Kym Mc Minn - Managing Director

What if addiction isn’t the problem - but the coping strategy? Not a good solution. Not a safe one. But a solution nonetheless. What is this doing for the person? • a way to cope • a way to regulate • a way to survive Remove it without understanding why, that’s where things unravel. I was sitting by a local lake recently while someone I support went for a swim. We’re pretty spoilt with choices of beautiful spots like this in regional Vic 👌 For them, swimming in fresh water is therapeutic....

International Women’s Day 2026 #BalanceTheScales   #GiveToGain Last week I had the privilege of sitting on a panel of extraordinary women at the Leading Ladies Club  IWD event 🙌 Real and raw accounts of running businesses. The good. The hard. The slightly chaotic lives of us. Strong women. Women who’ve broken glass ceilings. Women whose voices already carry in rooms. Nicole Makin-Doherty   Belinda Toohey   Sarah Heriot And that matters. But this IWD, what I want to hear loud and clear? The...

Consistency is the intervention. And I didn’t learn that from a text book. I learned it from sitting in hospital corridors. From fighting for beds that didn’t exist. From watching services step in - and then quietly step away when things got messy. I learned it as a Mum. And I still see it every day working in this space. We talk about relapse like it only belongs to addiction. It doesn’t. Relapse is psychosis returning. Relapse is depression swallowing someone whole again. Relapse is...