Mindfulness practise helps us to disengage from being consumed and compelled by the question: What am I supposed to do now? Mindfulness practise involves simply identifying our body / felt response in the very moment of feeling confronted by a perceived threat. A perceived threat moment can be the blank-bored eyes of a seemingly disinterested child if you are a teacher or parent. It can be the rejecting stare of a lover or employer in flight. Mindfulness practise involves awareness of one’s body felt response in that perceived-threat moment without recourse to usefulness. It is just awareness for its own sake. Therefore, there is no judgement about relevance of the awareness consciously linking the awareness back to the question: what do I do now? Mindfulness creates a space for your unconscious sense of safety and common sense to inform action in that nothingness or no-agenda space.

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I am a member of the Australian Psychological Society (APS), including the APS College of Counselling Psychology, since 2009. I have been practising as a psychologist for almost 30 years, specialising in crisis management. During this time, I have treated 4-6,000 people in crisis.

I specialise in: Psychoanalytically - oriented deconstruction of the verbatim of a client’s narrative and mindfulness Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) practices, including daily meditation practice and focusing work to facilitate what Dr Marsha Linehan, the founder of Dialectical Behaviour Therapy (DBT), calls Wise Mind. That is, creating a space to exercise faith in oneself and one’s future. In short, the model can be summarised as Mindfulness, Openness and Faith ( in oneself to act creatively in the moment).

I prefer to treat people in the short term up to 6 – 10 sessions via a Mental Health Care Plan (MHCP) but in saying that I have about 20 long-term clients that have been seeing me for 5-15 years. They come and go when they are in a crisis or not coping. I take a lot of pride in the work I do. I genuinely care for the clients I work with and want them to make the right decisions during a crisis. I have been on my own personal journey through various psychotherapies, along with my studies in European philosophy and theology. I have developed strong convictions about the futility of some modern treatment approaches.

After 30 years of practising, I would say I am most in line with Dr Patricia Crittenden’s Dynamic Maturational Model. One of her basic assumptions is that there is no such thing as a secure attachment/relationship. Instead, she believes there are negotiated connections from early childhood till old age, as such, as a treating psychologist, my commitment is to prioritise this premise.

Most clients in crisis present with dysfunctional and self-sabotaging ways of understanding and negotiating their work and personal connections. My job is to: (a) Firstly, facilitate a resolution to their crisis that is creative and safe for all parties. A psychological approach that assumes there is such a thing as a secure attachment/relationship and imposes that construct on a client is promoting more anxiety and depression and self-sabotaging because the approach is maladaptive to a dynamic crisis; and

(b) Secondly, understanding what to negotiate comes from deconstructed non-judgmental self- awareness of reactivity to options, not self-awareness derived from a construct. For example, a person may believe they have an inalienable right to say no to a proposal in a relationship. However, if a person acts out that belief or construct without a body/felt awareness of risk, they may be playing a game of chance with their relationship .

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John Bacash Psychologist

The ability to be present is often challenged by maladaptive coping modes, which can stand in the way of our ability to adapt to a situational crisis

Mantra-based meditation is a method for therapeutic self-induced trance work or involuntary absorption. It works by breaking the triggered link between a trauma-based attachment and a maladaptive coping mode. This approach helps us stay present in the moment, be self-aware and avoid being consumed by overthinking.

I am a practitioner with 30 years of experience. I have helped disturbed and traumatised patients recover and adapt to a crisis in the moment. I use meditation and other evidence-based interventions

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John Bacash Counselling Psychologist

Fax: (03) 5792 1557
Email: jbacash@me.com

Telehealth: Available for clients Australia wide
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Website: https://www.johnbacash.com.au

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