Stephanie Gillies in Leopold, Victoria, Australia | Therapist

Stephanie Gillies

Locality: Leopold, Victoria, Australia

Phone: +61 438 568 049

Address: 21, Ascent Avenue 3224 Leopold, VIC, Australia

Website: www.childosophy.com/stephanie-gillies

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25.01.2022 An appointment with a registered Childosophy Practitioner offers insight and awareness to support a child and assist them to interpret what they need for their highest growth. If you or someone you know is in need, please contact me to make an appointment. I am at the Childosophy rooms at Newtown Mind and Body on Thursdays, Fridays and Saturday and available in Leopold at other times by appointment.

25.01.2022 Separation anxiety is a very common response as we transition from one environment to another. If children are not yet ready to separate from their parent (moth...ers, generally) because they feel unsafe without them, they will be resistant to change. The child may feel that the new environment is not able to meet their needs in the same way they are met at home. There are many ways that separation anxiety will present in the child, from clinging to being rigid, having fears, exhibiting insecurity, and unstoppable crying. Separation anxiety is an opportunity to recognise the unmet need for safety and security in your child; it is not a problem to be fixed. Excerpt from 'The Push for a Child Philosophy - What Children Really Need You to Know.' by Dr Maxine Therese

22.01.2022 Childosophy Flower Essences support each of the 7 Foundational Needs. For pricing and orders please contact me by Private Message or call 0438568049.

20.01.2022 Back to school! Our Term 3 registrations are now open for our Pure Wonder - meditation, mindfulness & movement classes for children. These classes support chil...dren to uncover their unmet needs and discover why their little bodies respond to life in certain ways. Children learn how to self-regulate, self-soothe, become less reactive and discover how to meet their own emotional needs. Based on Dr Maxine Therese's Foundational Needs Model and taught by Annie Macrae - yoga teacher, certified Pure Wonder teacher and one of our Certified Childosophy Practitioners, your little ones will love these classes. Held on Wednesday and Thursday afternoons from 4-4.50pm at Newtown Mind and Body and commencing on Wednesday 24th of July and Thursday 25th of July for seven weeks. Classes are purposefully kept small, click below to register your children and reserve their place now: https://www.childosophy.com/copy-of-pure-wonder-registratio

19.01.2022 In Melbourne as Stage 3 restrictions return, children have another week of school holidays before returning to remote learning for the start of Term 3. In Regi...onal Victoria, it is business as usual for our children returning to school on Monday. What a confusing time for our little ones! They may be feeling a little apprehensive about the return to school and a little confused that their Melbourne friends have an extra week of holidays. We can help our children feel safe and secure anytime they want by teaching them to connect to their breath. Breathing in...I calm my body Breathing out...I relax They can breathe into the feelings of discomfort or unease in their bodies when they are scared, feel uncertain or begin to panic. We don't need answers as to why they are feeling what they are in this moment and they don’t have to fix anything at all - just let them be in the wonder of YOU.

18.01.2022 A beautiful activity based on our Children’s Wellbeing Cards is to encourage your little ones to see their own power. Encourage them to close their eyes and to... try and imagine the sun shining into their stomach, just above their belly button. Ask them Do you know how great you are? Do you feel your power?. They can also practice seeing their own power and greatness by looking in the mirror. Encourage them to share their beautiful radiance with the world. When they honour the power within themselves, they will not need other people’s praise all the time. Our Children’s Wellbeing Cards will be back in stock soon. If you would love to be added to the waitlist, send us your details to [email protected].

18.01.2022 For those of you wondering about Childosophy- the approach developed by Dr. Maxine Therese. Well worth the time.

17.01.2022 When we do not recognise that children are indicating vital unmet needs through their actions, behaviours, symptoms and obsessions, we overlook important inform...ation. The issues and challenges for children, those things that arise as a matter of growth are not complications, but rather a natural response to the child’s separated self, and thus offer opportunities to distinguish what needs of the child may be unmet. The adult expectation of how children ought to feel and think (based on how we have been taught to feel and think) can now be reconsidered and instead of projecting our feelings and thoughts on children we can gain more respect for the child as a self-directed being. . Excerpt from 'The Push for a Child Philosophy - What Children Really Need You to Know' by Dr Maxine Therese - available via Amazon Australia or www.childosophy.com

16.01.2022 To all the Mother's that have been born - new, older, biological, non-biological, step, foster, grandmothers and great-grandmothers, we wish you a wonderful day celebrating. To those grieving the loss of a Mother or of a child, we send love. .

13.01.2022 "Because childhood challenges often lay dormant until we become parents, our children offer us an opportunity as they grow to revisit our past struggles" An interesting perspective from Dr. Maxine Thérèse ...

