Life is eternal, love is immortal and death is only a horizon, and a horizon is only the limit of our sight.
R W Raymond
About Lyn Abery – Psychotherapy and Counselling
Lyn Abery has over 30 years experience as an analytic Psychotherapist and Counsellor
She is a highly qualified analytic psychotherapist with over 30 years’ experience working with individuals and couples. Her qualifications include: Diploma of Adult Psychotherapy, Graduate Diploma of Counselling (Honours), Diploma of Adult Education, Mental Health Certificate.
Lyn’s unique experience and qualifications bring the ability to reach people who feel very lonely and isolated and struggle to find and maintain fulfilling and safe relationships. Her focus is to help everyone feel at ease with a gentle, caring and empathic approach. Lyn provides her clients with the encouragement and support they need to effect positive change in their lives. This is often well beyond what they thought themselves capable of.
Analytic psychotherapy involves helping people explore deeper emotional places, where the roots of many psychological problems exist. The idea is to address ongoing struggles at their core. Lyn likens the process to constantly plucking at a problem weed in your garden which, frustratingly, continues to grow back, inhibiting the growth of the surrounding flowers. It takes more effort and care to dig up the weed at its roots, but the results are lasting and allow the rest of the garden to heal and flourish.
Lyn has a lifetime of experience in health care and the corporate sector, which involved working with many different types of people from different backgrounds. In addition to her role as a psychotherapist, Lyn has worked as an adult educator, trainer, mentor and manager, bringing a wealth of knowledge, patience and understanding to her work as a psychotherapist.
Lyn is a Clinical Member of the International Association of Relational Psychoanalysts and Psychotherapists (Australia). She provides psychotherapy services in person and online.
When you are struggling with painful emotions that always seem to be there, just like the weeds. It is hard to imagine that will ever change, but from my experience of working with people over the last 30 years I have seen the transformation that psychotherapy can produce in peoples lives.
I have been able to help people struggling with intimacy issues to be able to form meaningful and lasting intimate relationships. I have also helped people struggling with a lack of confidence in their own ability to take on new careers or complete post graduate training and move forward with their careers.
My special area of interest is helping people with early childhood deficits and trauma. We always know when we have been traumatised but not always when we have missed out on getting what we need in order to thrive. We grow up and get on with our lives but it is always emotionally painful and hard work. Being able to understand what happened and how that has affected us and then allow the therapy to provide what is nneeded in order to grow is a big step, a courageous step. However I have seen the transformation in the lives of people who have allowed themselves to reflect on the past, learn from it and grow through it. They have been able to make good decisions and to experience more meaningful and fulfilling lives as adults in an adult world.
Psychotherapy is about helping people to move from the stuck places in their lives to a greater emotional freedom.