Welcome to Thrive Wellness - Toowoomba
Thrive Wellness is a health clinic offering Clinical Psychology, Psychology, Exercise Physiology and Clinical Nutrition services in the Toowoomba area. In addition to in-person consultations in our Toowoomba clinic, our services are available via telehealth and telephone consultations Australia wide.
Our goal is to support you to be healthy in your mind and body so you can be doing what matters to you.
Our philosophy
We believe that as much as possible, people should be able to manage their own health. At Thrive Wellness our aim is to promote self management of both your physical and mental health. Our clinicians will work with you to collaboratively identify treatment goals that are important to you, have measurable outcomes and enable you be active in doing those things that matter most to you.
We recognise that relief of symptoms is only part of a bigger picture when it comes to your health. We aim to provide treatments that have functional outcomes - such as getting you active again in your work and hobbies - not just reduction of pain or distress. We believe it is important to provide you with practical resources and strategies to be able maintain the long-term health of your mind and body.
In working towards symptom relief it is useful to be aware that many treatments can seem to initially increase symptoms. This is because we often automatically adopt strategies for managing symptoms that provide short-term relief but not long-term management. Treatment may require ceasing use of these strategies of short-term relief while implementing a more effective management. This is explained in relation to psychological wellbeing in our article, "It Gets Worse Before it Gets Better" - but the same patterns also often apply for our physical health.
Our Services
We are dedicated to providing affordable, specialised treatments to all ages - children, adolescents and adults.
Our Clinical Psychologists and Psychologists offer assessments and treatment for a variety of mental health conditions, including but not limited to, obsessive compulsive disorder, borderline personality disorder, depression and anxiety.
Our Exercise Physiologists offer assessments and treatment for a range of mental health, muscular, neurological, and metabolic conditions and physical pain or injury. Treatment plans are customised to your individual needs, taking into account the interaction of factors such as physical symptoms, sleep, beliefs and emotions.
Our Clinical Nutritionist seeks to identify the physiological, biochemical and environmental contributors to your health symptoms and provides specific nutrition, exercise, lifestyle and supplement prescriptions.
Thriving - Health News & Insights
“I have an anger problem” – time for assertiveness
Often when people talk about having an “anger problem” what they really have is an aggression problem. Assertiveness is anger done safely – no aggression required.
Four ways to handle a fight
Conflict. Most people hate it. Because we hate it, we usually do what we can to avoid it. There are essentially four ways we can handle a fight or disagreement with someone. Only some of them are good ways.
“It’s not me – it’s you” – a problem of perspective
Ever noticed someone completely ignorant of their own shortcoming and blaming others? How do you know whether you are overlooking your own faults?
Learning to be anxious: the conditioning of fear
I don’t like to feel afraid. I want fear to stop. Relief from fear is nice. Anxiety is almost universally maintained by the reward of escaping anxiety. If you want to overcome anxiety there is really no option but to let youself fear.
Intrusive thoughts: the uninvited visitors
Thoughts of swerving into traffic, pushing someone off a cliff: Intrusive thoughts happen to us all. Research has showed the content of an intrusive thought for an average person is identical to an obsession in someone with OCD. How do they differ?
Life on the Line – what is Borderline Personality Disorder?
Feelings of being rejected and abandoned by Jenny were quickly followed by feelings of intense anger. With every passing minute Charlene felt increasingly furious at Jenny. Why did Charlene’s friends always end up hurting her like this? She concluded that it was because she is a vile, detestable person. Nobody could possibly care for someone so obviously defective.
Rewire your brain: neuroplasticity FTW!
Our brains are not like computers. Neuroplasticity is the ability your brain has to rewire itself in response to experience. What implications does this have for depression and other psychological conditions?
What is the difference between a psychologist and a counsellor?
A counsellor assists a person to develop understanding of themselves, their circumstances or their problems and facilitates change and setting goals. A psychologist applies scientific research to understanding and shaping human behaviour. Many psychologists provide counselling – but not all.