Attachment-based Counselling in Crows Nest, NSW
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Calm Mind Psychology
Psychologist, PsyBA General
Verified
Verified
Life can be a constant effort to keep a hold on things and I want to help you sort this out with my decades of experience, knowledge spanning many areas, and deep empathy for your struggle. Not all clients and therapists are the right fit, so please review my calmmindpsychology youtube channel to see if we resonate. I am both a psychotherapist and psychologist so I tend to dive deep, but can also help you with current life crises. I work best with people who have already done some therapy and know that personal growth is difficult, sometimes hard, always ongoing but worth it as a way of becoming more authentic and available in life.
Sabina Rabold
Psychotherapist, MA, PACFA
Verified
1 Endorsed
Verified
1 Endorsed
No two people are the same, no two stories identical. Perhaps you are already clear about what you want from therapy, perhaps our starting point is to figure this out. No matter what, all of you is welcome. Together, we aim to: heal old emotional wounds you might still be hurting from, clear up current anxiety, stress confusion or disheartenment that weigh on you; make good decisions for your life and find inner joy, calm and balance to sustain you in a meaningful way of being. When working with couples, I support partners to repair relational injuries, strengthen communication, commitment and trust and deepen love and intimacy.
The Engel Clinic
Psychologist, MAPS
Verified
Verified
Veronica operates the Engel Clinic out of her private office in Crows Nest, where she focuses on treatment for anxiety, stress, disordered eating, and gut disorders. On Thursday's Veronica works at the Children's Health Hub in Westmead, with a team of medical professionals, focused on managing gut-disorders.
Leo Martyn - Crows Nest Counselling
Clinical Social Work/Therapist, AMHSW
Verified
Verified
Leo has been a clinical counsellor in private practice for over 12 years (ACA Level 4) and is an accredited social worker (MAASW). He is also a highly experienced meditation and mindfulness practitioner and student of spiritual and psychological paths. The practice in Crows Nest offers our clients sensitive and attuned counselling and psychotherapy services supportive of compassionate insight and empowerment for you to unpack and transform your mental health and personal life journey. Our space is friendly and safe counselling and psychotherapy space for individuals and couples to unpack and work through their concerns.
Emma Lawson
Psychologist, MPsych, PsyBA General
Verified
Verified
Therapy is about increasing meaning, connection and quality of life. I support clients to explore what their needs (and goals) are, and how best they may be met. Some clients seek accessible, practical knowledge and skills to feel more equipped to manage stressors, or overcome ill mental health. Others need safety and space to better understand themselves and their experience, and guidance to use that insight to create meaning, self-compassion, and the changes that they wish to see in their lives. For many of my clients, therapy is an opportunity to be believed in, until they are better able to believe in themselves.
Kerrie O'Sullivan
Counsellor, PACFA
Verified
Verified
In my role as Counsellor and Somatic Experiencing Practitioner, I aim to help people find safety and connection in their bodies, their relationships and in the environment in which they live. My deep understanding of the nervous system along with a non judgemental, empathic and caring presence, helps my clients to settle into their own therapeutic exploration of self.
Grounded Space Counselling
Counsellor
Do you struggle with relationship difficulties, from intimate partners to friendships? Whether it be from infidelity, monogamy or navigating ethical non-monogamy to dishonesty, trust, boundary setting or simply the courage to express your needs. Have you been deeply hurt in a relationship and at a loss as to how to heal and where to go from here? Do you need to break free of people pleasing patterns and the anxiety and guilt around being authentic to your needs? Do you struggle with the courage to express your needs? These are just some of the many questions that life throws at us and they can often be complex issues to unravel...
Rochelle Oshlack
Psychotherapist, PACFA
Verified
Verified
Rochelle offers compassionate therapeutic support for adults and adolescence, in dealing with a wide variety of issues including but limited to; addictions, anxiety, depression, sexuality, gender, grief, loss, trauma, relationships, divorce, separation, parenting challenges and life changes. Together as client and therapist, loving attention is paid to what happens in our shared interchange. This is often playful and always compassionate and non-judgemental. More choice results from this compassionate awareness, and with more choice comes long lasting positive change, satisfying relationships with yourself, loved ones and the world.
