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Emotions…who needs them?

Sun, 14 Aug 2011 07:17:00

Wouldn’t it be much better to go through life without those annoying emotions getting in the way? Wouldn’t it be so much easier without those moments where you feel your emotions are in control? Wouldn’t it be better to be a perfectly rational, logical person without emotions all the time? Some people may be thinking this would be a great life. But, imagine missing out on Love.

Imagine missing out on the joy of seeing someone you love succeed. Imagine being the one at a funeral who feels nothing for the passing of a life. To live an emotionless life would be radically different to how your mind and brain actually work. Even trying it would be to deny half of your mental world.

A more rational approach is to live an emotionally well balanced life where you can acknowledge and integrate your emotions into your reasoning. To help you develop an ability to make logically sound and emotionally fulfilling choices.

This service can help you develop an understanding of yourself so that you can make positive changes in your life. When working with the “Psychorationalist” approach, your awareness of your own choices to use or deny your thoughts and feelings are always respected. It is central to the approach that you c...

The Psychorationalist Institute

We will work with you to transform your desires into reality by assisting you with Healing, Everyday Living and Performing (H.E.L.P.). We can provide counselling and psychotherapy in various clinical areas including depression, anxiety, post traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), acute stress disorder (ASD), bipolar disorder, self harm and personality disorders. We can also provide counselling in non-clinical areas such as relationship counselling, marriage counselling, self esteem, self confidence, anger management and pain management. Lastly we engage in ongoing research to develop tools and techniques to better help people live a life that they desire.

• Counselling and psychotherapy in all three areas of Healing, Everyday Living and Performing
• Focused Psychological Strategies (under Medicare Australia)
• Workcover treatment provider services (under Workcover claims)
• Employee Assistance Programs (EAP)
• Management Performance Programs (MPP))

All of our therapists are registered with Medicare, Occupational Therapy Australia, The Psychologists Registration Board of Australia or the Counsellors and Psychotherapists Association of NSW. This guarantees that when you refer to us you are referring to qualified professionals. The director and founder of the Psychorationalist® Institute is Dr. Paul A. Phillips. The Institute began in 2006 as a response to a need for mental health services that prioritised a person's ability to choose a better life and develop the skills to live that life.

Dr. Paul Phillips

Psychorationalist Institute Director

B.A. (HMS), B.App.Sc. (Occ. Th.), B.A. (Psych), Gd. Cert (Clin.Hyp.), M.H.Sc. (Beh. Sc.), PhD

Dr. Phillips has undergraduate degrees in sport, occupational therapy and psychology. He has post graduate degrees in behavioural science and a PhD in "The Self".

His PhD work has been published in international peer reviewed academic journals. He has presented this work and the benefits of the therapy at international conferences, such as the World Federation of Occupational Therapy and the International Conference for Applied Psychology. He has also been asked to present at national conferences, such as the Australia and New Zealand Association of Psychology, Psychiatry and the Law, the Australian National Occupational Therapy Conference and the Australian Psychological Society National Conference.

Dr. Phillips has worked with people from various socioeconomic and cultural groups who have had a range of mental health concerns from those requiring hospitalisation to issues specifically related to elite level athletes and celebrities.