Psychologist specialising in
relationships and attachment
— Elwood, Melbourne
Transforming old emotional habits that quietly shape your life and relationships.
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Daniel Lichtman ∙ Registered Psychologist, Melbourne
“Why this might be different”
Fifteen years working as an attachment-based couples therapist has given me a rare depth of understanding of relationship dynamics, and heavily informs the way I now help individuals cultivate healthier, more satisfying relationships.
Schema Therapy
The ways we learned to cope as children don’t always serve us as adults. Schema Therapy is built on the idea that early experiences, especially the painful ones, shape deep beliefs about ourselves and the world. These beliefs often run beneath our awareness, quietly steering our reactions, our relationships and our choices.
You might notice a schema at work when you keep ending up in the same painful situations, or when your reaction to something feels bigger than the moment warrants. Common ones include feeling fundamentally flawed, fearing abandonment, putting everyone else first, or struggling to trust people.
Schema Therapy helps you name these patterns, understand where they came from, and change them, drawing on attachment theory, CBT and mindfulness for change that actually lasts.
Click the button below for further reading: International Society of Schema Therapy
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Taking the Next Step
If this describes something you are living with, you are welcome to get in touch to talk about working together. You do not need to have it all worked out first, and you do not need to be certain about what you want to do about the relationship itself. Making sense of it is where we begin.