You and your mind are important.
Our Mission
Brave Minds Blossom is a counselling service offering flexible and affordable sessions personalised to meet you where you are and to meet your unique and individual needs.
Our purpose is to empower you to bravely face and look after your mental health and to equip you with skills and strategies to develop healthy minds. Our passion is to encourage and journey with you in learning, growing, and blossoming into all you are uniquely and wonderfully created to be.
Meet your Counsellor
Melissa Johnman
Dip.Couns. (M.A.C.A (Level 2)) and Ba Psychology (Hons)
Melissa grew up in Queensland, Australia and completed her studies on the Gold Coast. Melissa has years of experience working with children and youth in residential youth care and schools, as well as most recently working with adults providing therapy care from a cognitive behavioural therapy scope overseas in Canada.
Melissa is passionate about educating people about mental health and the brain, helping others’ develop healthy strategies to navigate through life, and listen to individuals’ stories that have shaped them thus far.
Melissa strives to hold sessions that allow for you to authentically come as you are, where you are, and to meet you there to help you on your journey. Melissa’s ultimate heart is to see all individuals learn, be equipped and grow; flourishing in all aspects of their life.
Our Story
Brave can be defined as to endure or face unpleasant conditions or behaviours without showing fear; showing courage. Anyone who faces their mental health and delves into unpacking their mind and looking beneath surface level actions into what triggers and drives their behaviours displays a great courage and bravery - it is often no easy feat to explore when you do not know what you may find.
Blossom is defined as to produce flowers or masses of flower and often represents a new beginning and growth. Flowers take time to blossom and bloom just as developing a healthy mind takes time and is a life-long growth journey filled with not all steps forward but rather often one step forward, two steps back. Once you take the step to unpack your mind and learn, unlearn, relearn; you discover all the beauty underneath and begin to grow and blossom; moving into a new season of your life.
This is the meaning and heart behind the name Brave Minds Blossom.