Madeleine Riley

Art therapist in Sydney. Mum to one. Works in Mental health and NDIS. Books, paint, plants, pianos and coffee.

[Dan Wilbur @DanWilbur]

Sorry, folks. You can’t fully grasp the Odyssey by seeing a film version! You also can’t comprehend it by reading it in a book. You have to hear it sung by a bard in dactylic hexameter while in such an ecstatic state of drunkenness, you channel the Muse and add your own lines.

[Jonathan Shedler @JonathanShedler]

Many people have the misconception that therapy is about dispensing explanations and advice.

It’s an understandable misconception but it’s dead wrong. More than a century of clinical knowledge, accrued over generations, teaches us us that advice and prepackaged “answers” don't help.

Psychotherapy is about coming to know *oneself* more fully and deeply, and discovering our own answers—answers that align with our own internal experience and are right for us personally. No one can know those kinds of answers in advance.

It’s hard work and it often involves facing painful truths we’d often prefer to avoid.

People want a bypass around that kind of hard work. They want prepackaged answers served on a platter. That’s what makes his kind if AI slop so compelling to so many.

[No BS Therapist @TweetATherapist]

The most avoidant person you know is yapping right now about boundaries and toxic people

[Nicole Lampert @nicolelampert]

This is a good statement from the Imams of Australia.

[Edward A. Perin - Psychologist @DoctorPerin]

I see therapists blackpilled about the future of the psychotherapy profession.

Not me.

Now that AI can do the brief CBT manuals that took over the last thirty years, I see people returning to depth work.

More dudes are turning to depth too. I foresee a therapy renaissance.

[Madeleine Riley @madddgrace]

@darnlew Following this journey from the far east. Two down, one to go right?!?

[Jade Stanton @jadethebpdcoach]

My mother lost two psychiatrists to suicide.

So I beg you, if you are a practitioner, get help and take a leave of absence if you’re struggling.

It’s so much better than the alternative. Your patients deserve you healthy and well.

And you deserve a chance to have that too.
❤️

[Madeleine Riley @madddgrace]

My old uni got hacked and someone tried to revoke my degree and I’m still expected to go to work tomorrow? #wsu

[Madeleine Riley @madddgrace]

Sci fi intrusive thoughts should be a genre of x. I’m watching too much #foundation and all I think about is what it’s like waking up after 150 years pass

[No BS Therapist @TweetATherapist]

AI will mostly replace therapists for

1. People who think therapy is advice (it’s not advice)

[Helen Joyce @HJoyceGender]

I'm deeply disappointed to learn how many of you are wrong about marzipan

[Bec Shaw @Brocklesnitch]

"i cant see how the coalition wins from here"

[Edward A. Perin - Psychologist @DoctorPerin]

We don’t need a “Mental Health Awareness Month” we need a “Build housing, Create jobs, and Lower the cost of living” Month

[Malcolm Farr @farrm51]

day has been won by this offering from hard-working democracy bake folk at Marrickville public school .

[Edward A. Perin - Psychologist @DoctorPerin]

Behavioral science is the study of behavior.

Psychodynamic science is the study of interaction and interdependence of psychological variables at various levels of awareness.

Both are rad

[Madeleine Riley @madddgrace]

@darnlew This is what we did last time we visited

[Madeleine Riley @madddgrace]

@julie52009876 @AjaxXanthe Not with qualified art or music therapists. What I see at day centres is usually just colouring in with support workers or other professionals saying it’s art therapy. We’re more like counsellors or psychologists.

[PPLSAYABLEISTTHINGS🤦‍♀️ @UGHPPLSAYTHINGS]

Bill Shorten decided he wanted to emulate Principal Skinner when it comes to disabled people accessing art and music therapy:
#NDIS

[catherine o'brien @obrien_cathie]

https://t.co/VGuJuTefgm
This is a shocker. This isn't NDIS fraud. It's therapy! There's much evidence to support the value of this one-on-one therapy. @billshortenmp you need to prove it doesn't work where it is evidence based. If you can't refute the evidence then"let it be".

[Madeleine Riley @madddgrace]

Crying on public transport like a true mental health clinician #tistheseason