Rachel Isabel McGinty
Counsellor, PACFA
Verified
1 Endorsed
Verified
1 Endorsed
I help people create a life that is worth being present for. I know the frustration of feeling stuck in your life. There is something that isn’t working for you - your mind, body, choices, patterns, job, relationship. Maybe your relationships are unsatisfying and you desire more connection, communication, safety and empathy with your friends and partner. Perhaps you are stuck in a pattern of people pleasing and often feel overlooked, undervalued and frustrated. It could be that your mind has tendencies that don’t work for you and you find yourself overwhelmed with overthinking, anxiety, depression or stress.
Jan Hatch
Counsellor, MA, PACFA
Verified
Verified
Are you anxious or depressed, feeling isolated, lonely or overwhelmed? Are you struggling to manage some complicated emotional challenges? Maybe it’s difficult for you to get through a day without collapsing in an emotional heap. You may be dealing with the ending of an important relationship or you are struggling to come to terms with the death of someone you loved, feeling unable to cope with the grief you are experiencing. You may find it difficult to deal with a major life transition or with changes in your health or your body. Or maybe you just don’t know who you are anymore and you want more out of life.
Larissa Kirpichnikov
Psychologist, PsyBA - Couns. Psych.
Verified
Verified
Couples Therapy & Coaching / Individuals Therapy & Coaching / Family Dispute Resolution Mediation (FDRP) & Divorce Coaching Services. With more than 25 years experience of living and working in Australia and abroad, Larissa understands that life and relationships are not always smooth. Whether you are wishing to improve your intimate relationship, seek individual support, parenting &/or financial FDR mediation services, or divorce coaching, please call to discuss how we can best assist you. You may also visit our website for further information.
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Lyndsay Babcock
Psychologist, MA, PsyBA - Clin. Psych
Verified
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I work with high functioning, ambitious women who are experiencing stress and/or burn-out, who want to improve their self-care and self-awareness and who want to learn how to manage their stress differently and have balance.
Christine Bennett
Psychotherapist, PACFA
Verified
Verified
Are you struggling with conflict and feeling distant from your partner? Are you constantly worried about life and what happens next? Or is it more about what happened today or yesterday? Are you overcome by a significant loss in your life? A job, your health, a friend, a partner, a house, a family member? Or is life just so “blahhh” that it is a struggle to get through the day? All these situations and many others are a result of your most intimate and important relationship – the one you have with yourself!
Naomi Halls
Psychologist, PsychD, MAPS
Verified
Verified
In my role as a clinical psychologist I will listen to you, the expert in your own life, to guide us in your treatment goals. Therapy can be short term and specific, or you may wish to have a safe and contemplative space to explore re- occurring themes in your life. You may need to examine and reset patterns of behaviour so your family/relationships can flourish and enjoy wellbeing, or you may be a performing artist or student struggling with performance anxiety, perfectionism and goal setting.
Lizzie Fairbanks Therapy
Counsellor, PACFA
Verified
Verified
The world is changing, not just on a macro scale concerning issues like climate change, globalisation and social media, but on a micro scale too; the way we identify personally in terms of intersectionality, sexuality and relationship orientation. Whilst there is an increasing awareness and growing acceptance of new and different ways of being in the world, we can also find a whole new set of complex challenges arise when we start to embody our true identity. Maybe these challenges are rooted in past trauma, negative core beliefs and self-talk, overwhelming emotions, unhelpful coping behaviours or ways of relating to others.
