Strong Minds Psychology

07/11/2025

🌡️ Mood Meter (Kid-Friendly) 😏

The Mood Meter is an excellent tool for understanding various emotions and emotional states. It categorises feelings on a scale that ranges from uncomfortable to comfortable and low to high energy, resulting in four unique emotional zones: high energy/uncomfortable, low energy/uncomfortable, high energy/comfortable, and low energy/comfortable.

This approach is beneficial for helping children recognise their emotions and differentiate between the comfort level and the energy of their emotional experiences. Importantly, this method avoids using terms like 'bad' or 'negative' to label feelings since emotions fluctuate, and we need all of them at different times.

Take a moment to check in with yourself—where do you find yourself on the mood meter? Now, check in with your family—are you all in the same quadrant or experiencing different emotional states?

30/10/2025

🎃👻 Happy Halloween, everyone! 🎃👻

Get ready for a spooktacular night filled with tricks and treats! Whether you're dressing up in your favourite costume to go trick-or-treating or dishing out the sweets, we hope you have a hauntingly good time.

Share your Halloween moments with us!

28/10/2025

Hats off to Australia’s teachers this World Teachers’ Day!

On October 31st, let’s celebrate the amazing teachers across Australia who inspire, support, and empower our children and young people every single day.

You can download ready-to-go ideas, activities, and inspiration to make the day extra special here: www.aitsl.edu.au/worldteachersday

27/10/2025

Celebrating OTs across the country for all the invaluable work they do to increase participation and quality of life

🎉 HAPPY OT WEEK 2025! 🎉

This week, we’re celebrating Occupational Therapy in Action - shining a spotlight on the incredible work OTs do every day to help people live life to the fullest. 💙

From hospitals to homes, classrooms to communities, OTs are making a difference wherever they go, supporting people to participate, connect, and thrive.

This week, we want to celebrate the passion, creativity, and commitment that define our profession.

Whether you’re hosting an event, sharing a story, or simply taking a moment to reflect, join the celebration and show us Occupational Therapy in Action! 🙌

📸 Share your photos, videos, or reflections using and tag OTA so we can share them with our wonderful community.

21/10/2025

October marks ADHD Awareness Month, and this year's theme for 2025 is "The Many Faces of ADHD!" ADHD, or Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder, is a neurotype that impacts individuals of all ages.

It is characterised by a persistent pattern of inattention and/or hyperactivity-impulsivity that impacts upon engagement in daily activities. Those with ADHD present with differences in sustaining attention, executive functioning (planning, decision making, starting and finishing tasks), and working memory. 🧠💡

There are a variety of cognitive and behavioural strategies, as well as reasonable accommodations at school, work or home that can help with managing challenges that present. These can be implemented instead of, or alongside, pharmacological treatment options.

At Strong Minds Psychology, we utilise a range of tools and methods to achieve positive outcomes for our clients.

If you or someone you know needs our services, please visit our website to learn more.

Feel free to reach out to us at 0359671438 or book online at www.strongmindspsychology.com.au/find-us/

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18/10/2025

Here are several ways to nurture positive thinking and enhance your emotions, such as joy and contentment.

Psychological well-being encompasses positive relationships, self-acceptance, a sense of purpose, personal growth, autonomy, and competence. It is associated with improved health, increased happiness, and longevity.

The good news is that you can enhance it by discovering meaning, promoting optimism, and building social support.

At Strong Minds Psychology, we implement a variety of tools and techniques to help our clients achieve positive results.

If you or someone you know could benefit from our services, please visit our website for more information.

Don’t hesitate to contact us at 0359671438 or schedule an appointment online at www.strongmindspsychology.com.au/find-us/

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17/10/2025

In celebration of Allied Health Professions Day, we want to extend a heartfelt thank you to our incredible team of allied health professionals at Strong Minds clinics. This year's theme, ‘Stronger Together’, highlights the unwavering dedication and compassion that allied health practitioners provide to their patients. Their contributions are vital in fostering a robust, high-quality healthcare system for our community.

If you or someone you know could benefit from our services, we invite you to visit our website for more information.

Don't hesitate to contact us at 0359671438 or book online at www.strongmindspsychology.com.au/find-us/

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16/10/2025

What does your Tree of Life Look Like?

The Tree of Life is a hopeful and inspiring approach to working with children, young people and adults who have experienced hard times.

This approach enables people to speak about their lives in ways that make them stronger. It involves people drawing their own ‘tree of life’ in which they get to speak of their ‘roots’ (where they come from), their skills and knowledge, their hopes and dreams, as well as the special people in their lives.

The participants then join their trees into a ‘forest of life’ and, in groups, discuss some of the ‘storms’ that affect their lives and ways that they respond to these storms, protect themselves, and each other.

The Tree of Life enables people to speak about their lives in ways that are not retraumatising, but instead strengthen their relationships with their own history, their culture, and significant people in their lives.

At Strong Minds Psychology, we employ various tools and techniques to help our clients achieve positive outcomes.

If you or someone you know could benefit from our services, please visit our website for more information.

Feel free to contact us at 0359671438 or book an appointment online at www.strongmindspsychology.com.au/find-us/

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14/10/2025

Back into the swing of things now that school holidays are over, we have availability for both new and existing clients at both Yarra Junction and Warragul.

Simply head to our website, choose your location and book there.

Our team can assist if you or someone you know needs our services.

Contact us on 0359671438 or email smpteam@strongminds.net.au

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25/09/2025

A quick reminder that we'll be closed for AFL Friday's public holiday.

If you are in crisis or needing emergency support, please contact one of the following services:
Emergency Services 000
Lifeline 13 11 14
Su***de Call Back Service 1300 659 467
Kids Helpline 1800 55 1800
1800 RESPECT - 1800 737 732

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19/09/2025

🌏 World Clean Up Day September 20th. ♻️

So many ways you can help contribute:
♻️ Join an event
♻️ Follow and share posts by the World Clean Up Day crew
♻️ Use bins correctly at home and in the community
♻️ Take your rubbish with you when you leave a natural environment
♻️ Pick up some rubbish and pop it in the right bin
♻️ Encourage your friends and family to pick up some rubbish too

Find out more at www.worldcleanupday.org
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