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Neha Dave Psychology

How I Can Help

01. When your mind won't rest

You lie down at night and your brain clocks in for the late shift. The to-do list, the thing you said wrong in 2019, the email you haven't sent — all of it, on loop. Anxiety isn't always dramatic. Sometimes it's just a low hum that never switches off, and one day you notice you can't remember the last time your shoulders weren't up around your ears. We work on understanding what your nervous system is trying to tell you, and building a life where rest doesn't feel like something you have to earn.

02. When everything feels flat

This one's quieter. Not always sadness — sometimes it's just... nothing. The things that used to feel like you — your people, your hobbies, your own reflection — start to feel like they belong to someone else. You're still showing up, still functioning, and that's exactly what makes it so easy to miss. We start by naming what's going on underneath the flatness and slowly find our way back to the parts of you that got put on mute.

03. The Middle Years

Nobody warns you about this decade. Your body's changing, your identity's shifting, and somehow, you've become the emotional infrastructure for an entire household while also wondering who you'd be without all of it. Hormones, invisible labour, the quiet grief of versions of yourself you've outgrown — it's a lot to carry alone, and you don't have to. This is where we figure out who you're becoming, not just who you used to be.

04. Raising Teenagers

One day they told you everything. Now you get one-word answers and a closed bedroom door, and you're left guessing whether that's normal teenage weather or something you should be worried about. You want to stay close without hovering, to hold boundaries without losing connection, and to not take the eye-rolls quite so personally (even though, let's be honest, they land). We work on staying in the room — even when they're doing everything they can to push you out of it.

05. Caring For Ageing Parents

You're the one who remembers the specialist appointments, manages the medications, and fields the 9pm phone calls — all while running your own household and, quite possibly, still raising your own teenagers. The sandwich generation squeeze is real, and it comes with a specific cocktail of guilt, grief and exhaustion that's hard to explain to anyone who isn't living it. We make space for all of it — the love and the resentment, the grief that starts before the loss does.

06. Big Feelings

The snap you didn't mean. The tears that came out of nowhere over something small. The moment you caught yourself reacting like someone you don't recognise, and then spent the rest of the day quietly ashamed of it. Big feelings aren't a character flaw — they're information, usually about something that's been unspoken for far too long. We work on understanding your triggers, widening the gap between feeling and reacting, and helping you meet yourself with a bit more compassion when it happens again.

Where I Practice

Point Cook

C5 Level 1, 2 Main Street, Point Cook VIC 3030

Armstrong Creek Doctors

Level 1/500/540 Surf Coast Hwy, Armstrong Creek VIC 3217

Trinity Family Medical Centre

49 Clifton Springs Road, Drysdale VIC 3222

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Registered Psychologist in Point Cook, Torquay, Armstrong Creek Drysdale and Melbourne Area

Tel: +61 439 44 30 55 | neha@nehadave.com

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