pressure, or old family roles that resurface without invitation.

For some, family is close.
For others, they’re far away, in another country, another season, another life.
Some are estranged.
Some are missing people they once had.
Some are navigating relationships that are complicated, tender, or unsafe.

And all of that can coexist alongside celebration.

Support during this time isn’t indulgent ,it’s grounding.
It’s a place to make sense of what comes up, to breathe, to steady yourself, and to honour your experience exactly as it is.

If this season feels heavy or confusing, you’re not alone 🤍

20/12/2025

Just like every Christmas character plays a role, every therapy style offers something different.
No matter how you’re showing up this season, our clinic has you covered. With a team of diverse clinicians offering talk therapy, somatic approaches, body-based work, and integrative modalities, we’re here to meet you where you are, and walk with you from there.

20/12/2025

Just like every Christmas character plays a role, every therapy style offers something different.
No matter how you’re showing up this season, our clinic has you covered. With a team of diverse clinicians offering talk therapy, somatic approaches, body-based work, and integrative modalities, we’re here to meet you where you are, and walk with you from there.

14/12/2025

As a Gestalt psychotherapist, my work is grounded in the belief that meaningful change emerges through authentic connection, present-centred awareness, and the trust that grows in a safe, attuned relationship. I’m drawn to the subtle ways we disconnect from ourselves - the patterns that once protected us but may now limit our capacity for choice and connection.

My multicultural background has given me a deep appreciation for how our cultural roots and early environments shape the way we see the world and relate to others. I hold space for these layers of influence, recognising that our personal histories are deeply intertwined with the broader social and cultural fields in which we live.

My years working in the community mental health sector, including within the NDIS, have given me a solid understanding of complex mental health and the systems people often have to navigate. They’ve deepened my sense of how personal and layered each person’s experience is, and the importance of offering support that is flexible, responsive, and attuned to what’s needed.

Alongside my private practice, I am also a yoga and meditation teacher and practitioner, with a long-standing interest in non-dual traditions and the ways they invite us into deeper presence and a fuller experience of life. These practices have taught me to hold the body as a place of knowing and to meet myself with a little more compassion and curiosity. This is how I try to meet others, too.

My approach is collaborative, relational, and alive to what emerges in the moment. Together, we pay attention to patterns, habits, and ways of relating that may no longer serve you, allowing more authentic, grounded, and flexible ways of being to come forward.

Sessions are $140 for 50 minutes.

website- https://journeytowholeness.com.au/

12/12/2025

Whether you’re a gingerbread-with-rules person, a mystery-fruitcake-feeler, a somatic-sipper, or an “accidentally ate the cookie dough” soul… don’t worry.
Our clinicians cover the whole buffet.
Talk therapy, somatics, energetics, bodywork, nervous system work, whatever you need, we’ve got a therapist (and a snack) for that.

27/11/2025

Recently, I had the privilege of seeing David Kessler speak at the Psychotherapy Innovations Conference in Anaheim this October, where he shared deeply on this exact topic: When grief meets trauma. He spoke about how trauma doesn’t just create fear or shattering, it creates grief. Grief for who or what was lost, grief for the life that changed in an instant, and grief for the version of ourselves that existed before the event. His words were a powerful reminder that trauma and grief are inseparable threads, and understanding this helps us meet ourselves with more compassion, clarity, and spaciousness as they move through both.

21/11/2025

Last week I completed my first round of IFS intensives for formal certification, and it was a ride full of highs, lows, and everything in between. I spent the week meeting my own protectors, sitting with my firefighters, and even touching into the tender exiles. Hard, humbling, beautiful work… and I’m genuinely grateful for all of it.

Even the place where the training was held took time for me to lean into. I noticed a lot of resistance to the space itself and that, too, became part of the work. This is what IFS invites us into: getting curious about every part that steps in, including the ones that want to push back, resist, or go blank.

I was so humbled by the humans I met, the ones I leaned into, and even the ones who activated me. Each of you offered me something to keep learning about myself, and I’m deeply thankful for that.

A heartfelt shout-out to any of my clients I’ve met through the treatment space. After last week, I have an even deeper respect for you, for living, breathing, eating, and meeting all your parts in such an intense environment. That week gave me a small taste of what that really asks of you.

In the words of Janina Fisher: “How do we befriend parts of ourselves?”
The answer is the same way we befriend anyone, with interest, curiosity, and compassion.

I’m cautiously excited for the next set of intensives online, ready to meet whatever parts show up next.

And after such a big week, it felt so good to fly home to Poppet and take the time to nurture my own parts again - slowly, gently, and with the softness they deserved.

Here’s to all our parts, and to the courage it takes to meet them.

14/11/2025

Therapists be like: “Manifesting a light gossip session… but prepared for a generational-healing plot arc.”
Because that’s therapy - equal parts humour, heartbreak, healing and human.
Every part belongs.

Happy Saturday from The Bigger Picture Clinic.

13/11/2025

Welcoming Indie to the Clinic 🩵

I came to be a therapist after a big transition from a previous life. I work with a simple belief: everyone deserves to be truly heard and accepted for who they are, not who they think they should be. My first and foremost goal is to create a safe space for you, where we can unpack the challenges life has thrown at you together.
As an integrative therapist, I don’t subscribe to a single therapeutic school or rigid approach. Instead, I’ve trained extensively across multiple modalities—ACT, Person-Centered Therapy, Gestalt, Psychodynamic, Narrative, and Creative Therapies—because I’ve learned that different people need different things at different times.
I weave these approaches together based on what you need, not based on what my training says I “should” do. This is your therapy, and it should fit you. Because life is not simple or straightforward, but rather a windy road, that sometimes contains treacherous terrain. I know because I have lived some of these times myself.
But here’s what doesn’t change, regardless of approach: I listen. Really, deeply listen. I create a non-judgmental space where you can be completely yourself—messy, confused, contradictory, vulnerable. I don’t rush to fix you or offer shallow advice. I trust that you have wisdom within you, and my job is to help you access it.
I work with adults navigating all kinds of struggles: anxiety that won’t quiet, depression that feels overwhelming, relationships that confuse or hurt, life transitions that shake your sense of self, past experiences that still haunt you, and that persistent feeling of being stuck or lost.
I am also very interested in the context that we find ourselves in, in todays day and age, where there is growing numbers around mental health, that demonstrate a downwards trajectory in how people are feeling about the world, others and themselves. However, so much of the blame for this is piled on the individual, but I am interested in the context, and what is going in our world, society and culture to bring us here. And how can we change it.
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31/10/2025

Happy Halloween from The Bigger Picture Clinic 🎃

30/10/2025

We all carry haunted houses inside us — places where old memories creak, boundaries slam, and ghosts of the past still whisper.

Healing isn’t about burning the house down — it’s about turning the lights on, room by room.

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