Learning with Confidence Free Talk on HSC Stress by Dr Leanne Wall

Dr Leanne Wall MD, BSc., Grad Dip Counselling
Speaker, Educator, Accredited Facilitator, Doctor, Counsellor & Coach.

Leanne has first-hand knowledge of the significant pressures’ families can sometimes face during Year 11 and HSC exam time. Having two children of her own, one in university and one going into Year 12 in 2020, Leanne is fully aware of the stress teenagers can experience, not forgetting, of course, parents too. Parents frequently ask Leanne how they can support their teenagers through exam time and want to understand how they can manage their stress and worry and create a calm and supportive environment for their family.

Leanne is passionate about increasing awareness of the importance of deliberately focusing on our health (mentally, physically and emotionally) and the health of our teenagers. In the end, we all need to take personal responsibility for how we manage our stress, feelings of anxiousness, and how we show up in our family as a parent or teenager.

Leanne focuses on empowering parents with the knowledge, skills and resources to be great role models for managing their stress. She also shows parents how to create a psychologically safe home environment where teenagers feel they can ask for support and comfortable to raise their hands if they are struggling.

Leanne helps parents gain a greater awareness of how they are showing up at home and how stress can be detrimental if not managed. Leanne shares practical strategies to ensure that parents and teenagers can manage the day to day pressures they face at work/school and home.

With authenticity and humour, Leanne uses her medical and counselling background, together with neuroscience and evidence-based research to generate fresh insights into the acute stress response and how this can help and hinder our performance, both in our professional and personal lives.

In thought-provoking presentations and workshops, Leanne explains how our bodies function during short and long-term stress, the importance of being aware of our internal warning system when stress is becoming an issue and knowing when to raise our hand if we are struggling.

Leanne is an Accredited Facilitator for the Resilience@Work Program (Individuals, Teams and Leaders); an Accredited Practitioner of extended DISC Behavioural profiling, an Accredited Facilitator for Tuning in to Teens and Tuning in to Kids parent and carer programs, an Accredited Mental Health First Aider; an Associate Member of the International Coach Guild and a Member of Professional Speakers Australia.