Still awake at 2am, running the case again?
You are not doing it on purpose. About 20 minutes of guided audio a day, and nothing to talk through. Available to you through the DCJ wellbeing toolkit.
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In short
- A Cognitive Pattern Reprogramming program, offered to DCJ staff through the mental health and wellbeing toolkit.
- About 20 minutes of guided audio a day, recorded by Rob Edmonds, Strategic Psychotherapist.
- It helps with the stress response that stays switched on after the shift ends, not the thoughts themselves.
- 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.
About 20 minutes, once a day. In bed, in the car, on a break.
Twelve sessions in this program, 50 plus across the whole library.
Rob Edmonds, Strategic Psychotherapist and Clinical Hypnotherapist.
21 days of daily listening is the usual mark. Some notice sooner.
One session free for seven nights, no credit card. Nothing reported back to DCJ.
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 what happens to a nervous system that has stayed switched on for years without a clear signal that the shift has ended. That signal is what these sessions help you find.
"I'd carried it for years. This is the first thing that shifted it."
Damian spent decades inside the justice system. Same environment, same exposure, same habit of taking it home and saying nothing. He'll tell you he didn't think there was a problem, right up until his family started noticing one.
He talks about what the build-up actually did to his sleep and his temper, and what changed once he started listening. If you have already decided nothing works for people like us, watch his first.
One member's experience. Results vary from person to person.
You have almost certainly tried some of this already
Willpower was never the missing piece. The pattern sits below conscious thought, which is exactly where these sessions work. 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
Traditional therapy tends to work on the story. These sessions help with what sits underneath it, where automatic responses sit rather than where you think about them.
Strategic Psychotherapist & Clinical Hypnotherapist
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.
It skips the conscious chatter
No analysing and no talking it through. The session goes straight to the automatic response that starts the spin, rather than to your opinion about the spin.
Nothing gets relived
You are not asked to go back over past events or reboot how any of it felt. There is nothing to recount, which for most frontline people is the whole reason they will actually start.
Nothing to practise in the daytime
Strategic psychotherapy and behavioural science combined. All of it happens while you are lying down with headphones on, which is the only version of this that survives a roster.
It runs on repetition, not effort
Around 21 days of daily listening is where a new pattern tends to settle. Some people notice something sooner. It depends on the person, so there are no guarantees on timing.
Cognitive Pattern Reprogramming is a self-help support tool. It is designed to work alongside EAP, counselling, your GP or any treatment you are already receiving, not in place of it. 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.
He helps shift the patterns, not the person. If you can learn an unhelpful behaviour, you can unlearn it. He still sees clients one to one, and every session in the library is written and voiced by him.
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.
- Accredited practitioner LIC#110226, an ASCH member and ISPA accredited.
- Out of that came Cognitive Pattern Reprogramming, the method behind everything MindShift Mentors does. Short and practical rather than open ended, and it helps shift 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 and Strategic Psychotherapist
Give yourself the ten minutes
Listen to the complete 10 minute Calm Reset, recorded by Rob. Free, with nothing to sign up for.
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.
Start your 7 night free trial →One session free for seven nights · No credit card · 30 days from your first payment to change your mind
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, and the rest happens on its own.
Press play
Open the app in bed, in the car before you walk inside, or on a break. That is the whole commitment.
Let it settle
Rob's voice guides your mind past the conscious chatter to where the stress patterns actually sit. You do not have to do a thing.
Notice the shift
Consistency is what makes the difference. 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 recovering
Plenty of people get the hours in and still wake flat. If the system runs warm all night, a weekend will not 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 can be used alongside appropriate medical, psychological or therapeutic care where required.
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
The nervous system stays 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 brain is still processing, 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.
If things are worse than tired
If you are having thoughts of harming yourself, or you feel unable to keep yourself safe, please do not work through this on your own. Lifeline is 13 11 14 and 000 is there in an emergency. Your EAP is confidential and available to you as a DCJ employee.
This program is a self-help support tool and it is not a substitute for professional care, crisis support or treatment for a diagnosed condition. If you are working with a health professional, keep doing that. These sessions are designed to sit alongside that care.
"The constant anxiety, the overwhelm, the pressure to control everything, it is all softened. I feel calmer and more grounded, and I am finally free to breathe again."
Best sleep in years
"Rob’s hypnotherapy actually worked! I now fall asleep faster, stay asleep longer, and wake up refreshed."
A nightly routine that works
"As a nurse and a mum I needed to switch off at the end of the day. These recordings help me relax and sleep deeply."
Truly grateful
"Rob's advice truly changed my life. Do what feels right so you can rest peacefully at night without worries."
Individual experiences. Results vary from person to person.
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
Steady your responses under pressure and protect your headspace through the working day.
Calm the Overthinking Mind
Slow the mental spin and create space between you and the loop that starts when you stop moving.
Stress Reset & Deep Regulation
Bring an overloaded nervous system back toward baseline 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
Let go of the mental rerun so one moment stops costing you a whole evening.
The Pressure Reset Protocol
A go-to reset for the days when the caseload, the calls and the risk all land at once.
Stress Reset for High Performers
Stay sharp and capable without the wired, can't-switch-off feeling running underneath it.
Quiet the Racing Mind
Turn down the volume on the thoughts that arrive the second your head hits the pillow.
Clear the Overwhelm
Untangle the mental clutter when everything feels urgent and nothing feels finished.
The Space Between Pressure and Choice
Find the pause that lets you respond on purpose instead of reacting on autopilot.
Stop the Spiral & Regain Control
Catch the downward spiral early and steer back to steady ground.
10-Minute Calm Reset
A short reset for when you have only got the walk to the car, but you really need one.
One subscription. 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. 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, you can cancel anytime, and you are covered by a 30-day money-back guarantee from your first payment.
Sessions run 15 to 20 minutes. Most people use them in bed, in the car before walking inside, or on a break. There is nothing to book and nothing to schedule, which is the point.
We cannot tell you, and anyone offering a number is guessing. The program is built around 21 days of daily listening. What people notice, and when, varies a lot, and we make no promise about either. Consistency is what makes the difference.
Yes, and we would encourage it. These sessions are a self-help support tool, 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.
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MindShift Mentors provides self-help audio programs. They are not clinical treatment and are not a substitute for medical, psychological or psychiatric care. If you are dealing with a diagnosed condition, please continue working with your health professional. In an emergency call 000. Lifeline 13 11 14.