Positive Young Minds
Children, Adolescents and Adults who are seeking
Connection, Confidence and Calm
Connection, Confidence and Calm
TO BOOK CALL 0408533515 or CLICK DIRECT LINK BELOW
ABOUT POSITIVE YOUNG MINDS
Positive Young Minds is a boutique mental health business that helps children, adolescents and adults understand and manage their mental health. Through this business I promote three main areas of mental health:
1. Connection. Understanding and honouring thoughts, feelings and needs. Creating deeper relationships with other people and the world. With increased connection comes a reduced sense of loneliness and isolation.. .
2. Calm. Teaching practical techniques, including mindfulness, to create pops of calm, to learn to respond rather than react to situations and to reduce the impact of chronic or acute stress.
3. Confidence. Learning strategies to manage any fear or anxiety, and do the things that are meaningful..
1. Connection. Understanding and honouring thoughts, feelings and needs. Creating deeper relationships with other people and the world. With increased connection comes a reduced sense of loneliness and isolation.. .
2. Calm. Teaching practical techniques, including mindfulness, to create pops of calm, to learn to respond rather than react to situations and to reduce the impact of chronic or acute stress.
3. Confidence. Learning strategies to manage any fear or anxiety, and do the things that are meaningful..
WE CAN HELP YOU WITH
- Acute or Chronic Stress
- Anger Issues
- Anxiety
- School and learning difficulties
- Sleep difficulties
- Coping with COVID19 stress
- Coping with transitioning to a new normal
- Coping with COVDI19 grief
WE HELP
Children and Adolescents
Mums
Mental Health Professionals
WHAT WE DO
We use a range of strategies including mindfulness, ACT, Emotional Management - through increasing awareness of feelings, thoughts and behaviours, Positive Action to help create a happier more meaningful life; and, Essential Self-Care strategies to enhance wellbeing. We work with you and your goals and tailor an approach that is right for you.
Currently we conduct all sessions online. This means that no matter where you live you are able to access support.
Currently we conduct all sessions online. This means that no matter where you live you are able to access support.
MY STORY
I am an independent, private psychologist.
But I am, most importantly, a mother with three beautiful children who challenge me everyday to be better.
In my downtime I love to read fiction and watch Collingwood (AFL). I also walk, spend too much time on social media, and love catching up with my friends and family. And (shh, don't tell anyone) currently I'm binge watching Vampire Diaries to help me manage my COVID19 stress
I came to psychology spasmodically and rather late in life, after a few twists and turns along the way. I kept coming back to the call though to help people improve their mental health - particularly from a preventative and flourishing perspective.
Lately the epidemic of loneliness in our society has caused me to focus more on helping people create connection.
Loneliness is implicated in the prevalence of depression and is confounded by our reliance on technology.
It is seen in the faces of children who are bullied, mothers raising children without community support, older people with no family, and professionals suffering burnout.
I was that young child in the playground bullied and struggling to find a voice and trust myself, the mother isolated at home with a child who wouldn’t sleep and screamed non-stop, the professional without a mentor and without a focus.
.Having grown up in an era where mental health was generally ignored, I have worked hard to develop strategies to grow my confidence, reconnect with my authentic self and experience pops of calm and happiness. And I know I can help you and your children do that too.
As a professional, the bullying, doubts and stressors do not disappear. Through using self-care strategies based on connecting and reconnecting with myself and what I need I continue to care for my mental health in a career which is prone to early burn out.
Self-care, taking care of your wellbeing, is a life long journey, and no matter where you are it is never too early and never too late to start.
Whatever is going on in your life, know that you are not alone.
Kim Dunn, Psychologist
B.A. Grad.Dip. Ed. Psych., M.Psych (Ed & Dev), APS
But I am, most importantly, a mother with three beautiful children who challenge me everyday to be better.
In my downtime I love to read fiction and watch Collingwood (AFL). I also walk, spend too much time on social media, and love catching up with my friends and family. And (shh, don't tell anyone) currently I'm binge watching Vampire Diaries to help me manage my COVID19 stress
I came to psychology spasmodically and rather late in life, after a few twists and turns along the way. I kept coming back to the call though to help people improve their mental health - particularly from a preventative and flourishing perspective.
Lately the epidemic of loneliness in our society has caused me to focus more on helping people create connection.
Loneliness is implicated in the prevalence of depression and is confounded by our reliance on technology.
It is seen in the faces of children who are bullied, mothers raising children without community support, older people with no family, and professionals suffering burnout.
I was that young child in the playground bullied and struggling to find a voice and trust myself, the mother isolated at home with a child who wouldn’t sleep and screamed non-stop, the professional without a mentor and without a focus.
.Having grown up in an era where mental health was generally ignored, I have worked hard to develop strategies to grow my confidence, reconnect with my authentic self and experience pops of calm and happiness. And I know I can help you and your children do that too.
As a professional, the bullying, doubts and stressors do not disappear. Through using self-care strategies based on connecting and reconnecting with myself and what I need I continue to care for my mental health in a career which is prone to early burn out.
Self-care, taking care of your wellbeing, is a life long journey, and no matter where you are it is never too early and never too late to start.
Whatever is going on in your life, know that you are not alone.
Kim Dunn, Psychologist
B.A. Grad.Dip. Ed. Psych., M.Psych (Ed & Dev), APS
HOW DO YOU BOOK?
You can speak to me, Kim Dunn, for all counselling and coaching requirements. Simply click the link at the top of the page to make an online booking, call 0408533515, or email kimdunn@positiveyoungminds.com.au. .
