Brave Therapy

28/05/2026

Low-cost Supervision Groups are starting soon: https://bravetherapy.com/low-cost-supervision-group/

21/05/2026

In my work with clients, I see how trauma settles in the body — not only as tension, but in patterns that persist long after the original threat has gone.

A recent review in Frontiers in Psychiatry has helped me think about this more clearly. The authors describe how chronic stress changes the fascia — the connective tissue running through every part of us. Over time, it stiffens. The layers stop gliding the way they should. The signals it sends to the brain become less clear.

This is one of the reasons that talk therapy, on its own, can take some clients only so far. Trauma is not held only in the mind. It is held in the tissues, the nervous system, and the connective web that links them.

If you work clinically with trauma, this is unlikely to surprise you. What the paper offers is a clearer account of something many of us have been observing for years.

I’ve written more about what it means for our work here:
https://bravetherapy.com/fascia-and-trauma-why-the-body-belongs-in-the-mental-health-conversation/

18/05/2026

Thank You for Being Part of the Starting Strong Conference

The PACFA Starting Strong Conference brought together over 1100 participants for a highly engaging day of practical insights and guidance on building a career in practice.

Read all about it here: https://www.pacfa.org.au/portal/News-and-Advocacy/news/2026/April/strating-strong.aspx

16/05/2026

Worth listening to:

Are mental health diagnoses more cultural than biological? We discuss all this and more on this podcast episode.

16/05/2026

Some good advice here:

Tough chats are manageable if you have clear steps to take. Experts share tools that they have used in their own lives.

15/05/2026

Very interesting.

Connecting autism’s many human faces with invisible biological factors underlying its diversity of symptoms is a grand challenge facing the research community. As noted by a team of investigators led by a BBRF grantee, it is widely assumed that behind the many clinical manifestations of autism are...

15/05/2026

Join We Al-li in Naarm / Melbourne for a rare public workshop series led by Alison Elliott and Jem Stone.

These workshops support trauma-informed practice, cultural competencies, and the integration of Indigenous frameworks into your work through grounded, relational, and reflective learning experiences.

🌿 Dadirri
📅 27–28 June 2026

🌿 The Prun – Managing Conflict
📅 15–16 August 2026

🌿 Addictions, Violence & Spirituality
📅 14–15 November 2026

✔ Standalone workshops
✔ Certified & PACFA-endorsed
✔ Discounts for attending all three
✔ Dedicated rates for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander participants

Learn. Connect. Integrate.

Booking is open on this link

https://www.trybooking.com/events/landing/1579971

14/05/2026

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/11/opinion/adhd-autism-depression-diagnoses.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share

Neither genetics nor brain scans can distinguish a person with depression, A.D.H.D. or autism from one without.

14/05/2026

It is connection that heals, not the quick fixes.

Carly Schwartz wanted a solution for her mental health struggles. She found one, but not where she expected

12/05/2026

https://www.eventbrite.com.au/e/one-off-group-supervision-tickets-1989284724160 One-off supervision groups
Topping up your supervision hours? Curious to get a feel for how I work before committing to an ongoing group? My one-off supervision groups can do both.
Same format as my closed monthly group — two hours, max six participants, $160 — but without the ongoing commitment. Open to PACFA, ANZAP and ACA registrants. You’ll get a real taste of how I supervise: relationally, with a body-based and nervous-system-informed lens, and as much attention to what’s happening in the room as to the case you bring.
One-offs are genuinely useful in their own right. But the deeper relational and somatic work tends to unfold in the ongoing group, where the same small circle of colleagues meets month after month and the security between us has time to settle. That’s just the nature of group work. therapistsofaustralia somaticsupervision traumainformedsupervision