An article on using exercise and movement as a therapeutic intervention for brain health or psychological concerns.

An article on four natural aides to help with stress and anxiety.

An article on the therapeutic use of zinc in mental health.

This is a six-part reconnection series we contributed for NZ Mental Health Awareness week 2022.

An article about the effects of problematic news consumption and doom-scrolling on human health and how to do less of it.

A simple but effective tool open to most people to help protect against mental health challenges, especially in winter, is the assessment and optimisation of their vitamin D levels..

If you're a human in 2022, then stress, anxiety, panic and worry are likely to have featured to some extent in your life over the past two years. These are natural responses to stressors that we all experience from time to time, but when these escalate and get in the way of life, they are one of the most common reasons people seek the help of a professional therapist..

As a Clinical Psychologist working through the global pandemic the widespread trend has been anxiety, uncertainty and fear.

I’ve been trying to make psychological sense of the different ways in which we have all been reacting and responding to the pandemic; I’ve found the BIS one extremely helpful concept to zoom out and reflect on what has been happening. If you’d also like some insight into our behaviour during the time of Covid-19 then read on.

When did you last experience a moment of joy? Have you lost your previous sources of joy or forgotten how to feel it at all? This is an article about how to self-experiment with re-finding joy these holidays.

A sometimes overlooked cause of psychological or neurological concerns such as anxiety, depression, “brain fog”, or chronic exhaustion lies in the immune activation caused by gluten in affected people - AKA the autoimmune condition coeliac disease (CD)

While there are many suggestions to choose from, here are 8 of my top recommendations to move your body and mind into relaxation mode. These each help to restore your health and wellbeing after an endurance stage of stress.