Mental Health Insights
The Naum Centre's growing library of evidence-informed articles designed to help you better understand mental health, relationships and emotional wellbeing.
Explore practical strategies, concepts, and everyday tools covering topics such as anxiety, ADHD, trauma, grief, boundaries, stress, identity and personal growth.
Whether you're looking to better understand yourself, support someone else, or complement your counselling journey, our articles aim to make mental health knowledge accessible, practical and relevant to everyday life.
Why Is My Teenager So Irritable? Understanding Adolescent Mood Swings
Intense, unpredictable moods are one of the most common features of adolescence, and they're usually driven by real, ongoing brain development rather than deliberate difficulty.
Understanding what's happening developmentally can make the irritability easier to respond to, even when it's genuinely hard to live with day to day.
What Is the Window of Tolerance? A Simple Explanation
Ever notice how some days you can handle anything, and other days the smallest thing tips you over the edge? That’s your window of tolerance at work, the zone where your nervous system can stay calm, think clearly and cope with what life throws at it. Step outside it, and you move into fight-or-flight or shutdown mode. Understanding this zone is the first step to working with your nervous system instead of against it.