Psychology Tools & Insights List

Discover how perimenopause and menopause can impact not only your physical health, but your emotional health too, and how evidence‑based psychological therapy can ease mood changes, anxiety and trauma with more confidence and clarity.

Midlife often brings long‑standing emotional patterns into sharper focus. Underlying or unresolved issues such as trauma, chronic anxiety, depression, shame, harsh self‑criticism, people‑pleasing and burnout can feel more intense or harder to manage during perimenopause and menopause - but they can also become more changeable once we recognise and gently work with them.

This stage can be deeply challenging, but it can also be a turning point. With the right psychological support, it becomes more than something to simply endure; it’s an invitation to reconnect with yourself, understand what your mind and body are asking for, work through unresolved experiences, and develop a steadier, more compassionate way of living in your body and your life. If this resonates, I offer warm, evidence‑based in‑person therapy in Sydney.

First Steps in Healing From Complex Trauma or complex PTSD- here is a gentle, trauma-informed guide for people who want to heal but don’t know where to begin. It explains what complex PTSD is, why survival patterns like shutting down, overthinking, people-pleasing and hypervigilance make sense, and offers practical first steps in safety, stabilisation and nervous system regulation. You’ll learn grounding skills, DBT TIPP techniques, urge surfing, and simple reflection prompts to help you feel more present, steady and self-compassionate.

Recovering from narcissistic abuse can feel impossible when you’re stuck in self‑blame. Sydney clinical psychologist, Malika Ferry, offers schema therapy and EMDR for compassionate narcissistic abuse recovery and trauma therapy, in person and via telehealth.

Mindfulness strengthens focus, aligns habits with values, and empowers you to shape your character and destiny through intentional thought and action.

A guide to moving through emotions without making them bigger using a simple 2-minute practice that helps to reduce overwhelming thoughts and rumination.