A practical and supportive 5-week wellbeing course designed for women who want to better understand stress, anxiety, panic symptoms, and emotional overwhelm in everyday life. This course offers simple, evidence-informed strategies to help participants feel calmer, more grounded, and more confident in coping with day-to-day pressures.
Across five sessions, participants will explore the body‘s stress response, the links between thoughts, feelings, physical sensations, and behaviours, and a range of practical coping tools including breathing, grounding, mindfulness, relaxation, and CBT-informed strategies. The final week focuses on reflection, feedback, and consolidating learning, so participants can recognise what has helped them most and leave with a realistic ongoing wellbeing plan.
The course is suitable for women across different life stages and backgrounds. No prior knowledge is needed. It is delivered in a supportive, non-clinical community learning format and includes discussion, reflection exercises, guided practice, journaling activities, and take-home wellbeing tools. No concession.

Tutor Profile:
I have always been curious about people, why we think, feel and behave the way we do, what shapes our emotions, and what helps us grow and make meaningful changes in our lives. Over time, this curiosity developed into a genuine passion for psychology, wellbeing, and the connection between mind, body and behaviour. This interest led me to formally study psychology at Western Sydney University, where I developed knowledge across developmental psychology, counselling skills, behaviour change, psychological well being, research and ethics. My academic journey has also included postgraduate professional training in psychology, recognition through the Dean‘s Merit Lists and Golden Key International Honour Society, and publication of my Honours research.

Alongside my academic background, I have undertaken further training in counselling and psychotherapy, somatic approaches, NLP life and parent coaching, hypnotherapy and holistic wellbeing. Teaching has become a meaningful part of my journey. I currently teach undergraduate psychology students at Western Sydney University and enjoy making psychological concepts practical, relatable and easy to understand. I believe people learn best when they feel comfortable, respected and able to participate without judgement.

In my classes and workshops, I use simple explanations, everyday examples, discussions, reflection and practical strategies that learners can apply in daily life. My hope is to help people understand themselves more deeply, trust their abilities and recognise their own strengths and self-worth. I especially value supporting women to build confidence, believe in themselves and realise that they are capable and enough. My aim is to help people heal, nurture their strengths, thrive with confidence, and eventually bloom into the person they are capable of becoming.

Classes are organised into 4 terms each year, with speciality workshops running throughout the year.

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Agenda

Week 1: Understanding stress, anxiety, panic symptoms, and overwhelm; the fight-flight-freeze response; how thoughts, emotions, body sensations, and behaviors become linked; body-map activity; breathing and grounding practice.

Week 2: Calming the body and mind through breathing, grounding, mindfulness, and present-moment awareness; practical live exercises to manage emotional overload in everyday situations.

Week 3: Thoughts, worry, and CBT-informed coping; understanding unhelpful thinking patterns such as catastrophizing, overthinking, and self-criticism; thought-feeling-behavior triangle; journaling and self-compassion activities.

Week 4: Building calm, connection, and ongoing wellbeing; creating a personal wellbeing toolkit; support network mapping; routine, boundaries, self-kindness, rest, and realistic coping planning.

Week 5: Reflection, review, and wellbeing planning; revisiting the key tools from the course; discussing what participants found most useful; sharing personal insights and progress; and developing a simple plan for continuing helpful strategies beyond the course.

Materials

First session: Notebook or journal, pen, and a willingness to participate in gentle reflection and practical exercises. Participants may wish to bring a personal journal or folder for handouts (approx. $5). The tutor or college will provide all other course materials or worksheets.