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Last week I completed my first round of IFS intens

Last week I completed my first round of IFS intensives for formal certification, and it was a ride full of highs, lows, and everything in between. I spent the week meeting my own protectors, sitting with my firefighters, and even touching into the tender exiles. Hard, humbling, beautiful work… and I’m genuinely grateful for all of it.

Even the place where the training was held took time for me to lean into. I noticed a lot of resistance to the space itself and that, too, became part of the work. This is what IFS invites us into: getting curious about every part that steps in, including the ones that want to push back, resist, or go blank.

I was so humbled by the humans I met, the ones I leaned into, and even the ones who activated me. Each of you offered me something to keep learning about myself, and I’m deeply thankful for that.

A heartfelt shout-out to any of my clients I’ve met through the treatment space. After last week, I have an even deeper respect for you, for living, breathing, eating, and meeting all your parts in such an intense environment. That week gave me a small taste of what that really asks of you.

In the words of Janina Fisher: “How do we befriend parts of ourselves?”
The answer is the same way we befriend anyone, with interest, curiosity, and compassion.

I’m cautiously excited for the next set of intensives online, ready to meet whatever parts show up next.

And after such a big week, it felt so good to fly home to Poppet and take the time to nurture my own parts again - slowly, gently, and with the softness they deserved.

Here’s to all our parts, and to the courage it takes to meet them.

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Therapists be like: “Manifesting a light gossip se

Therapists be like: “Manifesting a light gossip session… but prepared for a generational-healing plot arc.”
Because that’s therapy - equal parts humour, heartbreak, healing and human.
Every part belongs.

Happy Saturday from The Bigger Picture Clinic.

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Welcoming Indi to the Clinic 🩵 I came to be a the

Welcoming Indi to the Clinic 🩵

I came to be a therapist after a big transition from a previous life. I work with a simple belief: everyone deserves to be truly heard and accepted for who they are, not who they think they should be. My first and foremost goal is to create a safe space for you, where we can unpack the challenges life has thrown at you together.
As an integrative therapist, I don’t subscribe to a single therapeutic school or rigid approach. Instead, I’ve trained extensively across multiple modalities—ACT, Person-Centered Therapy, Gestalt, Psychodynamic, Narrative, and Creative Therapies—because I’ve learned that different people need different things at different times.
I weave these approaches together based on what you need, not based on what my training says I “should” do. This is your therapy, and it should fit you. Because life is not simple or straightforward, but rather a windy road, that sometimes contains treacherous terrain. I know because I have lived some of these times myself.
But here’s what doesn’t change, regardless of approach: I listen. Really, deeply listen. I create a non-judgmental space where you can be completely yourself—messy, confused, contradictory, vulnerable. I don’t rush to fix you or offer shallow advice. I trust that you have wisdom within you, and my job is to help you access it.
I work with adults navigating all kinds of struggles: anxiety that won’t quiet, depression that feels overwhelming, relationships that confuse or hurt, life transitions that shake your sense of self, past experiences that still haunt you, and that persistent feeling of being stuck or lost.
I am also very interested in the context that we find ourselves in, in todays day and age, where there is growing numbers around mental health, that demonstrate a downwards trajectory in how people are feeling about the world, others and themselves. However, so much of the blame for this is piled on the individual, but I am interested in the context, and what is going in our world, society and culture to bring us here. And how can we change it.
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Happy Halloween from The Bigger Picture Clinic 🎃

Happy Halloween from The Bigger Picture Clinic 🎃

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We all carry haunted houses inside us — places whe

We all carry haunted houses inside us — places where old memories creak, boundaries slam, and ghosts of the past still whisper.

Healing isn’t about burning the house down — it’s about turning the lights on, room by room.

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October Spotlight ✨ Meet Annabel 🌿 Annabel Wellma

October Spotlight ✨

Meet Annabel 🌿
Annabel Wellman is a Melbourne-based psychotherapist who offers a warm, client-centred approach for children, teens, parents, and individuals.

She integrates evidence-based and creative therapies ,including CBT, Internal Family Systems, play and attachment-based therapy, to support anxiety, depression, self-esteem, trauma, and life’s challenges.

Annabel’s practice, Wellmind Counselling, is part of The Bigger Picture Clinic in Elsternwick and Malvern. Her gentle, compassionate style creates a safe space for growth and healing.

Outside the therapy room, Annabel loves time with her daughter and dog, coffee, the beach, and gardening.

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