Jennifer Pittorino
Locals will soon have access to a number of free mental health and wellbeing sessions at the Braybrook and Maidstone Neighbourhood House.
Beginning on Wednesday, February 14, the sessions will be facilitated by Vonnie Vaughan from Calm Hearts Kinesiology.
She said she works to help people with stress and all sorts of health related concerns.
Ms Vaughan’s work varies on the client, but all is done to help people get back into balance.
“That could mean a lot of things to a lot of people, for some people it could be a physical or mental thing,” she said.
“The sessions I will be running at the neighbourhood house are mainly going to be helping them manage anxiety and stress.”
While the sessions are not labelled as grief counselling, Ms Vaughan will be guiding people in how to manage their grief as well as anxiety created by stress.
“It will bring a few skills and tools into helping people manage their thought processes and their positive thinking as opposed to their negative thinking.”
Neighbourhood house manager Vivienne Conn said she is very excited to be welcoming Ms Vaughan back after previously hosting these sessions.
“Everyone is so excited to have Ms Vaughan back, the sessions are filling up very fast,” she said.
“Many people here in Braybrook who come to our neighbourhood house are in need of a mental wellbeing programme.
Ideally, Ms Conn would like to bring in a social worker once a week to help people combat the long wait times to see professionals.
She said they see so many people with so many issues, so it’s important to do something in this area.
“We would like to get as many of these wellbeing programmes as possible.
“We’re very big on it here because it’s so important to this community and we do ask the community what they want.”
The sessions will run twice a month until July.
Bookings: 9317 5610, 0428 904 068 or emailing office@bmnh.org.au.
