Mr John Bacash
Psychologist, Counselling Psychologist
John Bacash
Kilmore , Kilmore VIC 3764
In Person + Telehealth
Philosophy & Vision
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. This awareness creates space to exercise faith.
Background
40 years a trained counsellor. 20 years in private and corporate practice.
Wide experience helping individuals in particular deal with anxiety, depression, relationship and existential or life-pathway issues.
Services
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. There is no judgement about relevance of the awareness consciously linking the awareness back to the question: what do I ?
Quality Provision
Registered Psychologist adhering to the regulations of the Psychologists' Registration Board of Australia and the Australian Psychological Society. Full member of the College of Counselling Psychology.
Areas of Special Interest
Accreditations
- Bachelor of Arts - 1996 - University of Melbourne
- Grad Dip in Counselling Psychology - 1998 - Charles Sturt
- Certs. in Relationship & Motivational Interviewing
- Certs. in Emotion Focused & Trauma Debrief Therapy
- Full Member APS College of Counselling Psychology - 2009
Modalities
Emotionally Focused Therapy - Experiential - Freudian - Gestalt - Jungian - Meditation - Mindfulness - Object Relations - Psychoanalytic - Psychodynamic
Therapy Approach
Mindfulness practise creating space to exercise faith in yourself and your future.
Trauma Counselling and Critical Incident Debriefing, Person Centred Therapy, Solution focused therapy, Trait and type Jungian therapy
Motivational interviewing, Psycho-dynamic therapy.
Professional Associations
- Australian Psychological Society
Practice Locations
Kilmore Medical Centre
36-38 Melbourne Street
Kilmore VIC 3764
Parking available on premises.
Seymour VIC 3660
Appointments
Day, Evening and Weekends.
Fees & Insurance
$145 per one hour session
Private Health rebates
Medicare rebates
Bulk Billing is available to low income earners
and Pension card holders
Payment Options
Cash, Eftpos and Hicaps
Medicare and Private Health rebates processed and refunded to your account on site.
Contact John
Please contact me for more information
A conversation with John Bacash
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I believe in service and compassion as a way of being which gives back to me as much as I give to others.
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Existentialism Psychoanalysis, Object Relations Band Therapies, Phenomenology, St Paul's Theology.
My philosophical approach is that we all seek transcendence. We all seek our freedom and independence but we need to negotiate that with others. -
I am interested in discernment between creative and destructive instincts as a pathway to negotiating freedom while one is fully engaged with others.
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Psychoanalytical, Jungian profiling, Critical incident debriefing, Person Centred therapy.
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Ideally a client will feel a greater sense of what they can reasonably expect of themselves and others.
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Therapy has given me back my life. It set me free of prejudice and fixed ideas about how creativity happens. It helps me not buckle under pressure and it helps me turn adversity into opportunity.
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Helping others be free.
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All the time, but I don't get taken in by them. I break free through faith and openness.
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We see the cost of things and not their value.
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Rudyard Kipling's poem "IF"
If you can keep your head when all about you
Are losing theirs and blaming it on you,
If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you,
But make allowance for their doubting too;
If you can wait and not be tired by waiting,
Or being lied about, don't deal in lies,
Or being hated, don't give way to hating,
And yet don't look too good, nor talk too wise:
If you can dreamâ€"and not make dreams your master;
If you can thinkâ€"and not make thoughts your aim;
If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster
And treat those two impostors just the same;
If you can bear to hear the truth you've spoken
Twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools,
Or watch the things you gave your life to, broken,
And stoop and build 'em up with worn-out tools:
If you can make one heap of all your winnings
And risk it on one turn of pitch-and-toss,
And lose, and start again at your beginnings
And never breathe a word about your loss;
If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew
To serve your turn long after they are gone,
And so hold on when there is nothing in you
Except the Will which says to them: “Hold on!â€
If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue,
Or walk with Kingsâ€"nor lose the common touch,
If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you,
If all men count with you, but none too much;
If you can fill the unforgiving minute
With sixty seconds' worth of distance run,
Yours is the Earth and everything that's in it,
Andâ€"which is moreâ€"you'll be a Man, my son!
Published Articles
The purpose of the exercise
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