Humane Clinic Psychotherapy Collective

04/09/2026

WORLD HEARING VOICES DAY - Monday 14th September 2026
12 -3pm

Just Listening Therapeutic Community is hosting an event and you are invited.

To celebrate world hearing voices day we will come together with a small program:

🫂 12-1pm - Hearing Voices and alternative realities group ( for people experience voices and alternate realities)

🌭1-2 pm - Sausage sizzle and time to connect
(All welcome)

📚 2-3pm - Introduction to the hearing voices approach talk
(All welcome)

The event is free - donations to Just Listening are welcome.

Humane Clinic Psychotherapy Collective
Mental Health Commissioner for South AustraliaLived Experience Telephone Support Service - Adelaide Metro

11/08/2026

Amazing to see people follow their dreams and vision and to build community, especially for the generations beyond.
Amazing first year- congratulations 💗

31/07/2026

21/07/2026

19/07/2026

Psychotherapy may not be the transactional monetized mental health industry model that we see in Australia. It may just be more about intention, philosophy and love and human connection, more than anything else.

From What is Psychotherapy (Mary Duhig, 2005):

When I consider the question ‘What is Psychotherapy’, at least fifty more questions flood into my mind, each of which deserves a consideration in its own right!

What is psychotherapy for? Who does it? Why? How is it done? What are the expectations on the part of the psychotherapist? On the part of the client? Is it for making people happy or less unhappy? For adjusting us so that we can cope with society as it is: teaching us to be realistic? Is it for solving problems; for sorting out our motives; for making ourselves comprehensible to ourselves: to others too, perhaps; for removing blocks to our energy, chips on our shoulders so that we can live and act in a more enjoyable way, or live and act in the world more effectively? Is it out of interest, natural curiosity? Is it voyeuristic, navel regarding? Is it to explore the dynamics of our psyche? Is it to make sense of good and evil; to go beyond good and evil; to find a meaning in this strange world we inhabit? And what if the world seems a terrible place? So terrifying that you hardly dare move.

What if you think that everyone out there is out to get you? What if people tell you that you are deluded and you don’t believe them? What if you know you are utterly bad, a stinking hulk of rotting flesh? What if you can not believe anyone who tells you that you are loved or lovable?

17/07/2026

Sept 2025 - June 2026

Some stories of what the journey of a Just Listening Therapeutic Community looks like.

The Just Listening Therapeutic Community provides a unique environment to offer justice in listening through one-to-one support, daily group sessions, and a space for community connection. The Just Listening Therapeutic Community is open to those currently accessing or not accessing other mental health services and to those seeking alternative approaches to understanding and managing their experiences.

☀️Services provided at JLTC
+ Open 10am - 4pm weekdays.
+ Walk in services - no appointments required.
+ One to one appointments.
+ Just Listening Groups.
+ Community spaces - people to spend as much time as they
choose connecting with others.

📊Numbers attending 43 weeks (Sept 2025 - June 2026)
+ 980 visits.
+ Average 22.5 visits per week.
+ Averaging 3 new people to the Community each week.
+ 440 individual listening sessions.
+ 120 groups.
+ 1440 hours of support.

🏵️Core groups of community presentations:
+ People experiencing psychosis.
+ People experiencing su***de.
+ People with relationship problems.
+ Homeless and vulnerably housed people.
+ Families and friends of people in distress.
+ People Lonely and isolated in society.
+ People Not able to access services.
+ People on treatment orders or threatened with treatment orders.
+ People tapering / exploring tapering from medication.

🥰Main referral intentions
+ Service not available elsewhere and staff unskilled or
un-resourced to offer.
+ Inpatients who take leave from the ward as feeling unsupported/
isolated in hospital.
+ Support in psychotic and suicidal experiences not available
elsewhere.
+ Hospital avoidance/alternative.
+ Access Anonymous service to speak without fear from services.
+ Isolation in life event difficulties -
+ Included in discharge planning as one of service to support
person.

The list of referrers is extraordinary, and we are grateful for all who let people know about Just Listening 🙏🙏🙏

If you feel like change from the industry models is required, we recommend just going for it. The industry will not wait or support you.

17/07/2026

'Su***de: A different understanding -a different conversation with Matt Ball'

Last public talk for while😀

Exploring suicidal distress through listening and human compassion rather than prediction, risk assessment and pathology.

Su***de Narratives places su***de as a meaningful and understandable Dissociachotic position and offers a humane, compassionate response from one human to another, acknowledging that either person could experience both positions namely suicidal and / or the most useful human to the another in a moment of distress.

https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/su***de-a-different-understanding-a-different-conversation-with-matt-ball-tickets-1991448010608

Just Listening Therapeutic Community Mentally Fit EP Mind Australia Mental Health Australia Mental Health Awareness Hub Su***de Prevention Australia South Eastern Su***de Prevention Network Seaford Rotary Seaside Walk