Liz McDonald Counselling: The Therapy Hub

16/10/2026

Still some time to put your name down for Mondays class at 6pm
Focus is on physical self defence, how to break a hold, get up and away quickly, defend a strike etc
$50

10/10/2026

We have a few spots available for this closed course being held at Swan Hill Jiu Jitsu, Monday 12th & 19th October 6pm start
$100 for the 2 nights
Please inbox me to express interest
Payment for both nights to be paid to Swan Hill Jiu Jitsu

08/10/2026

So we had a bit of a reception area facelift today thanks to Swan Hill Carpet Court

Lots to be put back tomorrow but at least we have our admin desk, a Millie Jack Gate up & a few basics done!

05/10/2026

We have 5 spots available for this closed course being held Monday 12th & 19th October 6pm start
$100 for the 2 nights
Please inbox me to express interest
Payment for both nights to be paid upfront to secure your place

01/10/2026

The Flying Doctors do so much more than emergency flights & outback medicine.
Just within our small part of The Mallee here are some of the service that the RFDS provides:

• Mobile Dental Care: Purpose-built dental trucks provide oral health treatments to small rural communities where the distance to a public clinic exceeds 50 km.
• Rural Women’s GP Service: Female general practitioners fly in regularly (such as weekly visits to Robinvale) to offer primary care, screenings, and a choice of doctor gender
•Flying Doctor Wellbeing & Mental Health: Free mental health support and counseling for residents aged 18+ experiencing stress, grief, or financial/family difficulties, with no GP referral required
•Mobile Eye Care / Optometry: Regular monthly eye clinics run in partnership with the Australian College of Optometry to offer free Medicare-billed eye exams and affordable glasses
•Speech Therapy: Free early childhood speech pathology and language development programs tailored for children aged 0–12 years at local health clinics and via telehealth
•Remote Specialist Telehealth: 100% bulk-billed video link consultations connecting local patients with specialists in Melbourne (covering cardiology, geriatrics, psychiatry, and more) to eliminate travel barriers.
• Patient Transport: Non-emergency patient transport using road vehicles and aircraft to help rural residents reach major hospitals and specialist

Pretty amazing isn’t it? But they don’t get enough funding from the Government to do all of this & as much as Gina has helped this great cause, more is needed.
So…

Today I completed my first 3km’s today
toward my 98km goal for October

Please Please, if you can spare even $10 then please donate today

I'm going further this October and I need your help! I've registered for Oceans to Outback, a month-long challenge to raise vital funds for the Royal Flying Doctor Service. I'll be pushing myself to the limit, going a long way and testing my fitness levels, but I'm determined to go further to ensure...

30/09/2026

Oh it’s a good thing I love you Millie Jack! This was what I found just before I was to leave for work this morning!
Meet Matilda, Millie’s sausage dog friend we see most mornings when we walk.

27/09/2026

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I'm going further this October and I need your help! I've registered for Oceans to Outback, a month-long challenge to raise vital funds for the Royal Flying Doctor Service. I'll be pushing myself to the limit, going a long way and testing my fitness levels, but I'm determined to go further to ensure...

24/09/2026

People sometimes assume that I’m wealthy because I own my own business (in fact I had a person suggest this just the other day).

They are very wrong, I am far from wealthy, but I am rich. I’m rich because my world is filled with the best that life can bring. Not the type of best many may think. If you confuse the best as being the best restaurants, the best designer clothes, facials, cars, houses, upper class associates, best clubs, church, family name, neighbourhood, school etc…
Then I am sorry for you because if thats your version of ‘The Best’ then you are more delusional than the most psychotic person that I have ever encountered.

The best that makes me rich are the people who I meet that entrust their most vulnerable thoughts, emotions, & experiences with me. Words & thoughts that are so hard to say out loud that it steals a persons breath!

Wealth does not equate to riches just as attitudes of enlightenment does not equate to rights.

Wealth can buy you diamonds, pearls, opals & other fine gems. But the value of these items is lost in the flashy showcase, the price tag, the box & flashy wrapping.

The true value, the richness of a diamond is the process of its creation around 200km beneath the earths surface. The subjection of carbon atoms to unbearable heat & pressure over millions of years before its pushed toward the surface via volcanic eruptions to someday be found by human hands.

What about that natural pearl? It started as a bit of grit or debris that got stuck inside the shell of an oyster. Unable to get rid of the irritant the oyster doesn’t waste time trying to push it away. Instead, it creates a protective pocket, a boundary between it & the problem so as not to be impacted by the abrasiveness. In time, within the space of the oysters shell the invader grows and smooths to become what we know to be a pearl.

And that opal? Opals require time, so much time; deep underground in cavities containing grains of silica within solid rock that becomes saturated with rain water seeping through those layers & then the water evaporates over time leaving the silica to layer into neat stacks forming tiny wavy prisms transforming into amazing light catching colours we know as opals.

What does this have to do with the richness of my world & why my interpretation of being rich beats the s**t out of being wealthy?

I’ve got to meet lots of wealthy people that own diamonds, pearls & opals but very few of these people know the true value of these gems beyond the price they paid.

The best of the best of the people I get to call my patients - the ones who come to trust me with their breathe, their silence that comes before being able to find words to match their feelings & memories. The moments that the holding of their breathe & silence feels uncomfortable & awkward but still safe. These people are my diamonds, pearls & opals. Grown from darkness, pressure, heat & grit in a different type of underground or deep water to those other gems.

These are my people; strong, rough, brave, gritty, uncut. Made from pressure & determination that the wealthy, entitled, polished class will never understand. Those poor wealthy bastards don’t know what they are missing. I’m glad this is where I am.
Why?
Cause I Can! 😊☕️

20/09/2026

Back into a bit of writing today. One month into building a 12 month reflection journal.
Inbox me if you might be interested in buying a copy when I’m done.

16/09/2026

Feeling very blessed & appreciated today
Thank you to
Just Cause 😊