Still awake at 2am, running the case again?
You are not doing it on purpose. 15 to 20 minutes of guided audio a day, and nothing to talk through.
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In short
- A Cognitive Pattern Reprogramming program from Mindshift Mentors, available to DCJ staff.
- 15 to 20 minutes of guided audio a day, recorded by Rob Edmonds.
- It is designed to help you notice and interrupt the thinking patterns that keep running after the shift ends.
- Nothing to disclose. Nobody to sit across from.
- Not clinical treatment. It does not replace your doctor, your EAP or your counsellor.
Guided audio you listen to. Nothing to practise, nothing to write down.
15 to 20 minutes, once a day. In bed, on a break, or in a parked car before you go inside. Never while driving.
Twelve sessions in this program, 50 plus across the whole library.
Rob Edmonds, who holds a Diploma of Clinical Hypnosis and Strategic Psychotherapy.
Daily listening, with no fixed end date. The sessions are designed to be replayed, and there is no fixed timeframe.
One session free for seven nights, no credit card. Nothing reported back to DCJ.
Before you start, three things
- This is not a crisis service. If you are in immediate danger, having thoughts of suicide or self-harm, or worried about the safety of someone else, contact 000 now, or Lifeline on 13 11 14. Your DCJ EAP is confidential and available to you.
- Never listen while driving. Do not listen to Cognitive Pattern Reprogramming, hypnosis or guided relaxation audio while driving a vehicle, operating machinery, or doing anything else that needs your full attention. If you are listening in a vehicle, it must be safely parked.
- It does not replace professional care. The Mindshift Method and Cognitive Pattern Reprogramming provide self-guided wellbeing and behavioural change support using guided audio and pattern-focused techniques. They can complement professional care, but they are not a replacement for medical, psychological or psychiatric treatment.
It was never one bad day. It is the build-up.
Nobody walks out of a shift like yours unchanged. It does not arrive as a breakdown. It arrives as a shorter fuse, a worse sleep, and a version of yourself you do not quite recognise.
Most people recognise five or six of those rather than one. None of it is weakness and none of it means you are bad at the job. It is a familiar pattern for people who have stayed alert for years without a clear signal that the shift has ended. Finding that signal is what these sessions are designed to help with.
You have almost certainly tried some of this already
None of that is a failure of willpower. These sessions focus on the patterns themselves, the ones that tend to run before you have had a chance to think about them. Keep your EAP, keep your counsellor, keep your GP. This is designed to sit alongside them, not replace any of it.
How Cognitive Pattern Reprogramming works
Guided audio, built around noticing the patterns that tend to run on repeat, and practising a different response to the ones that are not helping.
Diploma of Clinical Hypnosis and Strategic Psychotherapy
Built for people who have no appetite for going back through it. There is nothing to disclose, nothing to work out, and nobody sitting across from you.
Nothing to analyse
No talking it through and no working it out. Each session is designed to help you notice the response that starts the spin, rather than argue with it.
Nothing gets relived
You are not asked to go back over past events or describe how any of it felt. There is nothing to recount, which for most frontline people is the reason they are willing to start at all.
Nothing to practise in the daytime
Drawn from strategic psychotherapy and behavioural science. You listen lying down with headphones on, which is the only version of this that survives a roster.
It runs on repetition, not effort
It is designed to be listened to regularly and replayed. What anyone notices, and when, varies from person to person.
The Mindshift Method and Cognitive Pattern Reprogramming provide self-guided wellbeing and behavioural change support using guided audio and pattern-focused techniques. They can complement professional care, but they are not a replacement for medical, psychological or psychiatric treatment. If you are dealing with a diagnosed condition, please keep working with your health professional.
The man whose voice you will be listening to
Rob was nineteen and could not speak in front of a room. Not nervous, genuinely unable, and it was starting to cost him exams. He tried hypnotherapy because he had run out of other ideas, and a few sessions sorted it. It worked in a way that annoyed him slightly, because it should not have been that straightforward. That quietly shaped everything after it.
His focus is the pattern, not the person. The thinking behind the work is simple enough: a way of responding that was learned can usually be practised differently. He still sees clients one to one, and he creates every session in the library.
Read more about Rob
- Business consultancy and finance first, where he watched capable people get held back by mindset far more often than by ability.
- Then he went and did it properly. Trained at the Institute of Applied Psychology in Sydney, earning his Diploma of Clinical Hypnosis and Strategic Psychotherapy alongside qualifications in Clinical Hypnosis, Strategic Psychotherapy and Neurolinguistic Programming.
- A member of the Australian Society of Clinical Hypnotherapists and of the International Strategic Psychotherapists Association.
