Michael E. Bernard, PhD
We help people overcome emotional and mental health challenges and live fulfilled, thriving lives. Through practical programs, workshops, and books, we show how thinking more constructively shapes feelings, actions leading to personal and professional success and wellbeing.
AHA! Moments is like a psychologist and a cartoonist walked into a bar—and decided to save your sanity. Dr Michael Bernard serves up sharp, science-backed wisdom in bite-sized portions, while Helen James' illustrations deliver the punchlines (and the insights) with flair. It's funny, it's wise, and it might just change how you think—about everything from stress to self-talk. Keep it on your desk, your bedside, or anywhere life gets a little bumpy.
Latest Release
New Illustrated Self-Help Book for Everyone!
AHA! Moments is a unique self-help book for adults because of the way it communicates powerful ideas for personal development through text and illustrations. Readers will be empowered to build confidence, better navigate stress and move forward and thrive.
Written by Michael E. Bernard, PhD — professor, internationally recognised thought leader, author/editor of over 50 books and founder of You Can Do It! Education.
Stands out from traditional, text-heavy self-help books. Each page pairs a powerful, thought-provoking idea with a striking illustration by Helen James.
At the heart of this book are ‘AHA! moments’ — powerful insights designed to transform self-limiting thoughts, unhelpful emotional reactions and self-defeating behaviours in the face of everyday stress. The reader will meet Sunny, a character navigating life’s highs and lows who helps make AHA! Moments clear and relatable.
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BOOK LAUNCH INVITATION
Launched by Dr Michael Carr-Gregg
Q&A Session with authors
Tuesday 2 December 2025 (5:30 – 7:00 pm)
Windsor Hotel (Canberra Room), 111 Spring Street, Melbourne
Light refreshments served
RSVP: enquiries@thebernardgroup.com.au
Mental Health Practitioner Training
We offer on-line and in-person training workshops in the use of Rational-Emotive, Cognitive-Behavior Therapy (REBT) with school-age children.
These workshops are presented by Michael Bernard, Ph.D., an international leader in the application of REBT with children and adolescents experiencing anxiety, depression, anger, procrastination and under-achievement.
As a fellow and approved training supervisor of the Albert Ellis Institute and founder of the Australian Institute for Rational Emotive Therapy, Michael has trained over 1,000 psychologists, counsellors, social workers and chaplains in REBT.
He has authored and edited over 10 books on REBT and many book chapters. For many years he worked with Albert Ellis, founder of REBT.
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The High Performance Mindset
Michael Bernard’s book is based on his many years of consulting and coaching at sporting clubs (Michael was the first sport psychologist for Collingwood Football Club), financial organisations (AMP), schools (Founder, You Can Do It! Education) and with many, many parents, teachers and students.
Michael reveals what has been learnt about how people operate at their best and why and when they do not.
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