When Success Becomes Suffering: Understanding Senior Executive Burnout and Workplace Stress It’s 11.02PM and Sarah’s phone buzzes again. Another “urgent” email from her team leader in London. She’s been the Chief Operations Officer at a...
There is stress in the Australian workplace. I was recently interviewed as part of a Herald Sun piece titled ‘Alarming trend: How Aussie workers are silently struggling revealed.’ Here is a brief excerpt: Australians are “quietly cracking’’ at work, as...
In my time working at Armchair Psychology, it has become evident to me that each of the Psychologist team members have varied and valuable skill sets. No one person can claim to know everything about everything, so it is helpful for me to know that wherever...
The psychology team at Armchair Psychology Practice talk a lot about the issues that affect our clients. The one that is overwhelmingly at play is grief – in all its forms. Whether there has been a death of a loved one, or someone we love is dying; whether...
Yesterday I did one of my favourite things – live radio! I was on SBS Radio, in their Artarmon studios, and responded to listeners’ questions about the range of issues that challenge us as we get older. Depression was obviously a common theme – whether it...
With the prevalence of social media, online bullying and trolling has unfortunately become more present than ever. Kids can no longer escape the school yard bullies in the sanctuary of their own homes, with the online world making it easier and more accessible for...