What is your body telling you? IMI Counselling Psychologist Jessica Lau shares how psychotherapy can unravel the cause of persistent physical symptoms.
Mind, mood and brain power
Students’ stress and how parents can help
What can parents do to help their children during these difficult times? IMI Psychotherapist and Certified Counsellor Eugnice Chiu shares some of the challenges that teenagers face, and simple ways to reduce their stress.
Why an integrated approach to mental health is important
Your body and mind are inextricably connected. At IMI, we’ve worked with thousands of individuals for over three decades: what our clinical experience proves time and time again is that there are seven key factors that impact your overall wellbeing.
How movement can transform your mental health
With the summer upon us, now may be the ideal time to explore different sports and physical activities to reduce pent-up stress and increase mental wellbeing,
How osteopathy strengthens your respiratory system and boosts your immunity
Respiratory health can be impacted by multiple factors – some of which are far less obvious than a change in weather or a nasty bug doing the rounds. Excess weight, posture, a previous injury, for example, can all affect your ability to breathe easy. So too can former traumas, surgical...
Depression: it’s not all in your head
Many people believe that depression is caused by chemical imbalances in the brain, and in particular, an imbalance of serotonin – our ‘feel good hormone’. The textbook medicine approach is to prescribe anti-depressants to increase brain serotonin. This works for some people; but it does nothing for others. Why? Because...
Nutrients to nurture your mind and improve your mood
Supplements to help support mental health challenges, informed by science and our clinical experience of supporting those with stress and low mood.
Attune to your natural rhythm of rest
written by Christiane Guy, IMI Bowen and Cranio-Sacral Therapist Are you one of the millions whose worries seem to have worries of their own? Thanks to the pressures of living in a highly competitive and unpredictable world, many of us are trapped in a cycle of chronic anxiety from which...
How to silence your inner critic
We all have an inner critic. It allows us to recognize where we may have gone wrong. But, left untamed, it can break us down or affect our mental health.
What’s behind your anxiety? Discover sources and solutions with naturopathy and psychotherapy
Your health and happiness are dependent on seven factors: mind, body, emotions, spirit, energy, community and environment. Seemingly unrelated, these interconnected factors all play a significant role in how you feel and how you are every single day. Take Jane, a thirty-year old first-time mum who was unwell and unhappy....