Listed below are links, diagrams and other information related to models and frameworks commonly discussed during therapy (alphabetical order)

  • Anger volcano DONE
  • Anxiety and avoidance DONE
  • Anxiety and performance DONE
  • Assertiveness DONE
    • (Gabor Mate – when the body says no (causes of chronic illness – suppression of anger, inability to say no, pleasing others) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c6IL8WVyMMs  Gabor Mate – when the body says no (causes of chronic illness – suppression of anger, inability to say no, pleasing others) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c6IL8WVyMMs)
  • appropriate attribution of responsibility
  • clear goal
  • compassion
  • conscious deliberate awareness and action
  • fear of rejection linked to needing  tribe and risk of isolation
  • get over hump
  • have the right to say yes/no
  • honest conversation
  • information
  • Boundaries
    • make a bubble around yourself (use hands to form this). Notice how it feels.  Hold hands up in front of you to hold everything at bay. 
    • consider what action would be if this person was someone more distant – colleague, acquaintance, stranger, consider whether you feel good doing it, analyse consequences of actions
    • be able to tolerate uncomfortable feelings ref PVR/feeling feelings
    • consider what action would be if this person was someone more distant – colleague, acquaintance, stranger
    • consider whether you feel good doing it
    • analyse consequences of actions
    • be able to tolerate uncomfortable feelings (ref PVR/feeling feelings
  • CBT inc SOM (cartoons) DONE
  • EMDR
  • Emotion wheel
  • Gambling
  • Grounding and self soothing
  • Healthy adult self (role model, values,
  • Karpman’s triangle DONE
    • fear of rejection linked to needing  tribe and risk of isolation
    • conscious deliberate awareness and action
    • clear goal
    • compassion
    • honest conversation
    • know priorities
    • LT gain VS ST gain
    • preparation
    • information
    • appropriate attribution of responsibility
    • clear goal
    • not driven by obligation
    • look out for should
    • have the right to say yes/no
    • The Empowerment Dynamic
  • Managing fear
  • Mindfulness
  • Motivation
    • just start
    • get over hump
    • set up tools to allow activity
    • plan/set SMART goal
    • remind self of benefits of doing/costs of not doing
    • remind self of past experience not doing
    • tie to rewards 
    • tie to what you want to do
  • Neurobiology of anxiety DONE
  • Neuroplasticity
  • interlocked fingers
  • Positive:Negative 10:1 ratio 
  • Power DONE
  • Relationship circles
  • Repeated emotions over time DONE
  • SUDS (Measuring emotions) DONE
  • Schema Therapy
    • RN ALL IN THE MIND talk on trauma Jan- May 2014Maslow’s Hierarchy 
  • Sleep
  • Tolerate distressing emotions DONE
  • Transactional Analysis (parent/child relationships)DONE

Do you want more information about other conditions?  Sometimes we have to deal with situations or conditions that are directly psychological, peripherally related to psychology or are not psychological at all but impact on you psychologically.  Check these links for information about topics, issues and conditions that have been raised by clients who have been me over the last ten years. Both scientifically based and lived experience references are included. (SAME MATERIAL AS FOR NEW PSYCHOLOGISTS)

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    • ABI 
      • Left Neglect Lisa Genova book, 
      • Acquired Brain Injury conversation with Sarah Brooker who had a severe car accident while studying to become a neuroscientist 6 July 2018. 
      • Conversation with Lavinia Codd who studies neurogenesis (brain regeneration) after a stroke 7 February 2018
    • ABO 
      • Jill Bolty
    • ADHD
      • ADHD online assessment
    • Addiction
    • Adoption 
      • Trevor Jordan: adoption and the ethics of secrets Conversations with Richard Fidler 4 Apr 2016)
    • Affairs
      • 6 affair triggers
    • Ageing/end of life 
      • Atul Gawande
    • Alzheimers/dementia 
      • Christine Bryden is defying and re-defining dementia Conversations with Richard Fidler 11 Apr 2016, 
      • Still Alice book/movie
      • Still Alice Richard Fidler Conversation podcast The science behind Lisa Genova’s fiction Wed 17 August 2016 
    • Aneurysm
    • Anger
    • Anorexia nervosa??
