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Be. Counselling

Locality: Adelaide, South Australia

Phone: +61 417 340 663

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25.01.2022 Informing that Be. Counselling cannot begin any new referrals until May 2021. If you would like to wait as there is a chance of participants leaving service when they are ready you are welcome to make contact to discuss.

24.01.2022 Fight this Friday. Be on your own side if you need some back up give me a call

24.01.2022 Find out more about this group! https://www.facebook.com/OurVoiceSA/

24.01.2022 Looking for quality IT service with understanding around disability and clearances for in home service? https://www.southernvalespcs.com.au/

23.01.2022 Be in this, still needs more of us to shift this where it needs to go

23.01.2022 Sometimes the timing is right to ask people that choose my service to leave it with me and give themselves some respite from certain thoughts and feelings for a few days. A circuit breaker. If you are struggling and don't have a therapist, you can try writing down or recording the BIG thought or feeling, the intrusive one, guilt, grief, anger, fear or pain and leave it at home for the day in a drawer or safely recorded in you phone to be left alone, while you go out and do your thing without it. A bit of a break can take the edge off, allow you to shift or live with it a little easier. Noone said you have to carry it with you always. For more strategies get in contact

23.01.2022 Great news for Yawp Collective, the community exchange is in use and those who visit Be. counselling will be able to enjoy the project too! Has been a privilege to see what is happening at Yawp. Unconditional positive regard, facilitation rather than task demand, strengths based, flexible with structure when needed, partipants as experts - people sharing skills already, not even 2 weeks in! Would not have expected any different though! Only places left in gaming group Thursd...ay afternoon. New groups starting soon to meet what people have requested. Love sharing this space

21.01.2022 We all have strengths and we all have gaps

21.01.2022 Anyone taken this this heavy load off this year? Goal for 2021?

20.01.2022 Yesterday's celebration of life with a wonderful young person who has just turned 17! I am grateful to have been a consistent part of this person's world for 2 years now in a professional capacity. We need to remember when we work with people what they mean to us and what we mean to them. Working relationships can be fun, connected and include natural celebrations whilst being SAFE and with boundaries. It is called HUMAN.

19.01.2022 find it with some help.

18.01.2022 Friday afternoon therapy spot. No filters. Likely to return Definately. Going. Back. Suggested by the person half way through their first session. People know what works for them Flexibility is the key, could've said "next time" and that could've changed everything. How about "yeah let's go!"

17.01.2022 Koalas know about the Be. State, this one is enjoying life today

17.01.2022 We made it through and we have opened that door together. Let's do 2021 human team with understanding and compassion for each other

16.01.2022 Love this. Have tried to find another word for "successful" as people tend to connect this with power, money, achievement etc, but the way I see success is about having meaning...a satisfied life

15.01.2022 Please offer some support and include people, we are in the thick of it and many people are reflecting extremely deeply about life right now

13.01.2022 No filters for Mental Health Week. A change in perspective. A walk in a new place. Sharing time with a person who chooses Be. Counselling and her therapy dog on this fine day. Sorrow, confusion, frustration, joy, excitement, togetherness, belonging and clarity. Dreaming of a day when these conversations happen outside of therapy as the typical and continuing to ACT

13.01.2022 Terms Therapists Should Know Neurodiversity Individual differences in brain functioning regarded as normal variations within the human population. The concept t...hat differences in brain functioning within the human population are normal and that brain functioning that is not neurotypical should not be stigmatized. Merrium -Webster Dictionary Neurodivergent/Neurodivergence Differences in mental or neurological function from what is considered typical. (Examples include Autistic, ADHD, Dyslexia, Dyspraxia, Acquired neurodivergence, such as TBI) The terms neurodivergent and neurodivergence were coined by Kassiane Asasumasu, a multiply neurodivergent neurodiversity activist. Definition provided by Oxford Dictionary. Double Empathy Problem Theory: When people with very different experiences of the world interact, they will struggle to empathize with each other. Breakdowns in reciprocity and mutual understanding between non-autistics and Autistic people may be due to differences in the ways they experience the world. Damian E.M. Milton (2012) On the ontological status of autism: the ‘double empathy problem’, Disability & Society, 27:6, 883-887, DOI: 10.1080/09687599.2012.710008; Morrison KE, DeBrabander KM, Jones DR, Faso DJ, Ackerman RA, Sasson NJ. Outcomes of real-world social interaction for autistic adults paired with autistic compared to typically developing partners. Autism. 2020;24(5):1067-1080. doi:10.1177/1362361319892701 Diversity in Social Intelligence "... re-conceptualisation of intelligence within a neurodiversity framework, challenging the notion that there is only one legitimate form of human intelligence. ... a hypothesis that autistic social skills may be enhanced in an autism-specific cultural context." The University of Edinburgh: http://dart.ed.ac.uk/research/nd-iq/ Ableism "Ableism is a set of beliefs or practices that devalue and discriminate against people with physical, intellectual, or psychiatric disabilities and often rests on the assumption that disabled people need to be ‘fixed’ in one form or the other." Center for Disability Rights: http://cdrnys.org/blog/uncategorized/ableism/ Masking is about adding layers to Autistic persona and physicality that hides the real person underneath. Examples include: suppressing stimming, eye contact, forcing artificial social interactions, hiding and/or suppressing periods of high anxiety, forcing physical contact in expected ways. Social skills training teaches masking. Masking causes trauma, anxiety, depression and even suicidal ideation. Kieran Rose - The Autistic Advocate: https://theautisticadvocate.com/ For a free pdf copy of this infographic or any of our others, go to this link and click on "Educational Infographics." https://therapistndc.org/education/

