If you need urgent help please call Lifeline on 13 11 14. They have people waiting to support you.

If you are feeling well enough, you can also get in touch with our team. We will do our best to see you straight away for urgent appointments if we can.

Your treating psychiatrist will discuss your treatment plan with you at your initial appointment to find the right session plan to meet your needs. The number of sessions will depend on this plan and on your own needs.

Our office is conveniently located at Room 338, Level 5, Watkins Medical Centre, 225 Wickham Terrace, Spring Hill QLD 4000. There is free on street parking, and public transport available via bus.

Please get in touch via phone at 0731450440 or email at admin@grasstreegroup.com.au. You can also book in for your initial discovery chat via our booking form.

If you have been referred by your local GP, we’re also happy to receive that referral via fax or email. Once we have received your referral we will contact you to schedule your appointment.

Most people with a diagnosed anxiety disorder can be helped with professional care. However, it can take time and patience to find the right treatment strategies, tools and even medications for an individual’s unique circumstances. That’s why we always tailor all our treatments to each of our patients individually.

The only way to truly know if you have anxiety is to get a diagnosis from an expert therapist. But you can get some insight by understanding that while anxiety is a normal part of life (it’s a biological reaction to perceived danger) when it’s overwhelming, persistent or it interferes with your daily activities, you might have an anxiety disorder.

Anxiety in the normal course of life can be caused by any number of things. But anxiety disorders – those that are overwhelming, persistent or interfere with your daily activities – can actually have a biological basis. In other words, if your mum or dad struggled with anxiety, you might be more inclined to have a similar challenge.

Anxiety disorders can also be triggered by brain chemistry and life events.

Any medications prescribed will be carefully considered for your unique situation. They could include:

• Selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs), which work by increasing serotonin levels in the brain.
• Serotonin and norepinephrine reuptake inhibitors (SNRIs), which affect the chemical messages used to communicate between brain cells.
• Tricyclic antidepressants, which work by creating changes in brain chemistry and communication in brain nerve cell circuitry known to regulate mood.
• Benzodiazepines slow down the messages travelling between the brain and the body and have a mild tranquilising effect.

All humans will experience sadness at one time. But depression is more than just feeling blue or sad occasionally. With depression the sadness or low feelings tend to be pervasive. They may last for weeks or more. They may also include feelings of hopelessness, low self-esteem or self-wroth, feelings of guilt, an inability to enjoy life and a loss of relationships among other things.

Depression can be caused from many different things, and often the cause is a number of things that interact together. This can include genetic predisposition, psychological and environmental factors, a psychiatric condition, as a result of an underlying medical condition or even caused by the use of certain substances, like alcohol.

Yes! Depression is absolutely treatable. Untreated depression can lead to serious consequences. If you have concerns that you’re depressed, please get in touch with our team as soon as possible.

Everyone deserves to have a happy, joy-filled life. While things won’t always go your way, you don’t have to live with untreated depression either. In fact, untreated depression can lead to more frequent, more prolonged and more intense depressive episodes and it can significantly interfere with your ability to function well at work or school, and impact the success of your relationships too.

Absolutely not. While a significant number of veterans do suffer from PTSD, it can impact anyone and arise from a wide range of traumatic incidents. These might include sexual or physical assault, abuse, an accident or even natural disasters.

A therapist who is experienced with PTSD can diagnose PTSD. But you might consider seeking such a diagnosis if you are experiencing flashbacks, nightmares or frightening thoughts, or if you find you’re avoiding places, events of objects that remind you of an experience, if you feel numb, guilty, depressed or worried or if you’re losing interest in activities you normally enjoyed.

PTSD is a mental illness, and like most mental illnesses, it’s not curable. However, also like most mental illnesses it is very treatable. The goal for PTSD treatments is to see the symptoms resolved and we can certainly do that together.

PTSD can be developed by anyone at any age. Though it’s often associated with people in the military, or who have experienced extreme trauma, it can also be experienced by people who have been the victims of abuse, who have experienced an accident, a disaster or some other traumatic event.

• Retirement
• Marriage
• Having a baby
• Death of a loved on
• Relationship changes
• A medical diagnosis
• Environmental disaster
• Challenges at school
• Challenges at work
• Financial challenges
• Loss of a home or living situation

One global study found that about 2% of people are affected by adjustment orders. However, this number is significantly higher among people who have lost jobs (27%) or lost loved ones (18%).

Any change could trigger an adjustment to change disorder. This could include something big like the loss of a spouse, or something that might seem normal and easy to cope with, like the birth of a child.

No. There is no particular treatment for adjust to change. Instead, the treatment is usually a combination of several different tactics. These therapies are designed to treat the issues that arise from change adjustment disorders and deliver vital coping strategies.

Medical treatments may be helpful for treating chronic pain certainly. But psychological treatments are also an important part of managing pain. These treatments help you understand the thoughts, emotions and behaviours that accompany chronic pain and help you to manage and cope more effectively with your pain and even reduce its intensity.

Your therapist can work with your other medical providers to develop a comprehensive treatment plan that addresses both the physical and emotional aspects of pain.

The best treatment for an individual’s chronic pain will vary depending on their individual circumstances. However, generally the best treatment will be a combination of therapies that together increase effectiveness. We’ll work with you to find the best combination of treatments to ensure you the most success.

Pain is considered chronic when it is experienced on most days of a week and lasts for three months. You can have chronic pain without any explanation for the pain.