Living and Learning Centre – Strathpine

The Living and Learning Centre offers clinical care coordination and mental health and wellbeing coaching to people living in the North Brisbane and Pine Rivers area experiencing severe mental health distress. The team can offer a combination of place-based and outreach individual support, in addition to a number of self-development and therapeutic group programs.

Who is this service for?

The Living and Learning Centre provides mental health support services for people:

• 18 years and over
• living in northern Brisbane suburbs or Pine Rivers region
• have mental health concern significantly impacting life
• not accessing similar services

Peer Wellbeing Coaching

Group programs run at the Living and Learning Centre can help you to build confidence, gain independence and develop skills.

Health Matters

Individual and group support to identify what matters to you and learn strategies to support you to live a meaningful life.

Wise Choices

An Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) based program that will give you the skills to lead a healthy, meaningful life and improve relationships with yourself and others.

You will learn new skills to help with difficult thoughts and feelings, develop a healthier way to relate to your thoughts and discover more about yourself and what is important to you.

DBT Skills

Dialectical Behavioural Therapy (DBT) is an evidence-based therapy being used to treat a variety of mental health concerns.

Its core skill components include:

• Mindfulness*
• Distress Tolerance (7 weeks)
• Emotional Regulation (9 weeks) and;
• Interpersonal Skills (8 weeks).

By completing all four modules individuals will have developed skills and strategies to manage emotions, work through crises and maintain effective relationships.

*The Mindfulness component of DBT is incorporated into each of the other 3 modules.