    • Anxiety 
      • Feel the Fear, 
      • Elisa Black: anxiety and me Conversations with Richard Fidler 6 Jun 2016
      • Types anxiety
      • Neurobiology anxiety
      • Links to CCI
      • Heart attack vs panic attack
      • Generalised Anxiety Disorder refers to ongoing fear and worry about many things. If one fear resolves it is replaced by another. Often the person catastrophises about what might happen. Click here for an interview with Georgie Dent who is interviewed by Mia Freedman in No Filter about her extreme anxiety starting in early audlthood with the onset of endometriosis and Crohns whirled also work8ng at a law firm. She did not recognises the toll on her mental health until she began collapsing with vertigo and was admitted to the Currumbin Clinic for in patient care.
    • Aspergers/ASD 
      • Tony Attwood books 
      • Fidler conversation 2 October 2018
    • Aspergers/ASD female
      • Hannah Gadsby Nanette/Douglas
    • Assertiveness 
      • Corner office book
      • Coping with confrontation notes from Joan H 24 Feb 2015 + Jane L 26 June 2020
    • Attachment 
      • Poole Hellier attachment
      • Attachment assessment for adults and resources for therapists and parents about developing securely attached children https://dianepooleheller.com)
    • Bipolar Disorder 
      • discovery of lithium by John Cade in Australia as a treatment Fidler Oct 2016 + 3 September 2018
    • Blindness
    • Borderline Personality Disorder 
    • Boundaries 
      • Anna C 14 December
      • Corner office book
    • Crohns disease
      • Interview with Georgie Dent who is interviewed by Mia Freedman in No Filter about her extreme anxiety starting in early audlthood with the onset of endometriosis and Crohns whirled also work8ng at a law firm. She did not recognises the toll on her mental health until she began collapsing with vertigo and was admitted to the Currumbin Clinic for in patient care.
    • CSA 
      • Australian Dentist for trauma victims Sharon Zaks Fidler Conversations 13 June 2019 zaksdental.com.au for resources
    • Complex Post Traumatic Stress Disorder
    • Confidence
      • write list of things you are good at
      • create treasure box of recognition and acknowledgements 
      • accept compliments
    • Conflict theory 
      • War and alliances conversation with Gina Perry on the real psychological “robber’s cave” experiments conducted by Muzafer Sherif 1 June 2018
    • Cults 
      • Understanding cults (The Family) Fidler conversation October 2017, conversation with Tara Westover who grew up in a radical Mormon survivalist family 2 May 2018)
    • Custody
    • Deafness
    • Death and dying 
      • Leigh Sales death/grief book, 
      • Fidler conversation 1 October 2018, 
      • Death and dying conversation with Investigative journalist Sarah Ferguson on coping with the death of her mother. 
      • Conversation with Jenny Briscoe-Hough who enables access to affordable funerals 14 February 2018
      • Atul Gawande
    • Decision making 
      • Making decisions TED Ruth Chang Janet Chong
    • Depression 
    • Difficulty connecting with others 
      • Attachment quiz, Poole Heller
      • Aspergers
    • Dissociation 
      • Dissociation and coping with trauma DID ALL IN THE MIND
    • Divorce 
      • conversation with James Jeffrey 4 April 2018 re parents divorce
    • Domestic/Family Violence 
      • Why does he do that? 
