Relationship difficulties can have a significant impact on emotional wellbeing, self-esteem, and the way we experience connection with others. You may find yourself stuck in repeating relationship patterns, struggling to express your needs, feeling anxious around closeness or conflict, or noticing difficulties with trust, boundaries, or emotional safety. Often, these experiences are shaped by deeper attachment patterns, past relationships, or long-standing beliefs about ourselves and others.
Lumaura Psychology provides therapy for individuals exploring relationship patterns and attachment difficulties, supporting clients in Brisbane and surrounding western suburbs including Kenmore, Chapel Hill, Indooroopilly, Brookfield, Taringa, Bardon, and Toowong. Sessions are also offered via secure Telehealth, providing flexible and accessible support for people throughout Australia.
Three approaches,
matched to you.
Rather than relying on a single therapy model, sessions are guided by what feels most helpful and relevant for you in the moment. These evidence-based approaches are commonly used in supporting relationship and attachment difficulties and are integrated thoughtfully depending on your experiences, goals, and needs.
Internal Family Systems
IFSExplore the different “parts” of yourself that may emerge in relationships — including protective, reactive, or vulnerable parts — and develop a more compassionate understanding of the patterns influencing connection, conflict, and emotional safety.
Understanding relational and attachment patternsAcceptance & Commitment Therapy
ACTDevelop practical skills to manage difficult emotions, communicate more clearly, set healthier boundaries, and respond more effectively during moments of conflict or disconnection.
Communication, boundaries, and emotional flexibilityEye Movement Desensitisation
EMDRProcess unresolved relational experiences — including betrayal, rejection, attachment wounds, or difficult childhood dynamics — that may continue to influence current relationships and emotional responses.
Healing from past relational experiencesIs This Type of Therapy Right for You?
Relationship-focused therapy may be helpful if you find yourself caught in repeating patterns of conflict, emotional disconnection, or communication difficulties. You may struggle to express your needs, feel highly sensitive to rejection or abandonment, become overwhelmed during conflict, or notice patterns of withdrawing, shutting down, or losing yourself in relationships.
Therapy can also support people who experience difficulties with trust, closeness, boundaries, self-worth, or forming and sustaining healthy relationships. Often, these patterns are shaped by earlier attachment experiences, family dynamics, or past relationships that continue to influence how we connect with others in the present.
You do not need to be in a current relationship to benefit from this work. Many people seek therapy to better understand themselves, develop healthier relational patterns, and feel more secure, connected, and emotionally grounded in their relationships.
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What to Expect in Your Sessions
Therapy provides a warm, supportive, and non-judgemental space to explore the patterns shaping your relationships, emotional responses, and sense of connection with others. Sessions are collaborative and guided at a pace that feels manageable and supportive for you.
Alongside deeper exploration and self-understanding, therapy may include practical strategies to help with communication, emotional regulation, boundaries, and navigating relationship challenges with greater clarity and confidence.
Over time, this work can help strengthen self-awareness, deepen your sense of self-worth, and support healthier, more secure, and more meaningful relationships.
Make a booking enquiryMeet Mike Spiller
Mike Spiller is a registered psychologist with experience supporting adults through anxiety, trauma, stress, relationship difficulties, and significant life challenges across both public and private settings in Queensland and New Zealand.
His approach is collaborative, trauma-informed, and evidence-based, drawing on Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), Internal Family Systems (IFS), EMDR, and CBT. Therapy is tailored to each person's individual experiences, relational patterns, and goals.
Mike works from a place of warmth, curiosity, and genuine care, creating a supportive space where clients can explore their experiences with greater self-understanding and emotional clarity.
Sessions are available in person in Toowong, Brisbane, or online via secure Telehealth for clients throughout Australia.