12.01.2022 The Foundational Needs Model (FNM), developed by Dr Maxine Therese, is a whole-child needs model that supports human needs from the beginnings. The Foundationa...l Needs closely align with the seven principal Chakras and the themes of each need. Each of the Foundational Needs allows for an interpretation of a physical location in the child’s anatomy, the corresponding thought patterns and psychological aspects, as well as the often-inhibited potentials as they manifest through the child’s behaviours and issues. With the FNM, we can begin to look more impartially at those things that occur in the daily lives of children and help children notice when they have become disconnected from their unified state of being from their soul. When a child has to hide or deny aspects of themselves and how they feel, or believe they have to think about things in ways that please others, it causes incongruence between their feelings and thoughts, and this affects their body and energy system, resulting in the health problems and behavioural issues that are most common in childhood today. The FNM takes us a long way toward the aim of an improved philosophy of the child because it allows us to identify how the child’s unmet needs present in a variety of ways. With this knowledge, we are better equipped to support the child especially when life situations create certain fragmentations to return to a state of balance and wholeness. To read more about Dr Maxine Therese's work head to www.childosophy.com See more

12.01.2022 Children are not often afforded the Need to Act, and many adults presume to know what is best for them without giving them an opportunity to act for themselves.... Many adults continue to control and dominate children in order to make children comply. In this way, adults largely enforce their own will over the child’s will. Of course, children need guidance, protection, and help from adults, and when they are very little, a parent needs to make decisions based on what they feel is best for the child, I know this very well, but as children grow (and today it seems to be happening faster than ever before), they need much less of this way of relating and much more space to unfold. Ultimately, children must learn to feel and know what is best for them, according to them. Excerpt from ‘The Push for a Child Philosophy What Children Really Need You to Know. https://www.amazon.com.au/Push-Child-Philosoph//0994641311

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11.01.2022 In order to transform the limiting patterns and beliefs that are not supportive of our children's highest growth, it is necessary that we learn to hold space fo...r our children. In order to do this, we first must make the space. I know how difficult this can be, because as we manage the many demands we have as parents, teachers, and caregivers of children, we are managing a variety of other significant aspects of life. Making space requires time; more than this, however, it requires an intention to be present and a commitment to attune with your child. The consequence of adults becoming more attentive is recognised as what is broadly termed mindfulness. The mindful approach requires that adults engage in moment-to-moment awareness, hold compassion and unconditional acceptance of the child, as well as maintain emotional awareness and self-regulation of themselves. Being mindful is a big part of the process of deeply connecting with children. Excerpt from 'The Push for a Child Philosophy - What Children Really Need You to Know' by Dr Maxine Therese, Pg 362. Available via https://www.amazon.com.au/Push-Child-Philosoph//0994641311

09.01.2022 Visualising, imagining, and pretending are all pivotal to the child’s need to see. Learning, pattern recognition, and focus are all improved by imaginary play. ... Play improves a child’s social and emotional skills, their language skills, as well as their cognitive skills. Teachers are aware of the necessity of play and how it informs learning. Parents know how much their children learn when they are role-playing, dressing-up, or imagining a world beneath the sea. Research on children’s early learning and development highlights the importance of play and supporting children in their play actually enhances and contributes to the child learning, rather than it taking away from it. Excerpt from ‘The Push for a Child Philosophy What Children Really Need You to Know. https://www.amazon.com.au/Push-Child-Philosoph//0994641311

07.01.2022 Reposted from @drmaxinetherese This beautiful journal helps little ones learn a whole new way of listening to the messages their body sends them - and that the...se feelings and behaviours have meaning. Each chapter is dedicated to one of Dr Maxine Therese's Foundational Needs and children will discover how what they feel, think and believe impacts them. They will uncover their unmet needs and most importantly discover how they can meet these needs to bring them back to balance. This journal is a true gift for little ones. Buy now via link in bio.

06.01.2022 My Foundational Needs Model (FNM), is a whole-child needs model that supports human needs from the beginnings. The Foundational Needs closely align with the se...ven principal Chakras and the themes of each need. Each of the Foundational Needs allows for an interpretation of a physical location in the child’s anatomy, the corresponding thought patterns and psychological aspects, as well as the often-inhibited potentials as they manifest through the child’s behaviours and issues. With the FNM, we can begin to look more impartially at those things that occur in the daily lives of children and help children notice when they have become disconnected from their unified state of being from their soul. When a child has to hide or deny aspects of themselves and how they feel, or believe they have to think about things in ways that please others, it causes incongruence between their feelings and thoughts, and this affects their body and energy system, resulting in the health problems and behavioural issues that are most common in childhood today. The FNM takes us a long way toward the aim of an improved philosophy of the child because it allows us to identify how the child’s unmet needs present in a variety of ways. With this knowledge, we are better equipped to support the child especially when life situations create certain fragmentations to return to a state of balance and wholeness. To read more about my work head to www.childosophy.com See more

03.01.2022 For those of you wondering about the approach developed by Dr. Maxine Therese. Well worth the time.

02.01.2022 This beautiful journal helps little ones learn a whole new way of listening to the messages their body sends them - and that these feelings and behaviours have ...meaning. Each chapter is dedicated to one of @drmaxinetherese Foundational Needs and children will discover how what they feel, think and believe impacts them. This journal is a true gift for little ones. Buy now: https://www.amazon.com.au/Wonder-You-Self//ref=mp_s_a_1_5