Maggie Newlyn

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BA(Hons) (Psych) MSW

Maggie is an experienced psychotherapist who has worked for many years in Sydney as well as Seattle, Washington, USA. She has worked with a wide range of clients, including the chronically mentally ill in hospitals and in day treatment as well as inpatient disturbed children at Macquarie Hospital. Her private practice has included adults, children and families. In Seattle she had the opportunity to work therapeutically with high risk mothers and babies, home visiting each mother and baby weekly for two years.

Maggie also has been a teacher of mental health professionals, specializing in psychoanalytic theories of child development, child psychotherapy, and the impact of psychic trauma in childhood on subsequent development and adult behaviour. She has always been active in leadership roles in professional organizations, including Parent Infant Family Australia and the New South Wales Institute of Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy. She is a member of the Australian Association of Social Workers and the Australian Psychological Society.