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Hi, I'm Kim and the solo practitioner that is Positive Young Minds.
I believe that when you experience an awareness and understanding of your true self through accepting your thoughts, feelings and experiences as they are, right now, you enter into a connection with yourself. You can then step into this inner knowing and calm dynamic you have created and experience true connection. Your base of inner knowing is the first point of connection and ripples out to three levels to create and strengthen your relationship with those around you, the natural world and our shared unconscious.
Through this process of awareness, acceptance and inner knowing we start to reduce isolation and can create a better future for ourselves, our family and our planet.
As a microbusiness owner and solo practitioner I provide services that are tailored to your child's needs and unique difficulties and have connection and care at their heart.
I am happiest walking, hanging out with my kids and working hard with an inspired creative burst.
Each day is a new adventure as I'm never quite sure how I'm going to feel, what will inspire me or what challenges are going to crop up. I search for the awesome in the everyday and cultivate connections to the things that are meaningful and spark my heart. This combination means I am multi-passionate and the twists and turns of my journey with both lived experience and professional training has led me to help
children, parents and other therapists, particularly early in career and/or solo practitioners.
The formal bit
I am an independent, private psychologist. I graduated with a Masters of Educational and Developmental Psychology from Monash University, Victoria, in 2007 and have been a psychologist for over 16 years.
I have always been a member of a psychologists professional organisation, currently the Australian Association of Psychologists Inc (AAPi). I was involved for a number of years in running and attending local Mental Health Professional Networking groups, and founded and ran the Victorian Psychologists' Networking Group for four years from May 2018. I'm currently connected locally as a general committee member of the Narre Warren and Berwick Business Group.
I embraced private practice as a solo psychologist about five or six years ago as a key part of creating a sustainable career.
What I do for self-care
The cornerstone of my mental health is around practical mindfulness. I regularly check in with my thoughts and feelings and use this to guide what I most need.
I engage in a daily mindful walk around my neighbourhood where I actively seek out the beauty in the ordinary. I find meaning in my work and motherhood and connection through keeping in touch with my friends and family, being involved in peer networking, and contributing to my community through a range of volunteer activities. The latest has involved helping raise two guide dog puppies.
I love to teach others positive, practical mental health skills. When these are learned, they can create a solid foundation to develop trust in yourself, experience happiness and joy, have strong, connected relationships with others, and discover and use your talents and gifts to produce life satisfaction and benefits for the wider community.
I believe that all healing and growth at a personal and universal level begins with self care. At the heart of this is unconditional love and acceptance of self.
Why my business is based on connection
I've been the child moving from school to school, being picked last at sport and using novels in place of friendships. Loneliness is painful. I've been the mother isolated at home with a child who wouldn’t sleep and screamed non-stop, the parent advocating for their child at school and the mum sitting on all the committees and putting her children above everything. It's a short cut to parental burnout. I've worked in organisations where t I've loved walking into work and catching up with my coworkers, and those workplaces where knowledge is hoarded, secrets kept and bullying rampant.
The world is undergoing a loneliness epidemic. No-one is immune, children, young people, parents, older people. Creating Connection is vital for mental health and world healing.
Kim Ross, Psychologist
B.A. Grad.Dip. Ed. Psych., M.Psych (Ed & Dev), AAPi
I believe that when you experience an awareness and understanding of your true self through accepting your thoughts, feelings and experiences as they are, right now, you enter into a connection with yourself. You can then step into this inner knowing and calm dynamic you have created and experience true connection. Your base of inner knowing is the first point of connection and ripples out to three levels to create and strengthen your relationship with those around you, the natural world and our shared unconscious.
Through this process of awareness, acceptance and inner knowing we start to reduce isolation and can create a better future for ourselves, our family and our planet.
As a microbusiness owner and solo practitioner I provide services that are tailored to your child's needs and unique difficulties and have connection and care at their heart.
I am happiest walking, hanging out with my kids and working hard with an inspired creative burst.
Each day is a new adventure as I'm never quite sure how I'm going to feel, what will inspire me or what challenges are going to crop up. I search for the awesome in the everyday and cultivate connections to the things that are meaningful and spark my heart. This combination means I am multi-passionate and the twists and turns of my journey with both lived experience and professional training has led me to help
children, parents and other therapists, particularly early in career and/or solo practitioners.
The formal bit
I am an independent, private psychologist. I graduated with a Masters of Educational and Developmental Psychology from Monash University, Victoria, in 2007 and have been a psychologist for over 16 years.
I have always been a member of a psychologists professional organisation, currently the Australian Association of Psychologists Inc (AAPi). I was involved for a number of years in running and attending local Mental Health Professional Networking groups, and founded and ran the Victorian Psychologists' Networking Group for four years from May 2018. I'm currently connected locally as a general committee member of the Narre Warren and Berwick Business Group.
I embraced private practice as a solo psychologist about five or six years ago as a key part of creating a sustainable career.
What I do for self-care
The cornerstone of my mental health is around practical mindfulness. I regularly check in with my thoughts and feelings and use this to guide what I most need.
I engage in a daily mindful walk around my neighbourhood where I actively seek out the beauty in the ordinary. I find meaning in my work and motherhood and connection through keeping in touch with my friends and family, being involved in peer networking, and contributing to my community through a range of volunteer activities. The latest has involved helping raise two guide dog puppies.
I love to teach others positive, practical mental health skills. When these are learned, they can create a solid foundation to develop trust in yourself, experience happiness and joy, have strong, connected relationships with others, and discover and use your talents and gifts to produce life satisfaction and benefits for the wider community.
I believe that all healing and growth at a personal and universal level begins with self care. At the heart of this is unconditional love and acceptance of self.
Why my business is based on connection
I've been the child moving from school to school, being picked last at sport and using novels in place of friendships. Loneliness is painful. I've been the mother isolated at home with a child who wouldn’t sleep and screamed non-stop, the parent advocating for their child at school and the mum sitting on all the committees and putting her children above everything. It's a short cut to parental burnout. I've worked in organisations where t I've loved walking into work and catching up with my coworkers, and those workplaces where knowledge is hoarded, secrets kept and bullying rampant.
The world is undergoing a loneliness epidemic. No-one is immune, children, young people, parents, older people. Creating Connection is vital for mental health and world healing.
Kim Ross, Psychologist
B.A. Grad.Dip. Ed. Psych., M.Psych (Ed & Dev), AAPi
