Suicide Prevention Work


These articles are written for those who work in Crisis Support (aka Suicide Prevention / Counseling). All opinions belong only to the author and are not representative of Lifeline, Beyond Blue, The Good Samaritans or any other organisation.

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Don’t Change Who You Are, Just Stay Between the Flags

Are We Aligned?

Trust As Currency

Non-Judgement FAQ

Attending to both Feelings and Safety

Offering the Five Senses Grounding Technique

Contextualising the Five Senses Grounding Technique

Sentence Stems to Invite More Information

Sentence Stems for Asking About Suicide

Edit Less, Impact More – Sentence Stem Workshopping Exercise

How To Finally Stop Asking ‘Why’ To People In Crisis

How To Write With Life Saving Clarity In Digital Crisis Support

How Reflective Practice Improved My Suicide Prevention Skills

How to Break Minimal Encourager Misery

Abstraction In Suicide Prevention

To do list:

Stop Relying on ‘Overwhelm’

Empathic Blocks

Maintaining Your Positioning in Mental Health Work

Polly Anna Positivity Isn’t Helping

Deflecting Questions

When in Doubt Normalise or Validate

Self Awareness in Crisis Support

Compassion Satisfaction

Misalignment of Needs

Never Validate the Choice to Suicide, Always Validate the Feelings to Suicide