Inclusive Minds Counselling

Inclusive Minds Counselling EMDR therapy in Hobart for anxiety, trauma, emotional overwhelm, burnout, attachment wounds, and relationship patterns.

Practical, emotionally intelligent therapy that feels human.

05/06/2026

you can’t change my mind on this 🙃

03/06/2026

Sometimes people think therapy is only about what gets said in the room.

But I think the space matters too.

The feeling of arriving.
The moment your nervous system realises it doesn’t have to brace quite so hard.
The quiet reminder that you don’t need to have everything figured out before you walk through the door.

Small touches.
Soft lighting.
Tea.
A chair that feels comfortable enough to exhale in.

None of it is the therapy itself.
But I think it helps create a space where people can be human first.

What helps you feel safe or settled in a space? 🤍

03/06/2026

I think a lot of people want deep connection while also fearing what closeness might cost them.

Not because they don’t want intimacy.

But because intimacy has sometimes meant:
losing themselves,
over-functioning,
becoming emotionally responsible for other people,
or feeling emotionally consumed.

So they swing between:
wanting closeness…

and needing distance to feel safe again.

I don’t think enough people were shown what healthy interdependence actually looks like.

Connection without emotional engulfment.

Connection without abandoning yourself.

Did anyone else grow up feeling like relationships were either complete independence or complete loss of self?

02/06/2026

I think a lot of people learned to associate emotional needs with weakness.

So instead of being direct about what they want, they “play it cool.”

Not because they don’t care.

Because needing people started to feel emotionally risky.

I also think a lot of people only learned two relationship models:

Complete self-reliance.

Or losing yourself inside someone else.

Did anyone else grow up feeling like needing too much from people was dangerous?

01/06/2026

I think social media talks about attachment styles like they’re fixed parts of your personality.

But most attachment behaviours are relational.

You can feel deeply anxious in one relationship…

and completely secure in another.

Which is why attachment often has less to do with “who you are”…

and more to do with what your nervous system believes it needs to do to protect you.

Have you noticed yourself show up completely differently depending on the relationship?

28/05/2026

You’ve probably been talking about your trauma for a long time
and still feeling stuck

That’s not a you problem

Insight helps
but it doesn’t always shift what your nervous system is holding

Trauma isn’t just something you understand
it’s something your body remembers

That’s where processing comes in

In EMDR, we’re not just talking about it
we’re helping your brain actually resolve it
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I’m Alanna, a q***r, neurodivergent therapist in Hobart, Tasmania.
I work with trauma, relationships, and big, messy emotions.

Follow along if you like honest, human therapy content 🤍

28/05/2026

let’s survive this together 🥲

27/05/2026

hi i’m a therapist 🏳️‍🌈✌️
based in Hobart, seeing clients Australia-wide online

27/05/2026

Sometimes the issue isn’t that you don’t want to change 🐛

It’s that part of your system still experiences the old pattern as protective.

So you try to do something differently…
and your body reacts like it’s unsafe.

That’s why insight alone doesn’t always create change.

Sometimes therapies like EMDR help because the nervous system needs more than intellectual understanding before different behaviours actually start to feel possible.

You can’t always shame yourself into behavioural change while your body still experiences the old pattern as survival 🌪️

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