Helping you help yourself.
Practical mental health tools for real life.
I'm Jess Kolbe, an Australian counsellor and the creator of The Fundamentals. I take complicated mental health concepts and turn them into practical tools that make sense — and that you can actually use when life gets hard.
I believe everyone has the fundamental right to be mentally healthy. Through my podcast and online courses, I want to help you help yourself.
Introducing the Fundamentals
Listen to The Fundamentals Podcast
Introducing The Fundamentals Podcast, which was created as a free resource to help you help yourself. In this series, you will discover common-sense approaches to regulation and the basics for you to master your mental fitness, with help from Author and Counsellor Jess Kolbe.
Explore practical, easy-to-understand online courses designed to help you understand anxiety and what you can actually do when it shows up.
Practical online anxiety courses
“I loved learning about the maintenance side of anxiety, not just managing it in the moment.”
What people are taking away
Feedback from counsellors and participants who have completed Taming Your Anxiety
“I found the structured approach to responding to anxiety really helpful, and feel it will also help me support my daughter.”
“It shifts the focus from controlling anxiety to building self-awareness and self-trust.”
“As a school counsellor, I plan to use this language in psychoeducation with students”
“There were many analogies that created a clear visual that I feel will be easy for adolescents to connect with.”
“Rather than immediately trying to fix anxiety, we can help people understand what their body is telling them”
“I now have even more tools and insight to share with clients”
“A simple, practical way of understanding anxiety that really resonated with me”