- Out of that came Cognitive Pattern Reprogramming, the method behind everything Mindshift Mentors does. Short and practical rather than open ended, and it focuses on the response running now instead of going back through what caused it.
- Stress, sleep, difficult emotional responses, habits and focus. Different pathways, the same pattern-based approach.
Rob EdmondsCo-Founder
Give yourself the ten minutes
Listen to the complete 10 minute Calm Reset, recorded by Rob. Free, with nothing to sign up for.
Do not listen while driving or operating machinery. Best with headphones, sitting or lying somewhere you will not be interrupted. If you drift off, that is fine.
That was the whole session. Twelve more like it are waiting, and the first seven nights cost nothing.
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Three steps, and none of them involve booking anything
No appointments. No waiting lists. No forms. No sitting across from anyone. You press play and listen for 15 to 20 minutes.
Press play
Open the app in bed, on a break, or in a parked car before you walk inside. Never while you are driving. That is the whole commitment.
Let it settle
Rob talks you through it. You stay aware and in control the whole way, and there is nothing to do except listen.
Keep it going
Consistency is what the program is built around. What people notice, and when, varies from person to person.
Why it does not switch off just because the shift ended
Plain language, not a diagnosis. If any of this sounds like you, it is worth raising with your GP or EAP as well.
Staying switched on was the job
Running alert is not a fault. In your role it keeps you sharp. The problem is nobody ever showed you where the off switch is.
The build-up is quiet
Not one bad day. Years of exposure with no single moment to point at. No incident to name, which is why it goes unspoken for so long.
The night is when it turns up
All day there is somewhere to put your attention. The room goes quiet and the mind goes back to the unfinished business. That is why 2am.
Sleeping the hours is not always recovering
Plenty of people get the hours in and still wake flat. If you are still running warm at night, a weekend does not always touch it.
Caring less is not the same as not caring
Compassion fatigue reads like a character failure. It is capacity. A lot going out, not much coming back in, and the feeling turns down.
It comes out at home because home is safe
You hold it together all day for clients, colleagues and courts. The people closest to you are the only ones you are not performing for.
How the Mindshift Method fits
The Mindshift Method app is designed to be used alongside appropriate medical, psychological or therapeutic care where required, not instead of it.
Which of These Sounds Most Like What You’re Experiencing?
These are descriptions in plain language, not diagnoses. Only a health professional can tell you what you are dealing with. They are here because putting a name to it makes it easier to talk about.
Cumulative exposure
No single incident to point at, just years of it. It shows up as intrusive thoughts, a case that surfaces at odd moments, or a face you cannot unsee.
Cannot switch off
You stay switched on at home. Calm on the outside, running hot underneath, and unable to properly rest even with nothing to do.
Broken or unrefreshing sleep
Either you cannot get under because the mind is still going, or the roster and the callouts fragment it, or you sleep the hours and wake flat anyway.
Emotional exhaustion and compassion fatigue
Feeling numb or detached as a way of coping. Caring less than you did, and carrying guilt about that. Present at work but checked out.
Bringing it home
A short fuse with the people you love, then lying awake regretting it. Bottling it so it does not touch them, and watching it leak out sideways anyway.
Trauma symptoms
Nightmares, flashbacks, a startle response, or avoiding certain places, files or conversations. This is a different order of thing to feeling worn down.
Important safety information
Mindshift Mentors is not a crisis service. If you are experiencing a mental health crisis, having thoughts of suicide or self-harm, or you are worried about your own safety or someone else's, please get help now rather than working through this on your own. Call 000 in an emergency, or Lifeline on 13 11 14. Your DCJ EAP is confidential and available to you as an employee.
Do not listen while driving. Do not listen to Cognitive Pattern Reprogramming, hypnosis or guided relaxation audio sessions while driving a vehicle, operating machinery, or undertaking any activity that requires your full attention. If listening in a vehicle, the vehicle must be safely parked.
This is not a substitute for professional care. The Mindshift Method and Cognitive Pattern Reprogramming provide self-guided wellbeing and behavioural change support using guided audio and pattern-focused techniques. They can complement professional care, but they are not a replacement for medical, psychological or psychiatric treatment, and they are not treatment for PTSD, complex trauma or any diagnosed psychological or psychiatric condition. If you are experiencing significant trauma symptoms, please seek support from a suitably qualified health professional. If you are already working with one, keep doing that.
If you are in immediate danger or at risk of harming yourself, contact emergency services immediately.
