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Bringing clarity to coercive relational interference, child-mediated coercive control, and disrupted family relationships.
Bringing clarity to coercive relational interference, child-mediated coercive control, and disrupted family relationships.
Amanda Sillars specialises in child psychological manipulation, coercive relational interference and complex family and relationship dynamics, including a pattern she describes as survival-based rejection. She provides counselling, psychoeducation and consultancy for individuals and families affected by coercion, control and fractured relationships. Her work examines how manipulation, fear and relational pressure can alter attachment, shape behaviour and undermine trust, and the conditions that may support safety, recovery and, where appropriate, reconnection.
Her lived experience spans generations, displaced from her mother as a child and later from her own children in adulthood. These experiences, including profound loss and eventual reunification, have shaped her lifelong commitment to helping families heal through knowledge, insight, and compassion.
Amanda holds a Bachelor of Psychological Science from Griffith University, and is completing a Bachelor of Counselling. She grounds her work in trauma-informed, attachment-based, and evidence-led practice. In addition to her clinical and educational work with families, Amanda consults to practitioners across law, psychology, counselling, and social work, providing insight into the psychological mechanisms of coercive influence, child manipulation, and relational trauma.
Her work illuminates the hidden patterns that harm children and fracture families, such as loyalty manipulation, emotional coercion, and the rewriting of memories, and offers clear, compassionate strategies that prioritise safety, promote understanding, and guide healing with integrity and care.
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