The Mind Room - Dr Jo Mitchell

The Mind Room is home to a Melbourne-based community of psychologists, wellbeing and performance specialists, mindfulness facilitators and other friendly, fun and wise people. We believe that growth is possible, connections are essential, creativity is important and acceptance is key.

Dr Jo Mitchell, Clinical Psychologist

Available Monday to Wednesday (currently not taking new clients)

Jo is clinically trained and works with professionals experiencing mental illness, burnout, or struggling to achieve important life goals, find meaning and live well. Jo also has expertise in wellbeing science - including positive psychology, ACT and mindfulness - and completed her PhD in this field. Jo has a passion for re-mixing ideas and connecting people and projects to create collaborations that make positive change. She is MindMax Project Leader for the AFL Players Association on a Movember funded wellbeing and resilience project, and has 20 years experience in the sport industry. She is Science Advisor for Band4Hope and a regular keynote and workshop presenter. Jo hails from Tasmania, via Scotland, is auntie to 9 niblings, and loves taking them on life adventures.

Clinical + counselling psychology

These individual or couple sessions are designed for the assessment, diagnosis and treatment of people with mental health issues (e.g., depression, anxiety, excessive stress or worry) as a result of a mental illness or due to life events (e.g., bereavement, relationship breakdown, job loss, accident, injury, trauma, relocation or retirement).

Coaching + performance psychology

These individual or small group sessions are designed for people wanting to enhance their wellbeing or performance. The focus is usually on key life domains (e.g., career, parenting, career, study, health, sport and leisure). Issues addressed include identifying your values, strengths, passion, meaning in life, motivation, confidence, goal setting and self-management.

Mental conditioning for sports performance

Interested in sports performance? This mental conditioning program helps you or your team understand how to harness your mind and bodies potential to perform at your peak more often.

Core skills include:

Mindful performance: How to focus attention to match the demands of your sporting performance
Resilient performance: How to cope with negative thoughts, emotions & physical stress
Peak performance: How to perform at your peak potential more consistently and more often

Facilitated by Sport & Performance Psychologist Michael Inglis, who has a unique blend of evidence-based knowledge and applied experience working with individual athletes (e.g., cycling, athletics, gymnastics) and teams (e.g., current performance psychologist for AFL North Melbourne Kangaroos; Holden Cycling team). This program can be tailored to your needs and empowers any high performer - athlete, coach, teams - to fulfil their performance potential.

Classes

We love teaching people the latest evidence-based psychology on how to work with your mind and body to enhance wellbeing and performance in life. These classes and workshops (1hr to half day to 6-weeks) are practical, inspiring and playful small group (4-12 people) experiences. Classes include:

• Urban Mindfulness


• Self-compassion


• Happiness Science


• Peak Performance (sport & performing arts versions)

We offer 1-hour drop-in classes and 4- to 6-week programs, as well as half- or full-day workshops. Come try a class in our relaxed, studio warehouse in Collingwood.

Bespoke presentations

On request, our skilled presenters can provide tailored workshops or presentations on a range of mental health, wellbeing and performance psychology topics. Some of the topics we have presented on recently include:

• From surviving to thriving: Lessons from positive psychology - the science of individual, organisational and community wellbeing.


• Urban mindfulness: How mindfulness relates to health, wellbeing and performance, and practical ways to integrate it into modern life.


• World wide wellbeing: How wellbeing science and mobile technology are combining to spread happiness across the globe.

Corporate + community wellbeing

The Mind Room team can help you develop, implement and assess tailored, sustainable wellbeing frameworks and programs in your organisation or community. We have expertise in:

• Wellbeing assessment


• Curriculum and program development


• Research and program evaluation