Blue Mountains Counselling Centre in Katoomba, New South Wales | Mental health service

Blue Mountains Counselling Centre

Locality: Katoomba, New South Wales

Address: Level 1, Suite 2, 98-108 Bathurst Road, 2780 Katoomba, NSW, Australia

Website: http://www.bmcounselling.com.au/

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18.01.2022 Our Therapists work with these very real issues: Picture a 1950’s housewife living before modern feminism. She goes to her doctor to say there is something wrong with her. She says something like: I have everything I could possibly want. I have a good husband who provides for me. I have a nice house with a picket fence. I have two healthy children. I have a car. I have nothing to be unhappy about. But look at me-I feel terrible. I must be broken inside. Please can I have so...me Valium? The feminist classics talk a lot about this. There were millions of women saying things just like that. And the women meant what they said. They were sincere. Yet now, if we could go back in a time machine and talk to these women, what we’d say is: You had everything a woman could possibly want by the standards of the culture. But we now know that the standards of the culture were wrong. Women need more than a house and a car and a husband and kids. They need equality, and meaningful work, and autonomy. You aren’t broken, we’d tell them. The culture is." Quote taken from the book: "Lost Connections, why you're depressed and how to find hope." By Johann Hari. Published 2018

14.01.2022 The Blue Mountains Counselling Centre has been part of this community for a long time. We are aware of how many people are affected by the bush-fire situation. ... Our therapists are experienced in working with families and individuals who are going through emotional upheavals such as panic, fear and anxiety during this unprecedented and unpredictable bush fire season. Quite often children get very fearful in situations like this. For a family to be well resourced can make a real difference. We want to extend our good will to the Blue Mountains community and offer counselling sessions during the summer holidays for individuals, families and their children affected by these fires. Email consultations are also available.

12.01.2022 We are moving all our Counselling & Psychotherapy sessions online (Skype/FaceTime/Zoom) due to the corona virus pandemic. It is predicted for the curve of infec...tions to go up and reach a critical point before the numbers decline. The Australian Government are implementing more shut downs as the curve reaches a critical peak (at this point this is predicted during April) and then moves down. It is likely that restrictions will stay in place till end of May/beginning of June. While people are self isolating and spending more time at home during this time, it will bring with it challenges in different ways for people. * Couples may experience increasing tensions and argue more * Families at home with children may find that as children get "cabin fever", there are increasing struggles and arguments. * Families may not know how to discuss with their children the current situation and how to manage their child’s fears * Family units may have family members who are infected with corona virus * People are feeling the stress and anxiety of their work declining. *People may be facing financial difficulties * People are trying to get benefits through Centrelink and are struggling with the number of people accessing government services and subsequent breakdown of systems * People may be concerned how they will cope with being isolated at home * Professionals working on the frontline such as doctors, nurses and medical staff will be feeling the strain from their work and concerns for their own health A few therapy sessions where you can talk over your stresses, worries and struggles with better understanding and to stay sane during this time can make a realistic difference. BMCC are offering discounted Online Counselling sessions for people impacted by Corona Virus. - 15 minute online Counselling sessions $ 30 - 1/2 hour Counselling sessions $ 60 - 45 min $ 90 - 1 hour Counselling sessions $ 120 Enquiries & bookings: bmcounselling.com.au

07.01.2022 Johann Hari quote is in line with our work with clients: Depression and anxiety might, in one way, be the sanest reaction you have. It’s a signal saying- you shouldn’t have to live this way, and if you aren’t helped to find a better path, you will be missing out on so much that is best about being human. That afternoon, I found myself thinking again about so many of the people I got to know on this journey-and one in particular. Joanna Cacciatorre lost her baby daughter, an...d she felt the deep sorrow that is natural and right when you have felt deep love and it has been taken from you. Yet she watched as grieving people were told- officially, by psychiatrists- that if their profound distress persisted after a short window, they were mentally ill and needed to be drugged. Joanne told me that grief is necessary. We grieve because we have loved. We grieve because the person we have lost mattered to us. To say that grief should disappear on a neat timeline is an insult to the love we have felt. Deep grief and depression, she explained to me, have identical symptoms for a reason. Depression, I realised, is itself a form of grief- for all the connections we need, but don’t have. And now I realised- just like it is an insult to Joanne to say that her ongoing grief for her daughter is a form of mental dysfunction, it was an insult to my teenage self to say that his pain was just the result of bad brain chemistry. It was an insult to what he had been through, and to what he needed. All over the world today, people’s pain is being insulted. We need to start throwing that insult back in their faces- and demanding they engage with the real problems that need to be solved. Johann Hari, author of the book: Lost Connections. Why you’re depressed and how to find hope. Published 2018