Humane Clinic Psychotherapy Collective

02/12/2025

Hearing voices group today at 12 pm- 1 pm at the Just Listening Therapeutic Community.

No referral needed - just come along.

Humane Clinic Psychotherapy Collective

02/12/2025

We welcome you to come and share your narrative in a just process

Professional therapeutic Support through Just Listening including:

1-1 | Groups | Community

Open Daily 10am - 4pm

No appointment or referral required. Walk-In. Immediate support.

29 Shepherd Road, Christies Beach 5165

Humane Clinic Psychotherapy Collective

29/11/2025

Really interesting video about ECT (Electroconvulsive Therapy).

For those on this platform:

Did you know, ECT is highly prevalent as a 'treatment' still - that is anaesthetising a person and relaxing muscles before sending electrical currents into a person's brain?

Did you know about the far reaching impacts and harms reported?

Did you know that the impacts and harms are often played down?

Did you know that there is no research based placebo controlled evidence since 1985 to support claims of the benefit of ECT in depression?
(Read et al, 2025) https://lnkd.in/g8Yfjg56

Recently a team of researchers from the UK have published 5 papers from their recent international survey of people who have experienced ECT. The papers have been published in peer reviewed journals and paint a stark picture regarding lack of efficacy and increased knowledge on the harms caused.

The current narrative and associated propaganda in health services that deliver ECT do not include current evidence. People are forced to have ECT under the mental health act legislation. A good starting place on modern evidence is here: https://lnkd.in/g8Yfjg56

It really is time for an honest review in Australia and perhaps consider ceasing ECT until an evidence based and understanding of harm has been conducted.

From the video below, talking about the origins of ECT!

"In the 1930s, there was a theory that if you had schizophrenia, which is what ECT was introduced for, used mostly for depression now, but it was introduced for schizophrenia.
If you had schizophrenia, you couldn't have epilepsy, it was mutually exclusive. There's a lot of theories like that around. There was no truth to it,
but it was written in medical journals that if you had one, you couldn't have the other.
So therefore, they thought the cure for schizophrenia would be to cause epilepsy. At the same time, some people were trying to cure epilepsy
by injecting the blood of people diagnosed with schizophrenia into people with epilepsy. It was completely bonkers, but it was well-intentioned like
most medical theories are. And then the task became, how do we cause seizures?
And they tried many different things like insulin coma, so pumping up high levels of insulin into people until they went into a coma.
Eventually, they found that electricity would do the job, would cause convulsions, and they found that out by accident.
Two psychiatrists in Italy happened to see at a slaughterhouse pigs being
given electricity to numb them before they were killed, and they would saw
them go into a sort of convulsion. So they thought they tried it on a human being. And that's the history of ECT. Looking back, it's obviously a ridiculous
theory. And the bizarre thing is that we're still doing it 80 years later."

Thank you John Read Lucy Johnstone and other team members for your incredible and inpactful work on ECT.

https://youtu.be/bGxOtZ4dEKE

In this episode, I'm talking with professor John Read (University of East London) about the evidence base and the consequences of ECT .This is the first epis...

29/11/2025

From Angie Peacock, MSW - Consultant & Coach in this paradigm-shifting conversation, Angie Peacock sits down with Australian nurse practitioner, psychotherapist, and lived-experience survivor Matt Ball for one of the most honest dialogues about mental health, psychosis, altered states, psychiatric drug withdrawal, and the future of healing”.

Grateful for the opportunity to connect with another person who
Is offering justice and love in human to human connection in being with any other who is working through their own journey.

Thank you so much Angie Peacock 🙏

In this paradigm-shifting conversation, Angie Peacock sits down with Australian nurse practitioner, psychotherapist, and lived-experience survivor Matt Ball ...

29/11/2025

Change is already in place and happening 🥰👇

Humane Clinic Psychotherapy Collective therapists are pleased to have worked on the research and design of what is now offered at JLTC for the last 8 years🙏

19/11/2025

The very beautiful humane space of Just Listening Therapeutic Community is available weekdays 10am - 4pm

Free

Walk in service

No referral required

Being in an altered state, hearing voices, having beliefs others dismiss as not real or a 'psychotic disorder' can be distressing in itself.

Just Listening Therapeutic Community offers a place of shelter and humane connection to those who experience voices, visions or other phenomena that people often call psychosis.

Open 10am - 4pm weekdays

Walk in service - no referral or booking required.

You will be offered immediate connection (no wait times) and can access community, group session or 1-1 support when you visit.

Just Listening Therapeutic Community is an alternative to going to the Emergency Dept if you wish to remain autonomous in your pathway to recovery and healing.

If you or someone you love experiences psychosis and would like a different approach, an approach based in professional therapeutic supports around connection, making meaning and sense of the experience and a place where you can freely express and explore your reality, we would welcome you to Just Listening.

The blow image is from the paper 'Dissociachotic: Seeing the Non-Psychosis We Share', a published and accepted concept that is at the heart of the Just Listening approach.

Mental Health Commissioner for South AustraliaChris Picton MP Adelaide PHN

18/11/2025

Such a beautiful start to the week at Just Listening, as we have had many wonderful humans come and create community.

Today I used the service myself. I was not working at JLTC today but did arrive to share what was on my mind. Such a special experience of being listened to in a just, compassionate and humane way.