      • I thought you loved me 
      • Behind Closed doors
      • DV Duluth power and control wheel
      • legal articles
      • non lethal strangulation
    • Drug addiction 
      • Luke Williams: to the edge of crystal meth addiction and back Conversations with Richard Fidler 10 May 2016
    • Emotional awareness 
    • Endometriosis
      • Interview with Georgie Dent who is interviewed by Mia Freedman in No Filter about her extreme anxiety starting in early audlthood with the onset of ndometriosis and Crohns whirled also workng at a law firm. She did not recognises the toll on her mental health until she began collapsing with vertigo and was admitted to the Currumbin Clinic for in patient care.
    • Euthanasia 
      • Euthanasia Andrew Denton asks, can Australia legislate for better death? Conversations with Richard Fidler 23 Feb 2016
    • Existential angst 
      • psychedelic microdosing, 
      • values
    • Fear
      • Tim Ferris fear setting model (link?)
        • What am I afraid of
        • What could go wrong
        • How could I prevent it going wrong if I did the thing I am afraid of
        • How could I fix it afterwards if it did go wrong
        • What would my life be like in 2/5/10 years if I didn’t do the thing I was afraid of.
    • Friendships 
      • Thomas Gordon 12 roadblocks
    • Funerals 
      • Conversation with Jenny Briscoe-Hough who enables access to affordable funerals 14 February 2018
    • Generalised anxiety (link to anxiety)
    • Grief 
      • Helen Macdonald: grief and a hawk Conversations with Richard Fidler 19 Jul 2016
    • Headaches/migraines
    • Health anxiety
      • Health Anxiety refers to constant anxiety about possible medical diagnosis to explain bodily symptoms. Typically. sufferers will frequently check symptoms on google and visit doctors regularly seeking reassurance with diagnostic tests such as xrays, ltrasounds and MRI scans. The reassurance only lasted a short time before further reassurance is required. Click here for an interview with Mia Freedman who discusses her own health anxiety with Sallyanne Atkinson from the Queensland Brain Institute in the Grey Matter podcast dated ???
    • Highly Sensitive People
    • Highly Superior Autobiographical Memory 
      • Andrew Denton PODCAST
    • Hoarding 
      • BIT Book, 
      • Buried in Treasures Conversations 16 July 2019)
    • Homosexuality 
      • Hannah Gadsby Nanette/Douglas
      • When Elizabeth Gilbert Fell In Love With Her Best Friend, Rayya https://www.mamamia.com.au/podcasts/no-filter/when-liz-gilbert-fell-in-love-with-rayya/
    • Huntingdon’s disease 
      • Huntingdon’s disease Lisa Genova
    • Infertility 
      • conversation with netball star Liz Ellis who has written a guide for couples suffering with infertility 27 April 2018
    • Richard Fidler Conversation podcast 
      • The science behind Lisa Genova’s fiction Wed 17 August 2016 )
    • Identity theft
      • FROM This is criminal Mother who stole daughter’s identity https://thisiscriminal.com/episode-125-the-less-people-know-about-us-10-25-2019)
    • Imposter phenomenon
    • Intelligence
      • types of intelligence
      • intelligence testing
    • Introversion 
    • Living life/values
    • Locked in Syndrome 
      • Locked in syndrome Peter Coghlan: surviving locked-in syndrome Conversations with Richard Fidler 17 Feb 2016
    • Meditation/mindfulness
      • Summary of mindfulness and exercises  https://www.blackdoginstitute.org.au/docs/default-source/factsheets/mindfulnessineverdaylife.pdf?sfvrsn=6
      • Story to help you understand/remember non judgemental observation https://medium.com/live-your-life-on-purpose/the-parable-of-the-old-man-and-the-white-horse-6269f46cdc8d
      • Links to Insight Timer
      • Links to meditation
      • UCLA MARC meditation https://www.uclahealth.org/marc/mindful-meditations
      • Mindfulness explanation and exercises to illustrate- https://markmanson.net/your-two-minds
      • Corey’s conscious living youtube bedtime stories meditation
      • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XWDkQW9-nBw
      • Elizabeth Gilbert on How to Show Yourself Compassion During a Crisis  https://www.travelandleisure.com/travel-news/elizabeth-gilbert-ted-connects
    • Memory
      • memory types
      • explaining lack of memories
        • salience of what she saw
        • dissociation due to trauma
        • never had anyone to explain the world
        • pre verbal events
    • Menopause 
      • Comedian Jean Kittson is tackling the taboos of menopause Conversations with Richard Fidler 25 May 2016
    • Menstrual Cycle/hormones/periods  (3 headings ?)
