Therapeutic Interventions offered at Gymea Lily Psychotherapy Centre
The treatments available include individual psychotherapy: Psychoanalytic and Psychodynamic Psychotherapy, Group therapy: Group Analytic Psychotherapy. Infant mental health and Perinatal sessions for 0-3 year old and their parents, using techniques such as Wait Watch and Wonder, parent-infant psychotherapy and Circle of Security frameworks, working always via an attachment system lens.
We also offer play therapy for children and adolescents, as well as family and marital sessions.
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If you need help with bullying at work we have a number of therapists available who work with this presentation.
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Live: Culture in Australia's largest police force 'unacceptable'
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Bullying, discrimination and sexual harassment are occurring at "unacceptable levels" within the NSW Police Force and employees are too afraid to speak up, an independent report has found.1 day ago
Patterns can be changed but you have to commit to more than 10 sessions of therapy. You have to invest in yourself and your relationships. One way to do this in a more affordable way is to join our Psychotherapy group (2 places left...)
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The goal in education should not be to enforce attendance through fear or consequences, but to remove barriers and create conditions where students feel supported, safe, and able to engage in their education.![]()
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Avoidant attachment is harder to recognize than anxious attachment, partly because the behaviors that come with it tend to look healthy on the surface. Independence. Emotional self-sufficiency. Not needing too much from people. It takes a specific kind of honesty to look underneath those and see what's actually driving them.![]()
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Pulling away when things got close. Not because closeness wasn't wanted, but because it triggered something. A fear of being consumed, of losing yourself, of being trapped. The withdrawal felt like self-preservation. From the outside it looked like not caring.![]()
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Calling it independence when it was really fear of vulnerability. There's a meaningful difference between genuine autonomy, which coexists with closeness, and distance that's maintained to avoid the risk of being truly known.![]()
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Shutting down instead of speaking up. Going quiet, becoming unavailable, letting the conversation end by attrition. It feels like choosing not to escalate. What it actually does is leave things unresolved and the other person feeling abandoned.![]()
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Choosing partners who weren't fully available. Someone with their own walls was safer. Less chance of real intimacy, less chance of real loss.![]()
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And confusing self-protection with self-respect. Keeping people out isn't self-respect. It's self-protection. They feel similar. They lead to very different places.![]()
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Recognizing avoidant patterns in yourself isn't an indictment. It's the beginning of being able to choose something different.![]()
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Babies DO remember! Please treat our little people how you would like to be treated.![]()
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