Australia: Lifeline 13 11 14 | Emergency 000
USA: 988 Suicide & Crisis Lifeline | Emergency 911
UK: Samaritans 116 123 | Emergency 999
12 Sessions to Start With
Your membership also includes access to the complete Mindshift library. Use one session a day, or work through them in order. Your trial unlocks the first one for 7 nights.
Reduce Stress & Anxiety in the Workplace
Designed to help you steady your responses under pressure and protect your headspace through the working day.
Calm the Overthinking Mind
Designed to help you slow the mental spin and make some space between you and the loop that starts when you stop moving.
Stress Reset & Deep Regulation
A longer session designed to support relaxation and settle mental overactivity after a heavy shift.
Safe to Relax Again
For when switching off feels strangely unsafe, because staying alert has kept you sharp for years.
Stop Replaying the Conversation
Designed to help you interrupt the mental rerun, so one moment stops costing you a whole evening.
The Pressure Reset Protocol
A go-to session for the days when the caseload, the calls and the risk all land at once.
Stress Reset for High Performers
For staying sharp and capable without the wired, can't-switch-off feeling running underneath it.
Quiet the Racing Mind
Designed to help settle the thoughts that arrive the second your head hits the pillow.
Clear the Overwhelm
Designed to help you untangle the mental clutter when everything feels urgent and nothing feels finished.
The Space Between Pressure and Choice
Practising the pause that lets you respond on purpose instead of reacting on autopilot.
Stop the Spiral & Regain Control
Designed to help you catch a downward spiral early and steer back toward steadier ground.
10-Minute Calm Reset
A short one for when you have only got ten minutes and you really need them.
One membership. Every pathway.
One session free for 7 nights, no credit card. Then the whole library opens.
DCJ Wellbeing Support FAQs
Yes. Your account is yours alone. Nobody at DCJ sees whether you use it, what you listen to, or how often. There is no reporting back to your workplace and nothing appears on any file.
No. Mindshift Mentors is an independent provider and this is our program, made available to DCJ staff. It is not a Department of Communities and Justice service, and nothing on this page should be read as DCJ endorsement, recommendation or clinical approval.
No. Never listen to a Cognitive Pattern Reprogramming, hypnosis or guided relaxation session while driving a vehicle, operating machinery, or doing anything else that requires your full attention. If you are listening in a vehicle, it must be safely parked.
No. There is nothing to disclose, no forms, no debrief and no session with a person. You put your headphones on and listen. The whole method is designed to work without you having to relive or retell anything.
You get one full session, Reduce Stress & Anxiety in the Workplace, unlocked free for 7 nights. No credit card is needed to start. If you want the rest of the library after that, it is $29.95 per month or $299 per year AUD, and you can cancel anytime.
Sessions run 15 to 20 minutes. Most people use them in bed, on a break, or in a parked car before walking inside. There is nothing to book and nothing to schedule, which is the point.
There is no set answer, and anyone offering you a number is guessing. The sessions are designed to be listened to regularly and replayed, and there is no fixed timeframe. What people notice, and when, varies a lot from person to person, and we make no promise about either. Consistency is what the program is built around.
No. These sessions are self-guided wellbeing support and they are not treatment for PTSD, complex trauma, trauma-related disorders or any diagnosed psychological or psychiatric condition. If you are experiencing significant trauma symptoms, please seek support from a suitably qualified health professional. The sessions may sit alongside that care, but they do not replace it.
Yes, and we would encourage it. These sessions are self-guided wellbeing support, not a substitute for professional care. They are designed to sit alongside EAP, counselling, your GP or any treatment you are already receiving. If you are dealing with a diagnosed condition, please keep working with your health professional.
No. You stay aware and in control throughout. Many people do feel deeply relaxed, and if you are listening in bed, drifting off is perfectly fine.
Yes. A membership is one login, so if your partner wants to use the sleep or stress sessions they can share the same account.
You have spent years looking after everyone else.
If it is the racing, replaying mind you recognise, this is built for that. Seven nights, one session, nothing to pay and nobody to tell.
Start your 7 night free trial →One session free for seven nights · no credit card · $29.95/month or $299/year after that
Mindshift Mentors provides self-guided wellbeing audio programs. They are not clinical treatment and are not a substitute for medical, psychological or psychiatric care, and they are not treatment for PTSD, complex trauma or any diagnosed condition. If you are dealing with a diagnosed condition, please continue working with your health professional. Do not listen to these sessions while driving, operating machinery or doing anything else that requires your full attention. If listening in a vehicle, the vehicle must be safely parked. Mindshift Mentors is an independent provider and is not a Department of Communities and Justice service. Mindshift Mentors is not a crisis service. In an emergency call 000. Lifeline 13 11 14.