Understanding and Overcoming Trauma Triggers: Empowering Yourself for Healing
Understanding and overcoming trauma triggers to empower yourself for healing by learning about the brain and using the window of tolerance.
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Amirah Ahmad Shah
- Nov 30
- 3 min
What is NDIS Counselling? Why should I consider counselling as an NDIS participant?
What is NDIS Counselling, what the benefits are, assessing your NDIS counselling needs and how it fits into your NDIS plan.
Amirah Ahmad Shah
- Nov 6
- 5 min
Are you experiencing 'Grief'? How do you 'Mourn'? Is there Multicultural Grief Support?
Learn about grief, mourning, and how CALD/multicultural grief counselling can support you appropriately.
Amirah Ahmad Shah
- Jul 29
- 4 min
Has Trauma Affected Your Sleep?
Trauma and childhood trauma can affect sleep, cause insomnia and nightmares due to hyperarousal and hypervigilance.
Amirah Ahmad Shah
- Apr 7
- 9 min
Do you want to understand the triggers to your trauma? Do you understand your trauma response?
Understand the triggers to your trauma so that you can have a better control of your trauma responses.
Amirah Ahmad Shah
- Dec 27, 2022
- 3 min
Is Your Grief Unresolved? Do You Need Grief Counselling?
Identifying whether you are suffering from unresolved grief and how grief counselling can help.
Amirah Ahmad Shah
- May 9, 2022
- 3 min
Have you experienced Posttraumatic Growth from COVID-19?
Learn about Posttraumatic Growth and developing resilience after a collective traumatic event.
Amirah Ahmad Shah
- Apr 5, 2022
- 5 min
How to Deal with My Childhood Trauma?
Understanding Childhood trauma and how to heal from it
Amirah Ahmad Shah
- Feb 4, 2022
- 8 min
Why Do I Feel Lost in My Grief?
Understanding grief and loss and why you can feel lost when grieving. How to grieve well?
Amirah Ahmad Shah
- Dec 5, 2021
- 4 min
Why Do I Feel Stuck?
Feeling stuck is a common human experience. So you are not alone. You can feel stuck at some point in your life, whether in your career,...
Amirah Ahmad Shah
- Jul 14, 2021
- 6 min
Online Learning: Poor Concentration & Distractedness. Why & How to Fix it.
Do you struggle with online learning? Do you find yourself getting distracted when listening/ watching lectures on the computer...? Maybe...
Amirah Ahmad Shah
- May 26, 2021
- 3 min
CALD Family Matters in a Western Society: Women's Perspective
ABC News journalist, Christina Zhou, published a story on Australia Talks about What Australians think about Marriage and Children. She...
Amirah Ahmad Shah
- May 18, 2021
- 4 min
Counselling VS Psychotherapy
What's the difference between Counselling and Psychotherapy? These two terms are often used interchangeably, but... Is there really a...
Amirah Ahmad Shah
- Mar 19, 2021
- 2 min
Your Therapist is Your Cheerleader
NOT in the way that strokes your ego, but in the way that he/she is silently cheering you on towards your goals. In a way that also...
Amirah Ahmad Shah
- Mar 1, 2021
- 2 min
Do You Have Your Five Freedoms in Your Culture?
Do you have the freedom to experience, think, desire, feel and imagine, in your family? Does the rest of your family have these freedoms?...
Amirah Ahmad Shah
- Feb 28, 2021
- 5 min
How to understand the Science of Grief and Find Meaning in Your Loss
Do you want to go through grief alone? It's such a personal experience. but you don’t need to go through grief and bereavement alone....
Amirah Ahmad Shah
- Feb 9, 2021
- 1 min
EQ vs IQ?
It's not one or the other. You can cultivate EQ. You are more aware about yourself, you can articulate and express yourself well, and you...
Amirah Ahmad Shah
- Feb 1, 2021
- 3 min
What Trauma Looks Like: Maladaptive behaviours.
The effects of Trauma are sometimes more obvious that you think. The wheel shows us what trauma can actually LOOK like. You can also...
Amirah Ahmad Shah
- Jan 27, 2021
- 2 min
Reminders, Appointments & Showing Up
Clients sometimes ask me why I do not send them reminder texts or emails for their appointments. My answer to this is that therapy...
Amirah Ahmad Shah
- Jan 25, 2021
- 2 min
Shit Happens. Such is Life. Question is: What can YOU do about it?
How we cope with major stressors in life can determine: whether we succumb to psychologically negative effects, or experience...
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