Lakeside Rooms

08/06/2026

PSYCHOLOGIST VS PSYCHIATRIST : Understanding the Key Differences

When life feels overwhelming or confusing, or just too much to manage alone, reaching out for mental health support is one of the most courageous moves you can make. But once you start to look around, you might notice that there are different mental health professionals who offer therapy or treatment, and it’s not always clear who does what.

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At Lakeside Rooms, both psychologists and psychiatrists work together under one roof. Therapy and medical expertise combined to support your unique needs.

07/06/2026

The question isn’t why does this child need to control everything. The question is who taught them - without meaning to - that no one else would.

A child who manages every adult in the room isn’t powerful. They’re exhausted. Doing a job that was never theirs to do, with resources that were never built for it.

The most loving thing an adult can do is take that job back. Not harshly. Not as punishment. Just warmly, firmly, and with the quiet certainty of someone who is actually in charge.

That certainty is not control. It’s relief, for everyone - especially the child.

07/06/2026

You are not "an anxious person" or "an avoidant person." You're a person who learned a way of staying safe in relationships, and learned patterns can be unlearned.

06/06/2026

PRACTITIONER SPOTLIGHT: JADE ROSS

Jade is a Clinical Psychologist with experience working with children, adolescents, families, and adults. Jade offers a warm, bubbly, and flexible approach in her therapeutic work. She is passionate about providing a safe and collaborative space that focuses on supporting clients to better understand their mental health, empowering them to move through emotional discomfort in a way that feels manageable, and to navigate life’s challenges with greater confidence and resilience.
Learn More: https://www.lakesiderooms.com.au/meet-the-practitioners/jade-ross

07/05/2026

04/05/2026

Beyond the 5 Stages of Grief: Everyone’s Path Is Different

Luke Foster, Psychologist at Lakeside Rooms offers valuable insight into this universal, deeply felt human emotional process.

There’s no “one way” to grieve, no timeline, and the so-called “stages of grief” don’t tell the whole story. Grief is not a train line and it’s not a checklist to tick off. If you’re feeling lost, scattered, numb, angry – or all of that at once – you aren’t broken. You’re grieving, and that’s human.

Forget the “Stages” of Grief – It usually doesn’t work that way

You’ve heard the list: denial, anger, bargaining, sadness, acceptance. Truth is, they don’t always show up, they don’t follow a neat order, and sometimes they hit all at once. One moment, you’re numb; the next, you’re blindsided by emotion in the middle of the cereal aisle. Some days you’re exhausted, restless, or irritable. Other days you laugh at a memory and feel okay for a moment. All of it is normal.

Grieve in any order, at any speed. You’re still doing it “right.”

Read More: https://www.lakesiderooms.com.au/blog/grief-beyond-the-5-stages

03/05/2026

This is one of the most important things to understand about your relationship:

It’s not just what happened…
it’s the meaning your nervous system makes of what happened.

03/05/2026

Rumination and processing can look identical from the outside because both involve returning to the same material. The difference is direction.

Processing moves. It integrates. It produces small shifts in how something is held. Rumination circles. It reinforces. It deepens grooves without ever finding a way through.

Save this and share it with someone who needs to see the difference.

03/05/2026

What would have made a difference for you when you were a little person in big feelings - when you were sad, angry, anxious? How can you given this to yourself now? Your young person now?

Rather than, ‘What does this behaviour say about me?’ ask, ‘What need is this behaviour trying to meet?’ Or, ‘What is this behaviour trying to solve?’

The needing or the solving isn’t deliberate, and it’s never about a ‘bad’ child. It’s what happens when they don’t have the resources in the moment, or when the ‘right’ ways haven’t worked. This is something that happens to all of us.

Co-regulation (breathe and be with) and relationship let us add to their resources in their stormy, stretched moments. And it’s always ok to take a pause if you need to.❤️

03/05/2026

DBT Skills. Dialectics