Why CEABA is different
You lead. Phil walks it with you.
Phil provides the skills and the perspective. You do the changing, and he stays alongside you through the parts that are hard.
Side by side
Phil doesn’t only teach skills and send you off. He works through the challenges with you, and is patient when you put things off. He wants to hear your story the way you want to tell it, and to know how you want to be supported.
Since 2016 CEABA has grown from Phil’s clinical work in mental health, family violence and alcohol and drugs, with veterans, Queensland Corrective Services clients, Australian Federal Police officers, young people in youth justice and families in child safety.
Failures get celebrated too
Every try counts. When something doesn’t work, you look at what you learned and go again. Taking the fear out of failing is what lets people change.
So the small wins get celebrated, and so do the attempts that didn’t come off.
Your whole health
Mental, emotional, physical and social health feed each other.
- Feeling better mentally: regular exercise lifts mood
- Saving money: junk food, smoking and drinking are expensive habits
- Fewer health problems over time
- Feeling in control of your own life
You set the goals and steps together, so you stay in control of your health after the sessions end.
The start of the ending
You started the journey together, so you finish it together. When the program ends, Phil keeps checking in for a month, until you’re ready to go on alone.
Where the approach comes from
- Dialectical behaviour therapy
- Bringing two perspectives together to build resilience and change unwanted emotions, behaviour and thoughts.
- Biopsychosocial model
- Why emotions and actions are hard to manage: the biology, psychology and social life behind them.
- Psychosocial health
- The mental, emotional, social and spiritual sides of being healthy.
- Three dimensions
- How people learn: through thinking, feeling and the people around them.
- Social justice
- A map of where you’ve come from, where you are now and where you’re heading.