Wednesday:

Just Listening Therapeutic Community open 10am -4pm

Hearing Voices and altered states group - 12 - 1pm

Connection, compassion and professional therapeutic space - all through the day.

If finding an alternative or different approach would be of value to you, please do visit the Just Listening Therapeutic Community.
You will be welcomed and offered human connection from the moment you arrive.

If emergency depts, other mental health supports are providing what you need or you want something in addition to current supports then JLTC is for you - Free to access, no referral needed, immediate community available and anonymous if required.

We welcome all community members but especially those in altered states, often called psychosis, as a place of shelter and community.

💚💚💚

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04/11/2025

Altered states or 'psychosis' are always written about in the MH industry as states that should be changed or got rid of. This reductionist position only exists in century old constructs that have served the discourse of those in moral authority.

Whenever I read on LinkedIn or other sites about psychosis, there is an underlying, even when not overt, sense that 'we just know' about psychosis. This is disempowering and at odds with the rhetoric of compassionate modern discourse of shiny organisations.

Imagine the emancipation, responsibility and freedom that would be available to all if we could shift from the underlying, unsubstantiated religious style ideology about psychosis.

In reality we might observe and value the following reality:

'There is a need for a paradigm shift that sees an alternative reality as a primary function to resist nihilation, rather than being classified as an illness. This allows us not to have “goals” or consider “treatment” and allows the person to be seen as functionally responding to unconscious threat of nihilation. It places the “psychotic” person as having the same basic human insecurity, and response, that is shared and navigated by all beings...

Interconnectedness, that occurs through the process of growth within a loving, nongoal–orientated relationship, leads to a negation of the need for an altered state to exist to defend the threat of nihilation in the person experiencing “psychosis,” and the person in a “nonpsychotic” state to resist the attempt to change the legitimate reality the other person is experiencing. The ensuing changes to the liminal space occupied by a person said to be in a “psychotic” state, when being together in a coexisting same experience, can lead to mutual growth and the evaporation of the so labelled “psychotic” state. This demonstrates the “psychotic” experience is more consistent with a dissociative response to threat in relationship and could be reframed as a “Dissociachotic”—a form of dissociation that has been mislabelled as a unique condition of “psychosis” due to its specific representation of creating safety for a person experiencing threat in relationship.' (Ball & Picot, 2023)

04/11/2025

Just Listening is a relational non-medical therapeutic approach, which emphasizes human connection

Open today and each weekday 10am - 4pm

If you, or someone you love, would value connection, compassion and professional support in a moment of isolation, distress or crisis this free service is available today - No appointment needed, just walk in for immediate support.

We especially welcome those in psychotic or suicidal distress - come and find compassionate connection.

We provide an alternative to other mental health supports.

29 Shepherd Road, Christies beach 5165

Humane Clinic Psychotherapy Collective

02/11/2025

Be welcomed in moments of distress, need for connection or any important narrative to be shared.

Be welcomed when you arrived and welcomed to return as often as you need.

Professional therapeutic support in community.

Just Listening Therapeutic Community:

Open Weekdays 10am - 4pm

Free - No referral needed - Walk in

This is a different approach 💚💚💚

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02/11/2025

We are preparing to share more information about the Just Listening: World Hearing Voices Congress - Noarlunga, South Australia 13-15th Sept 2026.

We have locked in some beautiful humans to come and be part of hosting the space and just checking with a few more that they can come and join us. From US, Europe, Australia and hopefully further afield.

As we prepare to facilitate a community for 3 days seeking to offer justice to each voice and narrative, we are reflecting on the non pathologising / non mental health system wisdom that is inherent in the Hearing Voices experience.

From the paper 'Hearing Voices' (1987): The congress itself was held in a large labor union meeting building not connected physically or administratively to any psychiatric or even medical institution."

Hearing Voices is a common human experience. In recent years, hearing voices approaches have become entwined in MH industry money in Australia. Congress in 2026 will invite all and anyone, but with a focus on hearing voices not being a symptom or sign of any illness, but a narrative that represents a common human reality that any one of us might experience.

More info to be released soon 💚💚💚. Hope to see you in 2026.

Australian Hearing Voices Network Intervoice: The International Hearing Voices Movement Humane Clinic Psychotherapy Collective

31/10/2025

'Love not Labels'

If you would like to be met as an equal human in your community, especially in times of distress, we would welcome you to visit Just Listening Therapeutic Community.

Perhaps you know the experience of hearing voices or other realities that are often referred to as psychosis? You would be welcome here to come and be listened to in justice and compassion. Perhaps you know a wonderful human who knows this distress and would like a compassionate response?

Therapeutic Community can be understood to acknowledge the value in all people who are present contributing to the wellbeing of one another. It is a different approach to mental health.

This professional led service is available:

10am-4pm Weekdays

Walk in - No appointment needed

No referral required

Anonymous if you prefer

No wait times

Immediate connection

29 Beach Road, Christies Beach 5165.

This service is provided free thanks to the generous support of people in our community.

Chris Picton MP Mental Health Commissioner for South Australia Adelaide PHN Human Services SA Christie Downs Community House Hackham West Community Centre Amanda Rishworth MP City of Onkaparinga fans
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