At Humane Clinic, we are dedicated to providing  services through our Nurse Practitioner and Psychotherapy practice. Matt Ball offers psychotherapy, deprescribing, and consultancy, employing unique therapeutic frameworks: Dissociachotic framework, Just Listening and Suicide Narratives and psychodynamic and network based deprescribing approaches. 

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Engaging in therapeutic work at Humane Clinic provides the opportunity to encounter one another with the understanding of an existential imperative, that people need to tell others that they exist and can find a sense of safety in relating towards 

Psychotherapy may be considered an experience of the co-existing shared experience: An experience that recognise the shared experience of being with another person, understanding that we are having our own experience of one another and not falling in the narrative of both experiencing the world as the same, in doing so allowing us to exist, without fear, whilst sharing out unique realities towards discovering new ways of being in our social, spiritual and existential worlds. 

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The clinic is not engaged in work with mental health services, as this often means a person's choice and opportunity to define their own reality is compromised and limited. Whilst it may be the interest of a person to embrace a diagnostic label and be supported by Humane Clinic, the diagnostic label will not be a defining feature of the human that exploring their place in the world with other.

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Understanding any state of being as representing the way a person can be in the world with other, the work of Humane Clinic is founded in the concept of the Dissociachotic way of being. This principle understands all human expression as the way a person needs to be, in order to encounter relationship with another person. At its origin the approach has been observed in states that are often referred to as psychotic. Dissociachotic can be considered in all and every daily interaction and how people behave in ways that may or may not be described as psychotic, ut serve the same function to navigate human relationship in all its complexity. 

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"Accepting the vulnerability of the coexisting shared experience is an experience of the same threat to both the “psychotic” and “nonpsychotic” person. However, accepting and simply “being” in the relationship can facilitate each of the individuals to create the opportunity to self-define and self-determine a new perception of the reality of the shared insecurity and vulnerability. It is within the coexisting shared experience that the “psychotic” person can experience “non-psychosis,” and the other person can experience a genuine acceptance of the other person’s state, not as a “psychotic” disorder, but a unique and functional response to the often unspoken, unacknowledged coexisting shared vulnerability of all beings. The place of acceptance offers a glimpse of a “nonpsychotic” person’s own potential alternative reality—managing a sense of being in a liminal space."

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About Matt Ball

Within the psychotherapy relationship, Matt helps people develop an understanding of what a good life means in the context of their life events and relationships, and explores how relational psychotherapy can contribute to love and justice in the here and now. Initially trained in psychodynamic psychotherapy, he now integrates existential, Buddhist and humanistic approaches plus learnings from Indigenous concepts into his work.

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