Author Archives: Mr. Shannon Quinn, Registered Psychologist

Just a quick note to inform you that SQPsych is accepting new referrals and to introduce you to the newest member of the SQPsych team. Emily Millar – Counsellor Emily Millar is an enthusiastic new graduate counsellor well placed to work with children, adolescents, and adults supporting them to address a variety of concerns including:•Continue reading “Welcoming Emily to the SQPsych team”

SQPsych has secured office space in Mount Gravatt. As many of you know, SQPsych is continually growing and changing, much like we do as people. Over the next couple of months I will be setting up the new office space in Mount Gravatt to welcome clients (new and existing) and begin operating. The plan isContinue reading “SQPsych is moving!”

Individuals with ADHD who come to see me for therapy often ask what is going on in their brain, and how their brain is different from “normal people’s” brains. I struggle to answer this question because 1. I don’t want to spend too much of our time together lecturing about the latest literature on theContinue reading “My ADHD brain: 4 areas of the brain affected in ADHD”

Earlier this year I employed an illustrator to help me develop some prompt cards to use in session with clients, stimulate conversation, and add a visual component to further explain some of the unhelpful thinking styles commonly seen in anxiety, depression, and other psychological difficulties. I think they have come together really well and theContinue reading “Free for Download: Prompt Cards for Conversations about Cognitive Distortions”

At times, individuals with neurodevelopmental disorders (i.e. Autism, Intellectual Disability, ADHD) can behave in ways that are challenging to those around them. The behaviours may be directed toward others, or toward themselves and can be highly distressing for the individual, carers, and those around them. Behaviours are most distressing and challenging when they cause harmContinue reading “Challenging Behaviour – Functional Behavioural Assessment”

Employing focussing strategies can help students maximise their study time and remember more information. If an environment is less distracting, students are more likely to be able to manipulate information in their mind. In turn, students will be better able to remember the information over time. Furthermore, if students employ strategies to self-monitor how distractedContinue reading “Study Habits – PATS”

For some people on the spectrum, daily living skills may be more difficult to learn than for normally developing individuals their age. To teach a skill that has not yet developed, caregivers should be able to help the individual break the skill down into multiple steps. By breaking the task down into each step, caregiversContinue reading “Autism – Teaching Daily Living Skills”