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 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.
More about Paul McQueen
Felicia McQueen, Exercise Physiologist; Bowen Therapist; Nutritionist
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.
More about Felicia McQueen
Thriving - Health News & Insights
Motivation experiment days 13-15: the role of praise
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.
Motivation experiment – days 9-12
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.
Motivation part 2 – Rewards and Punishment
Operant conditioning is the technical term used in behavioural sciences for learning from consequences.
Motivation experiment days 7 & 8
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.
Motivation experiment days 5 & 6
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.
Motivation experiment days 3 & 4
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.
Motivation experiment day 2
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.
Motivation and the secrets to getting things done – part 1 – Intrinsic and Extrinsic motivation
What makes you get out of bed in the morning? What makes you go to work? What makes you read a book, or sit down to watch tv? Motivation has been on my mind because one of the biggest challenges in providing effective psychological treatment for depression seems to be overcoming motivational barriers that are a symptom of depression. For example, exercise is known to be an effective treatment for depression – but how can a depressed person exercise consistently enough to experience improvement in mood when lacking motivation is a characteristic symptom of depression? If you have experienced depression you probably know that loss of interest and energy together present a huge obstacle to treatment.