Sophie Mellish
Psychotherapist, PACFA
Verified
1 Endorsed
Verified
1 Endorsed
My name is Sophie, a Sydney-based counsellor/psychotherapist living and working on Cammeraygal land. My pronouns are she/her. I work within a person-centred, integrative framework. Alongside my specialties, I have experience in working with issues such as relationship issues, self-esteem. anxiety, grief and loss and, disability. I feel incredibly privileged to be walking alongside individuals in their therapeutic journey.
Robyn Price
Psychotherapist, PACFA
Verified
Verified
Are you constantly anxious? Stuck or struggling with relationships? No idea how to move on? My name's Robyn and I'm a Gestalt Psychotherapist and Somatic Movement/Dance Movement Therapist with 17 years' experience working with groups and individuals. A deep knowledge of body process and nonverbal communication allows me to attend to the whole of a person's experience, rather than just what they say. I take a relational, creative and trauma-informed approach, and tailor it for every person or group I work with.
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Gabriela Salabert
Psychologist, MA, FAPS
Verified
Verified
I provide clinical psychologist services and psychotherapy for adults, couples and families. l work with grief, depression, anxiety, relationships and family problems. Im also specialised on trauma work including Intergenerational trauma, Grief, Loss and Bereavement and Antenatal and Postnatal parental adjustments.
Phoebe Allwell
Psychotherapist, MA, PACFA
Verified
Verified
The Embodied Presence Process Integrates Psychotherapy, Counselling and Energy Medicine. This is a unique integrative approach that unleashes rapid personal transformation and embodiment. The Embodied Presence Process was developed by psychotherapist and energy medicine practitioner Phoebe Allwell, a true integration of established clinical practices, energy medicine and ancient spiritual teachings. The Embodied Presence Process will support you to rapidly release anything that blocks or limits you being the fullest expression of your true self. Call or email Phoebe now to book a complimentary 20min consultation.
Tori McCarthy
Psychotherapist, PACFA
Verified
Verified
I have extensive experience working in the field of Addiction and Trauma and believe whole heartedly that recovery is possible. I am a creative therapist who works intuitively and experimentally. I believe in treating the underlying causes not just the symptoms. I have held various senior clinical roles and continue to work as a Senior therapist at South Pacific Private where I run the sex and love addiction intensive programs. Working with Addiction and intimacy related disorders is an area I am passionate about as I love witnessing the profound change that can occur when we get vulnerable, trust and become our authentic selves.
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Attachment-based Counsellors
Is attachment-based therapy the same as attachment therapy?
Attachment-based therapy may be confused with what is called “attachment therapy” (sometimes called “holding therapy”), a discredited and dangerous approach to treating children with attachment disorders, autism, or other mental health concerns. Attachment therapy—not attachment-based therapy—may involve restraining a child, forcing eye contact, and other coercive or abusive techniques. None of these practices are used in attachment-based therapy and the two modalities are in no way related.
What should I expect from attachment-based therapy?
Attachment-based therapy is based on attachment theory, which posits that children’s early relationships with their caregivers strongly influence their ability to navigate the world later in life. Thus, adults who seek attachment-based therapy should expect to deeply explore their childhood, identifying the dynamics or experiences that disrupted their attachment and the steps necessary to overcome challenges that arose as a result. Parents and children should expect to explore the possible factors that disrupted the parent-child relationship and work toward restoring trust and connection.
How long does attachment-based therapy last?
Certain forms of attachment-based therapy, especially those designed for parents and children, last for a set number of sessions; for example, Attachment and Biobehavioural Catch-Up, a specific attachment-based approach for young children who have undergone early adversity, unfolds over 10 one-hour sessions. When attachment-based therapy is practiced on adults or combined with other modalities, it may not last a specific length of time; clients may wish to ask prospective therapists how long they expect treatment to take.
Does attachment-based therapy work?
Most of the research on attachment-based therapy focuses on children and adolescents. Some of this research shows a positive effect, especially for attachment-based family therapy (ABFT). Other studies, however, have found that attachment-based therapy is no more effective than other approaches to childhood depression, anxiety, or suicidality. Less is known about the therapy’s efficacy on adult populations.