New Remedy Therapy

New Remedy Therapy Based in Yarrawonga Vic offering therapy to children and their families. Medicare rebates apply.

Over 100 years later, the real lesson from Sigmund's Freuds paper about Little Hans is simple:✨ When children are scared...
02/12/2025

Over 100 years later, the real lesson from Sigmund's Freuds paper about Little Hans is simple:
✨ When children are scared, the answer is not correction — it’s connection.
✨ Every fear has meaning.
✨ And every behaviour is a communication.
Children don’t need adults to analyse them.
They need adults who listen — with curiosity, attunement, and compassion.

Modern treatment for child anxiety focuses on:1. Relationship FirstThe therapeutic relationship — or the parent–child re...
01/12/2025

Modern treatment for child anxiety focuses on:
1. Relationship First
The therapeutic relationship — or the parent–child relationship — is the foundation.
Children regulate through safe adults.
2. Play as Communication
Play therapy reveals themes, fears, and meaning just like Hans’ dreams once did — but in a developmentally appropriate way.
3. Skills Through Safety, Not Pressure
Exposure is gentle and collaborative, not forced.
We build tolerance after creating safety.
4. Caregiver Support
Parents learn:
• how to respond to anxiety
• how to co-regulate
• how to reduce unintentional reinforcement of avoidance
• how to create predictability and calm
5. Understanding the Story Behind the Fear
Just like Hans’ fear had deeper roots, children today need adults who ask:
👉 “What is this fear protecting them from?”
👉 “What is this behaviour communicating?”
When we understand the story underneath, treatment becomes kinder, quicker, and far more effective.

It’s easy to slip into believing that your the only one with a tricky family or situation because your having therapy. M...
01/12/2025

It’s easy to slip into believing that your the only one with a tricky family or situation because your having therapy. Maybe you even fantasise that your therapist “has it all together” or is “from a good family”. Sometimes this is in part true in that they have had different experiences to you but often I find lived experience brings social workers to the work they do. Lived experience isn’t essential but it brings a certain type of relatability that I feel makes therapeutic work have more depth, I don’t think you can truely imagine the struggle of family violence, of homelessness , of questioning a q***r identity or even a diagnosis until you have lived it. I’m not saying it’s essential I’m just saying it’s different. It’s important we don’t make assumptions about others; assumptions are different to judgements;but they are related. Assumptions keep us ostracised, seperate and on the outside when really connection and seeing a person as a whole being is important step to understanding ourselves and others.

Current research shows that anxiety in children often arises from:• family stress or conflict• separation or change• sen...
30/11/2025

Current research shows that anxiety in children often arises from:
• family stress or conflict
• separation or change
• sensory overload
• unpredictable environments
• big transitions (new baby, new school, moves, grief)
• anxious or overwhelmed caregivers
• developmental vulnerabilities
• attachment ruptures
• difficult or frightening experiences
• chronic worry or perfectionism
• neurodivergence-related overwhelm
Little Hans showed us early on that children express emotional tension through phobias, rituals, avoidance, and bodily sensations. That the body and the mind evolve in recognisable patterns and themes; especially when analysed in therapy.
Today, we have far more compassionate and effective ways to understand and respond that evolved beyond what cases like this offered but they still helps us imagine the inner worlds of children.

Freud was the first persons essays I read when introduced to analysis. It isn't perfect, far from it, but some of it is ...
30/11/2025

Freud was the first persons essays I read when introduced to analysis. It isn't perfect, far from it, but some of it is crazy brilliant and much of it is still very relevant for how to understand adults and children. Freud famously linked Hans’ fear of horses to the “Oedipus complex.” This is an important aspect of therapeutic themes but this isn't entirely how we understand children today.
Modern child mental health care is also highlights things that are:
✔️ developmentally informed
✔️ trauma-aware
✔️ attachment-based
✔️ neuroscience-supported
✔️ focused on co-regulation and environment
Why mention this?
Because the value in the Little Hans case is not the outdated theory — but the idea that adults should look beneath the behaviour instead of managing the behaviour alone.
Today’s interpretation:
A child’s fear is a form of communication, not misbehaviour. A child may have a fear which is symbolic; the real fears are too scary to face.

Another lovely listening to the lovely Paula speak from TWT
28/11/2025

Another lovely listening to the lovely Paula speak from TWT

I shared a post yesterday about the case study of :little Hans" a case of Sigmund Freud from the early 1900s. Little Han...
27/11/2025

I shared a post yesterday about the case study of :little Hans" a case of Sigmund Freud from the early 1900s. Little Hans was terrified of something adults considered harmless — horses.
Today, we see the same pattern with:
• dogs
• traffic
• playground equipment
• bedtime
• school drop-off
• separation from a parent
Children don’t fear “the thing.”
They fear what the thing represents in their emotional world.
Anxiety for a child is often a symbol for:
✔️ uncertainty
✔️ transitions
✔️ big feelings
✔️ changes in family life
✔️ fears about safety, separation, or loss
Little Hans taught us that children’s anxieties always have roots — even if children can’t articulate them.

In 1909, Freud wrote about a 5-year-old boy known as Little Hans, who developed a sudden, overwhelming fear of horses.Wh...
27/11/2025

In 1909, Freud wrote about a 5-year-old boy known as Little Hans, who developed a sudden, overwhelming fear of horses.
While some of Freud’s theories don’t align with today’s science, this case is still historically important because it was one of the first attempts to truly listen to the emotional life of a child.
What we take from it today isn’t the theory…
It’s the principle:
➡️ Children’s fears are meaningful.
➡️ Anxiety is rarely “random.”
➡️ And behaviour always tells a story.
Modern child focused therapy continues to build on that foundation:
Children communicate through behaviour, play, and relationships long before they have the words.

As we meander through life's grand tapestry, remember the whimsical child within, caked beneath the armored disguise of ...
24/11/2025

As we meander through life's grand tapestry, remember the whimsical child within, caked beneath the armored disguise of adulthood. This year has been an odyssey, a labyrinth of trials and tribulations. As the final month unfolds, perhaps you're careening through exhaustion or frozen in bewilderment. Adulting is a mystifying enigma; nothing truly prepares us for its weight. I strive to inject vitality into this digital realm, cultivating knowledge and trust. Being a therapist is a paradox - an honor and a horror. Witnessing suffering and comprehending the capacity for cruelty can be overwhelming. Yet, amidst life's chaos, there are fleeting moments of serenity. In those stillnesses, you'll find solace in knowing you're navigating this absurd journey adequately.

Current fixation - dinosaurs and trucks. With some help from $16 tough tray, some wash bins , the cheapest shaving crea...
23/11/2025

Current fixation - dinosaurs and trucks. With some help from $16 tough tray, some wash bins , the cheapest shaving cream I could find, cornflour and coco and chia and a few hours were passed

🌱 Children don’t tell us what’s wrong—they show us through play, behaviour and connection.At New Remedy Therapy, we list...
15/11/2025

🌱 Children don’t tell us what’s wrong—
they show us through play, behaviour and connection.
At New Remedy Therapy, we listen to the story beneath the surface.
Therapy that meets kids where they are.

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