Mental Health Support

Explore how spiritual bypassing develops and how it affects emotional and relational wellbeing. A trauma-informed psychologist offers guidance on healing, integrating faith and feelings, and building emotionally healthy Christian and religious communities.

Creating emotionally safe faith communities begins with compassionate language and honest support. When churches listen, validate emotional pain, and walk alongside those who suffer, they reflect the heart of grace, mercy, and belonging.

Scrupulosity is religious OCD, where faith and fear collide. Learn how a faith-sensitive psychologist helps break the cycle of intrusive thoughts, compulsions, and guilt using evidence-based, compassionate therapy.

Adult clergy sexual abuse shatters trust and faith. Learn how trauma impacts mind and body, and how a faith-sensitive psychologist can support recovery through safe, compassionate, trauma-informed care.

Feeling anxious, low, or overwhelmed doesn’t mean you’ve lost faith. Discover how therapy and Christian belief can work together to support mental health, strengthen resilience, and help you reconnect with peace through faith-sensitive care.

Many pastors and chaplains experience burnout, fatigue, and spiritual exhaustion. Learn why ministry takes such a toll and how counselling with a faith-sensitive psychologist can help restore balance, purpose, and emotional wellbeing.

Struggling with faith-based anxiety or perfectionism? A psychologist for scrupulosity or moral OCD can help you find peace, understand your thoughts, and rebuild trust in your faith through compassionate, evidence-based therapy.

Do you stay up at night worrying and ruminating? Discover psychology for Christians that addresses rumination and worry. An Australian Christian psychologist explains schema therapy, the inner critic, and faith-sensitive ways to find freedom from thought loops and live with greater peace.

Scrupulosity, or religious OCD, traps Christians in cycles of intrusive thoughts, guilt, and compulsive rituals around faith. This article explains the signs of scrupulosity, its impact on prayer, worship, and spiritual life, and how treatments like CBT and ERP bring healing. With compassionate Christian psychology support, individuals can separate faith from fear, break the cycle of religious OCD, and rediscover peace, freedom, and authentic connection with God.

Burnout is more than stress—it’s emotional exhaustion, disconnection, and loss of purpose. Karen’s story reveals how chronic workplace demands and leadership pressures can spiral into burnout. Learn the signs, impacts, and recovery strategies, including therapy and Christian psychology support. Refuge Psychology, led by registered psychologist Kylie Walls, offers compassionate, faith-sensitive care for leaders and individuals facing burnout and mental health challenges.

Unresolved trauma is like cracks in the foundation—hidden but damaging over time. This article explores how past experiences, family dynamics, and institutional harm (including spiritual abuse and religious trauma) shape mental health today. Learn why therapy often revisits the past to repair these foundations and build resilience. Refuge Psychology, with Christian psychologist Kylie Walls, offers compassionate support for healing from abuse, trauma, and faith-related challen