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Thrive Wellness Toowoomba

Thrive Wellness Toowoomba

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I’m drinking lots of water but can’t quench my thirst. Why? Eat well, think well Neuroplasticity in action

I’m drinking lots of water but can’t quench my thirst. Why?

What a heatwave!! (*pauses to wipe brow) Instinct has us reaching for water to quench our thirst, but for some of us, regardless of how much we drink, we remain thirsty. Why? Did you know your body needs more than just water in order to hydrate? Specific minerals, called electrolytes...
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Eat well, think well

A healthy diet isn't just about physical health - research increasingly emphasises the importance of diet to our mental health.
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Secrets to achieving more in less time

Sometimes there just aren't enough hours in the day. Our lives are so busy; it is so hard to allocate time to all the important things we want to get done. Read on for the secret to doing more in less time.
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Humans: not optimised for logic

The Wason Selection Task is a logic puzzle that, despite its simplicity, less than 10% of people can answer correctly. Are you one of those few?
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Hungry hungry hippocampus: Diets and your brain

Wanting to eat better, lose weight or improve fitness is one thing … for many of us, actually achieving these goals can prove elusive. Common sense is not always enough to achieve lasting change, and there is such diverse and too often contradictory information out there on health, fitness and dieting.
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Neuroplasticity in action

The thing that amazes me most, watching this video, is that even under circumstances that are tremendously prejudiced to failure, the neuroplasticity of the brain makes success possible. What might your brain be capable of that may seem impossible to you today?
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Welcome to Thrive Wellness - Toowoomba

Thrive Wellness is a health clinic offering Clinical Psychology, Exercise Physiology, Bowen Therapy and nutrition services in the Toowoomba area.

Our goal is to support you to be healthy in your mind and body so you can be doing what matters to you.

Our philosophy

We believe that as much as possible, people should be able to manage their own health. At Thrive Wellness our aim is to promote self management of both your physical and mental health. Our clinicians will work with you to collaboratively identify treatment goals that are important to you, have measurable outcomes and enable you be active in doing those things that matter most to you.

We recognise that relief of symptoms is only part of a bigger picture when it comes to your health. We aim to provide treatments that have functional outcomes - such as getting you active again in your work and hobbies - not just reduction of pain or distress. We believe it is important to provide you with practical resources and strategies to be able maintain the long-term health of your mind and body.

In working towards symptom relief it is useful to be aware that many treatments can seem to initially increase symptoms. This is because we often automatically adopt strategies for managing symptoms that provide short-term relief but not long-term management. Treatment may require ceasing use of these strategies of short-term relief while implementing a more effective management. This is explained in relation to psychological wellbeing in our article, "It Gets Worse Before it Gets Better" - but the same patterns also often apply for our physical health.

Our Services

We are dedicated to providing affordable, specialised treatments to all ages - children, adolescents and adults.

Our Exercise Physiologist and Bowen Therapist offers assessments and treatment for a range of muscular, neurological and metabolic conditions and physical pain or injury. Treatment plans are customised to your individual needs, taking into account the interaction of factors such as physical symptoms, nutrition, sleep, beliefs and emotions.

Our Clinical Psychologist offers assessments and treatment for obsessive compulsive disorder, borderline personality disorder, depression and anxiety.

Our Clinicians

Dr Paul McQueen, Clinical Psychologist

Dr Paul McQueen, Clinical Psychologist in Toowoomba

Dr Paul McQueen is the Clinical Psychologist at Thrive Wellness. He has experience working in both adult and child mental health services in Queensland and Victoria and in providing supervision to psychologists in public mental health service and private practice settings.

Dr McQueen has particular interest in the treatment of Obsessive Compulsive Disorder, Borderline Personality Disorder and Depression.

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Felicia McQueen, Exercise Physiologist; Bowen Therapist; Nutritionist

Felicia McQueen, Bowen Therapist; Exercise Physiologist in Toowoomba

Felicia McQueen is the Exercise Physiologist, Bowen therapist and Nutritionist at Thrive Wellness. She has experience in working with all bodies, from infants through to the elderly, in areas of injury prevention, rehabilitiation and chronic disease management. She has experience supporting families with multiple allergies and intolerances and has keen interest in the role of nutritional medicine to the autonomic nervous system in optimising cellular health and reversal of disease processes.

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Thriving - Health News & Insights

Thriving is a blog maintained by clinicians at Thrive Wellness. Below are some of the most recent posts to Thriving. You can also explore more content using the topic links at the side of every page.

Motivation experiment days 16-18: the joys of imperfection

Paul McQueen June 27, 2014 June 15, 2015Motivation experiment, thriving motivation, perfectionism 0

As my experiment in drawing daily continues I notice fluctuations in intrinsic motivation, and reflect on the threat that perfectionism poses to accomplishment.

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Motivation experiment days 13-15: the role of praise

Paul McQueen June 24, 2014 June 15, 2015Motivation experiment, thriving depression, extrinsic motivation, intrinsic motivation, praise, social feedback 0
Koala chewing a gum leaf

My experiment in motivation continues into the 15th day of drawing daily, and I reflect on the effects of praise on motivation and how these effects can be altered by depression.

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Motivation experiment – days 9-12

Paul McQueen June 21, 2014 June 15, 2015Motivation experiment, thriving motivation 0

As my experiment in daily drawings progresses from day nine to 12 my intrinsic motivation to draw continues to increase, and I decide to try out some tracing.

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Motivation part 2 – Rewards and Punishment

Paul McQueen June 20, 2014 June 15, 2015Motivation, Psychology, thriving extrinsic motivation, motivation, negative reinforcement, operant conditioning, positive reinforcement, punishment, reinforcement, rewards 0
Drawing of a skate boarder

Operant conditioning is the technical term used in behavioural sciences for learning from consequences.

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Motivation experiment days 7 & 8

Paul McQueen June 17, 2014 June 15, 2015Motivation experiment, thriving motivation 0

After a little over a week of drawing daily, my interest and enjoyment of this daily task starts to pick up through a combination of positive feedback from others and my own sense of accomplishment.

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Motivation experiment days 5 & 6

Paul McQueen June 15, 2014 June 15, 2015Motivation experiment, thriving motivation 0

As my experiment with drawing daily to see what happened to my motivation continues, so does the struggle thinking of things to draw. But by forcing myself, some ideas do start to come.

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Motivation experiment days 3 & 4

Paul McQueen June 13, 2014 June 15, 2015Motivation experiment, thriving motivation 0

By day four of my motivation experiment a lack of ideas for what to draw begins to feel like it is going to be a constant obstacle. But then things start to change.

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Motivation experiment day 2

Paul McQueen June 11, 2014 June 15, 2015Motivation experiment, thriving 0

The main motivator to do this drawing was having committed myself to doing a drawing each day for this experiment. I had to push myself to keep to my commitment to draw this, and struggled with feeling I didn’t know what to draw. I managed that obstacle by telling myself it didn’t matter if I just scribbled – as long as I drew something.

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