Natalie Fisher Counselling in Wamberal, New South Wales | Medical and health

Natalie Fisher Counselling

Locality: Wamberal, New South Wales

Phone: +61 403 238 333

Address: 17 Lumeah Ave 2260 Wamberal, NSW, Australia

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25.01.2022 O P E N F O R B U S I N E S S Pleased to announce that we are open and ready to take bookings. Contact Phoebe on 0402246622 or via email [email protected]. Head to our website to check out all that we offer - link in bio. Can't wait to meet you and help you reach your goals!!

25.01.2022 Some Friday "Christmas Holidays are nearly here" giggles.

24.01.2022 Same same for full size humans.

24.01.2022 In session we often explore the purpose of secondary emotions. Many people are intrigued to discover that anger is often sadness's bodyguard - we unknowingly use our anger as a way of protecting ourselves from feeling the great depths of grief or loss or sadness.

23.01.2022 "Do one thing every day that scares you". ( because that is way to grow/ learn some awesome stuff about yourself ) Halloween seems a very appropriate day to start!

22.01.2022 I'm not going to tell you it's going to be okay - it might not be. Or that it's all going to be alright - because maybe it will never again be alright in the wa...y you have known alright until this moment. But right now, in this breath, you can draw in the exhale of the leaves around you and feel the warmth of your both capable and helpless hands spread to your chest as your heart marches into this moment one beat at a time. For some of us, especially trauma survivors, the embodiment that comes with many mindfulness practices can be overwhelming. For those of us grieving, positive affirmations can feel like pebbles that reverberate in the empty cavern of loss. If long or open-ended mindfulness practices feel overwhelming or frightening because they leave space for anything (and everything!) To come up, focus instead on finding and feeling a single sensation for a single moment: the weight of your shoes on the floor, the warmth that moves from your hand as you place it on your chest, or the yawn of a muscle allowed for one moment to relax As we leave 2020 behind for a new year, find time to ground, to breathe, and to notice. #overwhelm #innerstrength #traumasensitiveyoga #lifeafterloss #newyear #grounding #breathe #connection #meditation #mindfulness

22.01.2022 After months of telehealth call and video therapy sessions it has been so awesome to return to face to face counselling in the last couple of months. Lots of handwashing, disinfecting and cleaning all the resources and of course 1.5 metres between chairs! So grateful we have the option to offer therapy in ways that keep everyone feeling confident and safe.

21.01.2022 100%...and why we often focus in sessions on the narrative we have learnt to speak to ourselves. Often the story we have of ourselves is the story that so strongly influences our core beliefs.

20.01.2022 My plan for next week as the chaos of Christmas gets closer- find and embrace my inner 6 year old!

19.01.2022 Not all triggers are what you'd think of as difficult topics, not all difficult topics are triggers. Triggers are intensely personal to each individual, and can... range from people/places/things to relationship dynamics, and just about anything else. Learning to recognize triggers as we work through trauma is not so we can carefully and precisely avoid them. Instead, naming triggers as we work through trauma is all about growing awareness of how we are impacted, developing self regulation skills, and creating a game plan so that we can find ways to return to ourselves after a trauma trigger. With time and practice, triggers can shrink from giant trapdoors in our path down to little puddles we know how to splash through. #mentalhealthfirstaid #triggered #selfcare #traumasurvivor #ptsd

19.01.2022 Life. Being grateful for all the things.

14.01.2022 Coping statements assist us to ground ourselves when we begin to feel overwhelmed. My favourite from these ideas is "I am capable of doing hard things" because it allows us to slowly reclaim or build a confidence in ourselves.

13.01.2022 Weekends are often a time to chat to friends and family...what a great visual to remind ourselves of the signs that a person you love ( or maybe even yourself) might be struggling.

