The Lane Cove rooms are at 2 Austin Street, directly opposite the Lane Cove Library and a few metres from Longueville Road. If you are coming from the village it is a walk of two or three minutes, and the parking behind the library is the easiest option in the middle of the day.
Lane Cove sends a particular mix of problems through the door. There are the desk-and-commute necks and low backs from St Leonards and the city, the shoulders and elbows of a suburb that plays a lot of tennis, and the knees and Achilles tendons that come with living on a hillside — the stairs down to Tambourine Bay and the streets off Burns Bay Road are their own kind of training load. Lane Cove also has a lot of people in their thirties and forties carrying small children, which is its own demand on a back.
A first appointment is mostly questions and movement testing: where the pain is, what makes it worse, what it stops you doing, and how it has behaved over weeks rather than days. From there you should leave knowing what is proposed, roughly how long it is expected to take, and what would mean changing the plan.
Worth bringing: any imaging or specialist letters you already have, a list of medications, and the shoes you actually walk or train in. If the pain is new and severe, follows a significant fall, or comes with numbness, weakness, fever or any change in bladder or bowel control, see a doctor first — that is a medical assessment, not a treatment question.
The nearest alternative if Lane Cove does not suit you is the Freshwater side, about 14 kilometres away across the Spit.
Seeing yourself in an article about borderline personality disorder can raise questions. Recognition is not a diagnosis, and a proper assessment may help.
Living with ongoing pain can bring intense emotions, strained relationships and moments of feeling rejected or misunderstood. Reading an article about borderline personality disorder might make you wonder whether it describes you. Recognising some experiences is understandable, but recognition is not the same as a diagnosis.
Strong emotions, relationship difficulties and fear of rejection can have many causes. Chronic pain, poor sleep, past experiences, stress and other mental health conditions can all play a part. A checklist cannot sort through those possibilities, and labelling yourself from an article may add worry without bringing clarity.
If the article resonated, write down specific examples. What happened, how did you feel and how did it affect your work, relationships or ability to cope with pain? These notes give a concrete basis for talking with Dr Christine Shen, Acupuncturist, whose qualifications include psychotherapy. Together you can consider whether seeing a mental health specialist for a formal assessment makes sense. Your GP can arrange a referral to a psychiatrist or psychologist for that assessment if appropriate.
The aim is to find appropriate support and understanding, not to decide your identity from a list or assume that one label explains every difficulty. You are more than any diagnosis, and you deserve care that responds to your whole situation, including pain.
What you care about most should steer the sessions. Consider which experiences you would most like to make sense of, which feel stubborn and what easier days might look like. Christine can explain how you will check in on progress and how to get help between sessions. If you ever feel unsafe or in crisis, contact emergency services or a crisis line immediately rather than waiting for an appointment.
A conversation at the Freshwater clinic can be a calm place to explore your questions and work out whether a specialist assessment should be part of your next steps.
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