We agree to respect and acknowledge the richness of our own diverse cultures from the many lands we come from, and that of our proud present multicultural Australia, who respects and bows to the ancestors of this Southern land.
Our Promise
How We Work
Individual Psychotherapy
Individual psychotherapy is the cornerstone of our work. Our sensitive, trained psychotherapists engage in intensive psychodynamic therapy to provide a safe space for healing trauma, repairing past neglect, addressing addictions, and countering domestic violence. This work is crucial in helping individuals reclaim their lives and build healthier futures.
Social Work Support
Social work support is provided through weekly group sessions, focusing on various aspects of daily life and emotional well-being:
- Life Skills: Learning essential skills such as shopping, cooking, and self-care.
- Emotional Support: Discussing personal emotional challenges and those related to their infants and children.
- Social Interaction: Providing opportunities for mothers to socialise and build supportive networks.
- Parenting Discussions: Addressing common parenting concerns, including anxieties, colic, breastfeeding, sleep issues, and toilet training.
- Prenatal and Postnatal Sessions: Special sessions before and after birth to promote communication with their baby in the womb and foster secure attachment after birth.
- Nutrition Education: Emphasising the importance of nourishing food for both the mother and baby. Participants enjoy meals or morning tea during sessions and take home nutritious food.
- Education: Encouraging attendance at TAFE (Technical and Further Education) to pursue subjects of interest, helping them gain skills and qualifications for future opportunities.
These services aim to create a circle of security and support, helping mothers build a stable foundation for themselves and their families.
Outcomes
The expected outcomes of the Strong Mothers Programs are:
- Mothers will be less traumatised by their past and by their present problems
- Mothers will better bond and allow infants to attach to them
- Mothers will feel supported by the professionals who serve them
- Mothers will feel heard and have voices that express their needs
- Mothers will develop confidence in their mothering
- Mothers will enjoy increased knowledge and support of other mothers
- Mothers will sustain relationships with their partners, or make good choices in separating
- Mothers will stand up to domestic violence
- Mothers will develop a career pathway by studying
- Mothers will have more children by choice not by accident
About Our Outcomes
Why we professionals in Strong Mothers join in trust with our young mothers
For the last ten years we have worked with mothers and their infants to develop an understanding of trauma. We have researched, and have been in discussion with top specialists in individual weekly supervision involving psychoanalysts here in Sydney, and world specialists in USA and UK.
Norma Tracey our Founder and Clinical Director wrote of her years of experience with her colleagues who now inform this work through weekly meetings around our Psychoanalytic theory of trauma:
“Modern psychoanalytic theory pays special attention to the emerging understanding that childhood trauma, as well as severe adult trauma, can lead to an autistic cut-out or even a psychotic pocket where emotion can’t be experienced, pain can’t be suffered, meaning is lost, and there is a concretisation of experience and loss of capacity for reverie and empathy.”
- The women have formed strong relationships and support networks outside the group time
- All the children have remained in the safe care of their mothers
- Mother-baby/child attachments are more secure
- More life satisfaction for the mothers in their mothering role
- Mothers’ voluntary commitment to the program and a willingness to learn improved parenting
- None of the women are living in domestic or family violence
- Physical health, nutrition and emotional health have all improved
- Many of the women are engaged in further education or employment
- The groups have stable membership and high retention rates
Address
11 Banksia Close,
Lane Cove 2066
Get Involved
We want to help as many mothers as possible and we need you to do it.
To refer a mother to this program, volunteer, make media enquiries or contribute resources such as food or professional services please contact Norma Tracey on 0448 419 049
Donations
Please make your transfer to:
Bank: ANZ
Account Name: Strong Mothers Inc
BSB: 012 266
Account Number: 331 633 857
All payments are fully deductable
We have DGR.