    • Miscarriage
    • Motivation 
      • Carrots sticks and other ways to motivate podcast https://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/allinthemind/carrots,-sticks-…-and-other-ways-to-motivate/10078514
    • Motor Neurone Disease 
      • Lisa Genova 
      • Richard Fidler Conversation podcast The science behind Lisa Genova’s fiction Wed 17 August 2016, 
      • Conversation with Professor Dominic Rowe neurologist 30 July 2018)
    • Narcissism 
    • Neuroplasticity 
      • Norman Doidge Richard Fidler conversation with ??
    • Neuropsychology 
      • book Duelling Neurosurgeons, 
      • Oliver Sacks interview with Bill Hayes – partner of Dr Oliver Sacks neurologist
      • Scientific writer of neuropsychological conditions interview with Lisa Genova http://www.abc.net.au/local/stories/2016/08/17/4521125.htm
    • OCD 
    • Ovarian cancer 
      • podcast Still Jill 
      • Pain (+ CRPS)
    • Panic attack (recovery Matt Haigh Conversation 16 August 2018)
    • Parenting 
      • parentlink 
      • Circle of security, 
      • Maggie Dent Mothering Our Boys book  + Conversations podcast 11 October 2018
      • http://gordonparenting.com/category/parenting-tips/
      • https://www.gordonmodel.com/work-roadblocks.php
      • Crabb’s Quarterly Essay, Men At Work, is finally out. She discusses with Sales the factors behind why more dads don’t take parental leave in Australia.  https://www.chat10looks3.com/podcast/ep119 + https://www.quarterlyessay.com.au/essay/2019/09/men-at-work/extract
    • Phobias 
      • Fear of Flying Lisa Millar Conversations 23 November 2018
    • Placebo/nocebo 
      • All in the mind placebo power
    • Polyamory
    • Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (Dissociation,
    • Pregnancy
      • The man who saved a million brains: Creswell Eastman’s pioneering work with iodine deficiency disorder  https://www.abc.net.au/radio/programs/conversations/cres-eastman-iodine-rpt/12061486
    • Prison 
      • Imprisonment Fidler 13 September 2018 + 
      • book Mr Ordinary goes to jail
    • Psychopaths 
      • What is psychopathy
      • David Gillespie Mamma Mia 21 August (Hare/ Lived experience mental health references
      • Sociopaths/serial killers – conversation with Donald Grant State Director of Forensic Psychiatry in Queensland 12 June 2018
    • Rejection therapy
    • Relationships 
      • Thomas Gordon 12 roadblocks
      • Gottman
        • 4 minutes Gottman discussing and modelling contempt and criticism https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FJDN3PKZ1KE
        • 4 minutes Gottman discussing and modelling defensiveness and stonewalling https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o5OdpPodpNY
        • 45 minutes https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AKTyPgwfPgg making marriage work 
        • https://checkup.gottman.com/assets/handouts/Sound Relationship House Flyer-ac63ee5feac2a6c548681939d064b3fe4bfc94d6eefcf0fd2553782c633e04b8.pdf
        • speaking/listening 
        • https://static1.squarespace.com/static/55bbdcf9e4b0c50a1d8402c7/t/5bc4cf210d92979df65514b5/1539624737634/Gottman+Rapoport.pdf
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      • Scientific data on marriage Gottman This American Life 261 The Sanctity of Marriage (Act 1) 23 minutes 26 March 2004  https://www.thisamericanlife.org/261/the-sanctity-of-marriage
      • 5 love languages, 
      • Esther Perel links,
      • https://podcasts.apple.com/fj/podcast/how-emotional-labour-makes-women-feel-exhausted/id995159486?i=1000431336629 Emotional burden
