Mental Health
service provider
We support children, young people, and adults living with Mental Health concerns to improve their wellbeing and pursue a life with meaning, hope and purpose. people to challenge and overcome many impacts of mental health and disability.
Just Breathe
Values
- The ability to understand, have compassion and share feelings is paramount to building new experiences and sets the stage for achieving measurable, positive change.
- Therapy is a collaborative approach founded on mutual trust and respect and is founded in cooperation.
- Positive change and growth are possible as we all have the tools necessary to lead a rich and fulfilling life
- We all possess the quality to be outstanding and achieving excellence is possible
- Honesty and showing a consistent adherence to strong moral and ethical principles and values is of the utmost importance.
Working with Just Breathe
Just Breathe is here to assist in improving the overall wellbeing in the community. Our aim is to provide innovative, flexible, and high-quality support to individuals with physical and mental health issues. We take the time to discuss your goals and ensure they align with your values. By reinforcing your actions, we assist in helping you manage life-draining thoughts, feelings, and emotions.
What we do
Focused Psychological strategies are specific mental health care management strategies, derived from evidence based psychological therapies that have been shown to integrate the best research evidence of clinical effectiveness with general practice clinical expertise.
We can assist in the following areas:
- Depression
- Anxiety Disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Disorder
- Paranoia
- Obsessive compulsive
- Substance
- Abuse/Addiction
- Behaviour concerns
- Relationship Concerns
- Parent / Child conflict
- Trauma
- Dissociation and dissociative disorders
Meet your clinician
Bridie Gigney is married and the mother of 3 beautiful boys. Her youngest son has Asperger’s, ADHD, Dyslexia and Dysgraphia so there is never a dull moment in her household!
Life is at time challenging; however, she finds time to also practice the skills she imparts on her clients and believes this is very important.
Her life has not always been a bed of roses and she too has faced challenging times – she will be the first to say that no one is immune, and stress and anxiety can affect anyone at any time, no matter who you are.
She enjoys riding her motorbike and spending time with family and friends. She enjoys a crossword, colouring in, and pottering in the garden.
What really drives Bridie is helping people find their best self and this has always been a passion – and again we all need a little help from time to time, no matter who we are!
Qualifications & Achievements
Bridie is a clinical member of the Australian Association of Social Workers (AASW). She completed her Social Work Degree from the University of Central Queensland, in 2003. Bridie has also attained her Accreditation as a Mental Health Social Worker in 2017. Her therapy tends to be person centred drawing on mindfulness techniques, although her work life has been very broad, having worked as a social worker in the Family court, Department of Child Protection, Department for Education, Department of Justice, Department for Community Corrections and Kinship Care and Assessment. In addition, she holds a Diploma in Child Protection and has completed training in Schema Therapy including Introduction to Schema Therapy, Schema Therapy Mode Work and Overcoming Therapeutic Impasses in Schema Therapy.
Bridie has extensive experience in providing therapy to adults and children and for the last 4 years she has focused on Mental Health and providing therapeutic services to both adults and children. She has an extensive history with working with adolescents and they are her favourite kind of human beings!
Therapy Interventions
Bridie is proficient in Psychoeducation (including motivational interviewing)
Cognitive-behavioural therapy (CBT), Dialectical Behaviour Therapy (DBT), Narrative Therapy, Behavioural interventions, Behaviour modification, Exposure techniques, Activity scheduling, Relaxation strategies, and Problem-Solving skills training.
Corporate Counselling
Just Breathe can assist business to ensure a healthy and positive work environment.
Why invest in mental health? Both employees and employers’ benefit from a healthy workplace. Keeping your workplace productive and efficient.
Mental Health issues affect business and the employees
Job performance and productivity
Engagement in one’s work
Communication with co-workers
Physical capability and daily functioning
Workplace Mental Health Facts
A worker may develop mental illness prior to employment or during employment. Most workers successfully manage their illness without it impacting on their work.
Some may require workplace support for a short period of time, while a minority will require ongoing workplace strategies.
It is often presumed that a worker’s mental illness develops outside of the workplace. However, an ‘unhealthy’ work environment or a workplace incident can cause considerable stress and exacerbate, or contribute to, the development of mental illness.
How common is mental illness?
- It is estimated that a GP who sees 40 patients a day can expect that between eight and ten (20 – 25%) of these patients will require support or treatment for anxiety or depression
- Mental health problems are the third biggest health problem in Australia, after heart disease and cancer
- Depression is currently the leading cause of non-fatal disability but only three per cent of Australians identify
it as a major health problem
(Source: mental Health First Aid Kit; beyondblue)
- A total of 3.2 days per worker are lost each year through workplace stress
- Stress-related workers’ compensation claims have doubled in recent years, costing over $10 billion each year
- A survey of over 5000 workers indicated that 25% of workers took time off each year for stress-related reasons
- In relation to psychological injury claims, work pressure accounts for around half of all claims and harassment and bullying for around a quarter of claims
- Preliminary research shows that Australian businesses lose over $6.5 billion each year by failing to provide early intervention/treatment for employees with mental health conditions.
*According to the Australian Human Rights Commission.