While cognitive insight into the causes of emotional distress has value, intellectual understanding is rarely sufficient to prevent recurrence. Clinical observations suggest that unprocessed emotions tend to persist in the body, often manifesting as physical symptoms or a sense of being "stuck."
By practising mindfulness—the ability to observe your present-moment experience without judgement or avoidance—emotions can be attended to calmly and allowed to pass through the body. This approach often achieves superior results for psychosomatic presentations compared to purely analytical or talk-based therapies.
Unlike conventional 'talk therapy', this approach is body-oriented and experiential. We pay close attention to how your body registers the mental and emotional impacts of your life, then find kind ways to allow the felt sense of those patterns to become less intense and easier to manage.
Yes. For those wanting to decrease or stop certain medications, I provide an evidence-based, graded, and supervised approach to de-prescibing medication which is no longer suitable and ensure your transition has minimal withdrawal symptoms and effective.
No. I will not give you advice on what decisions to make or tell you how to think. My role is to provide a non-judgemental guidance for you to find your own solutions and learn from your own experience what works for you.
This is exactly where the mindfulness approach excels. We work to undo the deep emotional and thought patterns that drive your behaviour, moving beyond intellectual "knowing" into gradual and actual changes.
Dr Nicholas Bassal began a professional international psychotherapy training in 2005 which lasted six years. This proved pivotal in improving his effectiveness with psychosomatic presentations and has significantly improved clinical outcomes for his patients over the last two decades.