12.01.2022 How you feel is very important

12.01.2022 OPPORTUNITY TO PARTICIPATE IN RESEARCH: The Connecting to Wellbeing PhD research project will bring together the views of three populations; People with Comple...x Communication Needs, Everyday Communication Partners, and Mental Health Workers with the aim of improving communication access in mental health support. You are invited to participate in a survey to help the researchers find out about what helps, and what doesn't help, when people with complex communication needs seek help for emotional distress, or mental health concerns. If you want to participate or learn more about the project you can use these links to the Connecting to Wellbeing survey information sheet. People with Complex Communication Needs: https://qualtrics.flinders.edu.au/j/form/SV_5ceA5kq0AS4oqEt Everyday Communication Partners: Friends, family members and paid supporters of people with complex communication needs https://qualtrics.flinders.edu.au/j/form/SV_55yTvJCYoi7i69f Mental Health Workers: https://qualtrics.flinders.edu.au/j/form/SV_6ijOongKNGVtGnj We recognise that people with complex communication needs may face barriers in accessing mental health services. You can still do the survey if you have not used mental health services. We also understand that because of access barriers Mental Health Workers may not have experience working with people with complex communication needs. That is okay - Mental Health Workers can still do the survey even if they have not worked with people with complex communication needs.

12.01.2022 Be regardful (yes it is a word) as a beginner, be regardful as an expert (and anything in between) We learn from and with one another!

12.01.2022 Still here. Call or video. Please stay safe and get in contact, we can work it out

11.01.2022 Where you have control over what you choose to say and do to a large extent. Where you can own responsibility. Where you can sense contentment, freedom, gratefulness and love in your own space. We can learn our identity and strength and create security even when things have not always been like this. We can trust OURSELVES even when others in our world are not providing stability. Working on our internal world is vital and working on our external world is also important and valid. Please note that we need to seek help if we are unsafe in our internal or external world, the previous was in relation to self growth

10.01.2022 I've officially lodged the petition with Council. A massive thanks to the wonderful South West Community who overwhelmingly supported our efforts.

08.01.2022 Check out Hazzah for style https://www.facebook.com/wazuphazzah/

07.01.2022 *can. People CAN heal. People CAN connect and reconnect. People can repattern

06.01.2022 Today's office thanks to this great place

06.01.2022 Wonderful people who choose Be. Counselling choose this. I honour how brave you are. Truly inspiring. True strength

06.01.2022 #internationalwomensday2021 I see these women around me and also at a distance, that keep lifting each other relentlessly

05.01.2022 Talking budgets and dreams in the right setting.

04.01.2022 "Most professional report I have ever seen" Christine"Most professional report I have ever seen" Christine

02.01.2022 Monday workplace The mumma was a great protector, photo taken from a distance.

01.01.2022 From today, the South Australian Adult Safeguarding Unit will receive reports of abuse, neglect and exploitation of people with disabilities. This day was not m...eant to arrive until 2022!! To all our comrades who lobbied alongside us for this change, and the people with disabilities and families who need this, this is a big day! You can read more about the Adult Safeguarding Unit here: https://www.sahealth.sa.gov.au//ad/adult+safeguarding+unit Totally coincidentally, our window signage got done today! Next time you’re wandering down Currie St in the city, this will be all in your face Thanks to the legends at Blend Creative for making it happen! #EQL #disabilitycommunity #disabilityrights #milestone (Image description: window with large, white text Defending Disability Rights Happens Here.)