LifeWorks Relationship Counselling and Education Services.
LifeWorks is a not for profit organisation that provides family, couple and individual
counselling, education, training and workplace services in Victoria Australia.

LifeWorks Media Centre

Comments, Contributions and Expert Opinion

LifeWorks has a number of psychologists, counsellors and experts available to provide comment and opinion on a wide range of relationship and workplace subjects including:

  • intimate relationships - formation, enhancement and separation
  • dating, partnership and marriage
  • parenting and family -  bringing baby home, raising toddlers, tweens and teens
  • step-parenting, grandparenting and blended families 
  • grandparenting
  • healthy relationships
  • family violence prevention
  • anger management.
  • workplace bullying.
  • managing, recruiting and retaining staff 
  • equal opportunity, mental health and wellbeing in the workplace
  • Employee Assistance Programs (EAP).
For more information, please contact:
Kim Edwards, LifeWorks' Marketing and Communications Officer
(Telephone) 8650 6200

LifeWorks in the Press

LifeWorks has contributed to a number of articles on a variety of topics.
Read through the Press Archive below to discover more.
 
   

LifeWorks' psychologist Dr Ben Jones discusses how to manage and prepare children for change associated with natural disasters. Australian Family Summer 2012


   
   

How do you sustain new year resolutions for 12 months? Meredith Brown, LifeWorks' Manager of Counselling offers practical advice on how to nurture and sustain positive relationships with important people in your life. Marie Claire, February 2012


   
   
LifeWorks' Psychologist Rebecca Henshall discusses mindfulness and resolutions. Cleo February 2012    
   
Is getting dressed making you stressed? LifeWorks' facilitator Dr Vivienne Mountain suggests how to handle the wardrobe challenge with independent pre-schoolers. The Mordialloc-Chelsea Leader, December 4, 2011   LifeWorks' Manager of Counselling Meredith Brown offers insights on how to enjoy the holiday period with partners, kids and extended family.The Herald Sun, December 26, 2011
   
LifeWorks' Psychologist Sue Pratt provides
tips on how to rekindle the spark in a
long term relationship.
The Herald Sun, October 24, 2011
  Can you have an argument without damaging your relationship? LifeWorks' Manager of Education shares her top tips on how to have a 'fair fight'.  
HeraldSun, November 21, 2011
 

 
 
Cheryl Dakis, LifeWorks' Manager of Education explains how to survive and thrive as a modern grandparent. 
The Herald Sun, September 5, 2011 

  Meredith Brown, LifeWorks' Manager of 
Counselling Services talks about affairs. 
The Herald Sun October 17, 2011
LifeWorks' Manager of Education, Cheryl Dakis discusses the psychology of food. Vogue Australia November 2011 




"Healthy living leads to healthy thinking and vice versa" says LifeWorks in the Workplace psychologist Rebecca Henshall. Cleo Magazine, October 2011


 

How do you handle difficult bosses or volatile managers? Cynthia Logan, Principal Consultant with LifeWorks in the Workplace offers advice and guidance. The Age, August 27, 2011

 

 
 

LifeWorks' CEO Kaye Swanton talks about the 
evolution of LifeWorks. 
The Melbourne Anglican October 2011


 

 

Should we be searching for the meaning of life or just get on with it?
Meredith Brown, LifeWorks' Manager of Counselling offers some suggestions. Cleo Magazine August 2011

 

   

     
How do you deal with your
partner's ex in a blended family?

Young children swearing - how can you manage this behaviour? Australian Family Winter 2011 Click here to read the online article.


     

  
Workplace Bullying
Australian Financial Review, April 12, 2011
Physical Contact in the Workplace - Is it Acceptable?
The Age, March 5, 2011
   
   
Sustaining a long term relationship.
Tips on how to make it last.
Herald Sun, April 5, 2011
   
 
 

 

 
 
 
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