Anxiety and depression are the cause of six million lost working days each year in Australia, resulting in 12 million days worth of reduced productivity, according to the Mental Health Foundation Australia (MHFA).

Furthermore, one in four Australians will experience an anxiety disorder at some point in their lives and most people do not know how to approach someone they deem in mental distress and would rather walk away than doing the “wrong thing” or just simply fear to approach this person as they might think he/she is a weirdo or they might even become aggressive.

It is time to take the stigma off mental health and treat it equally to any illness we respond to. Just because we cannot physically see it doesn’t mean it doesn’t exist.

Learning Mental Health First Aid is about potentially saving lives, just like physical First Aid. And just like you would know how to deal with a sprained ankle, because you remember what you learned in your First Aid Training, you can learn how to support someone with a mental illness. Learning MHFA isn’t difficult and it empowers you to know that and how you can help.

The course is run over 12 hours and can be split into 2 consecutive days, 1 day a week over 2 weeks or 4 3-hour-sessions over 4 days. In order to become and acrredited… Mental Health First Aider all 12 hours of training must be attended.

As an accredited Mental Health First Aid trainer I facilitate Mental Health First Aid training in house for companies, NGOs, sports clubs, High schools as well as for people in the community.

For any further information please give me a call on 0452180759 or send me an email to [email protected]

BLENDED ONLINE MHFA  NEXT TRAINING: 23rd & 24th of June from 9.30 – 12.00pm for the zoom training

100% online in a blended format. Total cost is $205.00 per participant which also includes your manual.

  • Course Component 1 – A self-paced eLearning component (takes 5-7 hours to complete)
  • Course Component 2 – An Instructor-led component using video conferencing (2 sessions of 2.5 hours each).

BLENDED ONLINE YOUTH MHFA TRAINING July 7th & 8th,  9.30 – 1.00 for the zoom training

for teachers, parents, carers, sports coaches etc. Understand the person you look after better and know how to have a conversation when you feel something is not right. 100% online

  • Course Component 1 – A self-paced eLearning component (takes 6-8 hours to complete)
  • Course Component 2 – An Instructor-led component using video conferencing (2 sessions of 3.5 hours each).

What People say about MHFA training

Barbara was very relaxed, approachable, empathetic and engaging.
No question was a problem and Barbara would find out the answer if she was unsure.

Barbara was great in her presentation and knowledge and her own experiences were very relevant.

Great presentation, encouraging of group discussion, really appreciated
her real world knowledge as it helped to understand challenging concepts.

I thought Barbara was very approachable – light when she needed to be and had boundaries when those were needed. She covered all the material necessary and was honest if she didn’t know the answer -and always came back with the answer the following week. She was a great facilitator and made everyone feel at ease throughout.

Excellent course and instructor. Thank you

Barbara is outstanding. I myself suffered some problems in the past and I can feel the
urge of barbara wanting to share and to help people like me.and for me to share it with people