      • The 36 Questions That Lead to Love – The New York Timeswww.nytimes.com › 2015/01/11 › style › 36-questions-th…
      • https://healthymarriageandfamilies.org/sites/default/files/lms/CH2-Act2.pdf
      • Marriage Minute – Couples | The Gottman Institutewww.gottman.com › marriage-minute
      • 5 Love Languages Newsletter Subscription – Act-Onmoody.actonsoftware.com › acton › media › 5-love-lan…
    • Schizophrenia 
      • Tell me I am here book/podcast
    • Sensation seeking
    • Separation/divorce – 
      • custody/property settlement 
      • amica helps separated couples to: make parenting arrangements if they have children, and divide their money and property simply. https://amica.gov.au/about-amica.html
    • Sleep 
      • Sleep Michael Mosely INSIGHT 19 May 2020 Episode 16 Sleep hacks https://www.sbs.com.au/ondemand/program/insight Michale Mosely Fast Asleep
    • Social anxiety 
      • Sorry I’m late I didn’t want to come Jessica Pan
      • Paul Sanders https://getthefriendsyouwant.com/paul-sanders/
    • Stress
      • Holmes Rahe Stress Inventory https://www.stress.org/holmes-rahe-stress-inventory
    • Stroke 
      • Recovering from stroke Jill Bolty, 
      • young adults Lavinia Codd with Richard Fidler Conversations 25 June 2019, Conversation with Lavinia Codd who studies neurogenesis (brain regeneration) after a stroke 7 February 2018
    • Suicide 
      • conversation with Nic Newling’s brother 27 July 2018 
      • Beyond Blue + 
      • Online suicide safety plan from Beyond Blue https://www.beyondblue.org.au/get-support/beyondnow-suicide-safety-planning/create-beyondnow-safety-plan 
      • Conversation with Jessie Cole about suicide of her sister and father 24 May 2018
    • Synesthesia 
      • all in the mind podcast
    • Talking to specialists 
      • David Bnotes 25 Feb 2015
    • Technology addiction  
    • Tinnitus
    • Transgender
    • Trauma 
      • Severe accident trauma conversation with Anna Bartsch who survived a plane crash on Christmas Day in Burma 13 March 2018
      • Violent assault conversation with South African-born Clare Keenan who was left for dead after a brutal attack in her early 20s, 
      • Trauma memory and mental health all in the mind
      • Dissociation and coping with trauma DID ALL IN THE MIND
      • Hannah Gadsby Nanette/Douglas
      • What is trauma – big T and little t
      • PTSD and CPTSD
      • ACE Studies
      • explaining lack of memories
        • salience of what she saw
        • dissociation due to trauma
        • never had anyone to explain the world
        • pre verbal events
      • effects of trauma
      • RN ALL IN THE MIND talk on trauma Jan- May 2014 Maslow’s Hierarchy
      • Peter Levine explanation of trauma excess/overwhelm http://www.seaustralia.com.au
      • Trauma healing Southern Highlands NSW https://www.questforlife.com.au/schedule-of-events?utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=NEW%20Interactive%20Online%20Workshops&utm_content=NEW%20Interactive%20Online%20Workshops+CID_70f6587c329777f67278c60cee2e7806&utm_source=Email%20marketing%20software&utm_term=Schedule%20of%20Events%20%20Programs
    • Vulnerability 
      • Brene Brown TED talks
    • War 
      • Understanding war conversation with Neil James about love and romance during WWII, 
      • War and alliances conversation with Gina Perry on the real psychological “robber’s cave” experiments conducted by Muzafer Sherif 1 June 2018
    • Workplace bullying
      • book