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Borderline Personality Disorder and Relationships
How does Borderline Personality Disorder affect relationships? Personality Disorders are the collective name for a range of long-term...
Curtis Cavanagh
Jan 16, 20232 min read
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What is Emotionally Focussed Therapy (EFT)?
EFT therapists focus on emotions and explore the unmet needs underlying negative emotions. The link between negative emotions and...
Curtis Cavanagh
Dec 1, 20223 min read
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Intent vs Impact
Do you ever find yourself locked in a tricky spot with a significant other, where one of you makes a gesture with all the good intentions...
Grace McMurtrie
Nov 4, 20222 min read
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Procrastination and Adult ADHD
With ADHD comes a certain degree of "I know I should do the thing, but I just cant get started"; or "excuse me while I stare blankly at...
Curtis Cavanagh
Oct 27, 20222 min read
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Why does it feel like my ADHD gets Labelled as Anxiety?
A leading reason for the referral of adult clients is for support to manage anxiety. That sounds reasonable, but many clients present...
Curtis Cavanagh
Sep 26, 20222 min read
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Perfectionism
Perfectionism is a personality characteristic where a person strives for flawlessness, and is often accompanied by an overly critical...
Grace McMurtrie
Aug 31, 20222 min read
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Adulthood Consequences of being Raised by Harsh Parents
I’ve written previously about different parenting styles, but today I want to talk in more detail about the effect of “harsh” (i.e....
Grace McMurtrie
Aug 12, 20222 min read
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Why did I "get" ADHD as an Adult?
At You Matter Psychologists, a large part of what we do is assess adult clients for neurodevelopmental disorders such as Attention...
Grace McMurtrie
Aug 3, 20222 min read
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What we don't say to People with Anxiety
Everyone on earth experiences anxiety. Without it, as a human race we would have been wiped out millions of years ago.There are varying...
Grace McMurtrie
Jul 28, 20222 min read
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Emotion Dysregulation
We’ve all been there. It’s a Saturday morning, around 10am. You’re browsing Kmart (or Bunnings). Maybe you’re with your significant...
Grace McMurtrie
Jul 20, 20222 min read
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Why do anxious people chase emotionally unavailable people?
Have you ever wondered why you seem to attract people who are emotionally unavailable? It turns out, it isn’t necessarily the universe...
Grace McMurtrie
Jun 22, 20222 min read
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New Relationship Styles
It seems like back in the day, things were so much simpler. We taped songs directly off the radio; if it wasn’t in Encyclopaedia...
Grace McMurtrie
Jun 15, 20223 min read
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Ending a Relationship
Ending a relationship rarely comes as a surprise to both parties. While one partner may feel blindsided, often the other has spent time...
Grace McMurtrie
Jun 8, 20224 min read
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The Difference Between Social Anxiety and Introversion
Social Anxiety is a term that I hear get thrown around more and more lately. Sometimes people will come to therapy convinced that they...
Grace McMurtrie
May 25, 20223 min read
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Leaning into Discomfort
Do you ever feel like there is something blocking you, in your way? Or perhaps it feels like you are stuck on something that has happened...
Grace McMurtrie
May 4, 20223 min read
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How Daily Stress Results in Anxiety
Everyone experiences daily stress and anxiety – it is a normal part of adult life. Chronic stress and anxiety however, can take a toll on...
Curtis Cavanagh
Apr 27, 20223 min read
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A Crash Course on 'Feel Good' Hormones
Something we talk a lot with our clients about are our “happy hormones”. Whether it is in relation to the potential causes of mood...
Grace McMurtrie
Apr 20, 20222 min read
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OCD vs OCPD
Obsessive Compulsive Disorder is one of the anxiety related disorders that tends to get minimised the most. It is common to hear comments...
Grace McMurtrie
Apr 20, 20222 min read
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Parent-Child Relationships Impact on Intimate Relationships
Something that has been a common theme with my clients recently has been the development and maintenance of intimate relationships in...
Grace McMurtrie
Apr 13, 20222 min read
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How do we Assess for Neurodevelopmental Disorders?
As you may or may not know, You Matter is a leader in providing assessments for adult neurodevelopmental disorders such as Autism...
Grace McMurtrie
Mar 23, 20223 min read
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