12.01.2022 For those moments when our inner critic is so loud and really bossing us around...

12.01.2022 Nothing wrong with making a run for it!

12.01.2022 PTSD often describes a single event that we associate with accidents, traumatic medical procedures, accidents, and violence. In recent years there has been incr...easing recognition of the psychological impact of prolonged, recurrent, and often interpersonal trauma, such as psychological or physical abuse in childhood. This type of trauma has been termed Complex PTSD (C-PTSD) or, when in childhood, developmental trauma. The evidence suggests that most complex trauma originates in childhood. The prolonged trauma experienced may have fundamentally altered the individual’s personality. Therefore, C-PTSD combines elements of PTSD and personality disorders. PTSD, as a diagnosis, does not incorporate complex issues arising due to the effects of the trauma on development. Moreover, many forms of interpersonal trauma do not meet the definition of a traumatic incident as they do not involve actual or threatened death or serious injury, or a threat to the physical integrity of self or others (DSM-V, p.271). C-PTSD has only recently been added into the ICD-11 (2018) but was omitted as a discrete diagnosis in the DSM-5 due to its similarity in presentation to both PTSD and Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD). One big threatening and distressful event (1 cup at once) can distress you just as much as less distressful and non-life-threatening events (many T-spoons that make 1 cup). In the end, the cup got full by either one single life-threatening event or reoccurring distressful non-life threatening events. Your reactions make sense. #trauma #anger #emotions #bodyawareness #mentalhealth #psychology #traumahealing #tramatized #traumaresponse #traumarecovery #polyvagaltheory #polyvagal #survival #traumasurvivor #defensemechanism #bodyreaction #ptsd #ptsdawareness #cptsd #domesticviolence #abuse #counselorsofinstagram #counselorsfollowcounselors #psychoeducation #bodyandmind #mindulness #breathe #yoga #bpd #compassion See more

11.01.2022 Often in session we are working on our self belief so that we can begin the hard work of using our voice, holding our boundaries and getting comfortable with others feeling uncomfortable because we aren't just doing whatever it takes to keep the peace. Therapy is often doing hard stuff that helps us move forward!

11.01.2022 Yep - " Your business is to stay loyal to you". Anyone else enjoying the wisdom of author Glennon Doyle in Untamed?

10.01.2022 Oh gosh...I was looking so good until we got to the Christmas tree lights!

10.01.2022 To celebrate Mental Health Day/month/awareness!

09.01.2022 Thank you to all those awesome humans who understand the true support offered by just "being there" when a friend needs it most.

06.01.2022 The holidays are a wonderland of everything that can lead to hyped up, exhausted, cranky, excited, happy kids (and adults). Sometimes they’ll cycle through all ...of these within ten minutes. Sugar will constantly pry their little mouths wide open and jump inside, routines will laugh at you from a distance, there will be gatherings and parties, and everything will feel a little bit different to usual. And a bit like magic. Know that whatever happens, it’s all part of what the holidays are meant to look like. They aren’t meant to be pristine and orderly and exactly as planned. They were never meant to be that. Christmas is about people, your favourite ones, not tasks. If focusing on the people means some of the tasks fall down, let that be okay, because that’s what Christmas is. It’s about you and your people. It’s not about proving your parenting stamina, or that you’ve raised perfectly well-behaved humans, or that your family can polish up like the catalog ones any day of the week, or that you can create restaurant quality meals and decorate the table like you were born doing it. Christmas is messy and ridiculous and exhausting and there will be plenty of frayed edges. And plenty of magic. The magic will happen the way it always happens. Not with the decorations or the trimmings or the food or the polish, but by being with the ones you love, and the ones who love you right back. When it all starts to feel too important, too necessary and too ‘un-let-go-able’, be guided by the bigger truth, which is that more than anything, you will all remember how you all felt as in how happy they felt, how loved they felt were, how noticed they felt. They won’t care about the instagram-worthy meals on the table, the cleanliness of the floors, how many relatives they visited, or how impressed other grown-ups were with their clean faces and darling smiles. It’s easy to forget sometimes, that what matters most at Christmas isn’t the tasks, but the people the ones who would give up pretty much anything just to have the day with you.

05.01.2022 Making space for, accepting or acknowledging and letting things go.

05.01.2022 Some way more helpful questions to ask ourselves as we begin a new year.

04.01.2022 Gaslighting is a form of abuse and manipulation concentrated on making someone doubt their reality.

04.01.2022 Such an awesome session this morning with Miss 7 talking about how all our feelings have a job to do. Yet we discovered that we all have habits of "pushing away" or "getting rid of" hard feelings ( hence our Bin). Miss 7 worked out all the ways we can manage hard feelings instead of trying to get rid of them - I definitely got some great ideas too!

03.01.2022 Such a challenging truth to process. But totally a gift to be here.

01.01.2022 If they aren't your monkeys it sure isn't your circus!