Ready to Yarn
Courage to uncover paths not yet walked
Meet Jonathan McClelland
Jonathan McClelland at Ready to Yarn provides face to face counselling services to Mount Isa and North West Queensland.
As an Accredited Mental Health Social Worker Jonathan provides counselling and therapy services under the Medicare, NDIS, Workcover, Victims of Crime and Police Self-Refer programs. He supports adults, youth and children, families and community groups with a wide range of issues
Services
Jonathan McClelland at Ready to Yarn provides face to face counselling services, NDIS assessment, recommendation, therapy and referral services, clinical supervision and mentoring, training programs and groupwork as well as community development services to the wider Mt Isa region including the Gulf and west to the NT border.
As an Accredited Mental Health Social Worker Jonathan works with Medicare, NDIS and other clients, supporting both adults and youth with a wide range of problems and concerns.
Jonathan is particularly well known across the North-West Queensland area due to his work with remote communities.
Multi-generational and complex trauma
Trauma can affect multiple people and in multiple ways.
It can hit us in our faces at the same time as below the belt.
That’s why trauma therapy needs to start bit by bit, with care.
EMDR
When trauma ‘hits’ us, it can be very hard to get back to normal.
“Eye Movement Desensitisation and Reprocessing” is a therapy that helps bypass the blockages the brain sets up after trauma, and it takes the ‘heat’ out of those difficult memories.
EMDR is a highly evidence-based treatment for trauma and other mental health issues, and Jonathan has graduated from three levels of training at the EMDR Institute Australia.
In Jonathan’s work in Aboriginal communities, he’s been a guest.
His learning as a counsellor has come from the generosity of those who’ve invited him in.
‘Yarning’ was what has grandparents did, but it is also a gift that was taught to him, on country.
Narrative therapy, CBT and others
Jonathan has a wide range of training and is experienced in Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT), Dialectical Behavioural Therapy (DBT), Acceptance Commitment Therapy (ACT) and a Masters degree in Narrative Therapy.
This didn’t happen by accident – a wide range of skills in your ‘backpack’ really does help, maybe because we humans are such individuals.
A whole range of problems and concerns
Sometimes you just need to talk to somebody who ‘gets it’.
Jonathan’s been working for 20 odd years with people about problems like anxiety, depression, domestic and Family violence, alcohol and other drugs issues, trauma issues, ADHD and ASD.
He ‘gets it’ and he has tools to help.
Telehealth services
As the pandemic taught us, being flexible can make a huge difference. Ready to Yarn has learnt how to sustain effective conversations over the internet – whether it be by phone or Zoom, your connection with your counsellor is always first and foremost.
