Humane Clinic Psychotherapy Collective

15/04/2026

Just Listening is a practical and philosophical approach that supports people in distress and strengthens relationships by offering justice through listening.  

15/04/2026

Our Hearing Voices & Alternative Realities Group is on today and every Wednesday 12-1pm.
Free, confidential and no booking or referral needed.

A space for connection for anyone who has experiences of hearing voices or altered states.
You are very welcome to join us.

Running locally for 5 years, as part of a global approach with over 35 years of history.

See poster for details or get in touch

13/04/2026

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Just Listening Therapeutic Community Is open weekdays 10am - 4pm

12/04/2026

30/03/2026

26/03/2026

📣 ANNOUNCEMENT

Just Listening Therapeutic Community will be closed Monday 30th March - Friday 10th April 2026

The community will re-open on Monday 13th April 2026 at 10am.

We look forward to welcoming you 💚

Mental Health Commissioner for South Australia Seaford Rotary Seaside Walk Lived Experience Telephone Support Service - Adelaide Metro

22/03/2026

Just Listening Therapeutic Community tries to offer a space that is value to the person sharing their story and to the listener. It is a community.

We do not see the two people as fundamentally different in the nature of being human.

If Just Listening Therapeutic Community could be a space of value for you in distress or seeking connection for any reason you would be welcome:

Open today 10am - 4pm and each week day

Free service - no referral required - anonymous if useful

If you would like to be listened to and valued as a wonderful human, regardless and including the distress that you might experience, then Just Listening Therapeutic Community might be a place you could visit.

The side effect of coming and inviting a person to listen to you is that the listener might find value in the experience as well - not often side effects feel so mutually valuable.

Welcome to Just Listening Therapeutic Community

19/03/2026

Open today:
10am - 4pm
29 Shepherd Road
Christies Beach 5165

You are welcome to visit.
Free - Walk in - No referral needed.

Humane Clinic Psychotherapy Collective

18/03/2026

Humane Clinic is excited to bring the rare opportunity to attend a public Just Listening training. The Just Listening appraoch serves as a foundation of practice in supporting any person experiencing emotional distress.

The immersive workshop will be delivered in-person over over 2 days, and combines theory, reflection and practice to foster compassion, community and human connection.

Just Listening training - public workshop

A rare public training in Just Listening approach being offered in person at Christies Beach. Sat 21st March & Tues 24th March (2 days)

15/03/2026

Today, we are super grateful to the philanthropists, volunteers and staff that have supported Just Listening Therapeutic Community to be open and available to the public.
[Open weekdays 10am-4pm)

Just Listening Therapeutic Community is a community-based offering for humans seeking connection away from the mental health industry led models.

A few interesting facts and realities from the Just Listening Therapeutic Community data in the first 5 months of being open 5 days per week.

It is easy to look for high numbers, but sometime the lowest numbers are valuable to consider:

🌟ZERO🌟

🧩The number of times police or ambulance services were required at Just Listening Community (over 6 years)

🧩Total and average number of hours people waiting for service upon arrival (‘ramping’)

💵Total number of $ SA government invest in alternatives that provide better value for money and more compassion in MH

It is really important to consider the cost effective, and more importantly, humane and compassionate possibilities given:
1. The crisis and chaos of accessing mental health support here in SA.
2. The clamber of professional groups and unions to say mental health settings are unsafe for staff and focus on staff before the people in suffering seeking support.
3. Increasing number of inhumane treatment of people in psychotic and suicidal states of distress and being (increasing seclusion, restraints, over medicated, ECT, mental health act orders https://s3-ap-southeast-2.amazonaws.com/sahealth-ocp-assets/general-downloads/Chief-Psychiatrist-Annual-Report-2024-25-2.pdf)

If you would like to donate and support the Just Listening Therapeutic Community you can do so here: https://gofund.me/2380cf562

But more than money, you could share the availability of Just Listening Therapeutic Community here in Chrisites Beach, SA so that people can find out about and access this different approach to being human (that we often call mental health). 🧡💚🧡💚

Also, you could list other non-pathologizing services that are not underpinned by risk models, as humane resources, in the comments 🙏

14/03/2026

Bespoke small group workshop in Just Listening
Sat 21st and Tues 24th March

Just Listening training - public workshop https://www.eventbrite.com.au/e/just-listening-training-public-workshop-tickets-1984941070174?utm-campaign=social&utm-content=attendeeshare&utm-medium=discovery&utm-term=listing&utm-source=wsa&aff=ebdsshwebmobile

A rare public training in Just Listening approach being offered in person at Christies Beach. Sat 21st March & Tues 24th March (2 days)

12/03/2026

JUST LISTENING THERAPEUTIC COMMUNITY - SNAPSHOT

(Please read and share throughout your networks and communities)

Change is possible.
It is possible to spend less money and have more compassionate and effective services.
It is possible to advertise and deliver the same service.

The barriers to change are broad and diverse, but have roots in guild (professional groups) and political needs as well as the challenge of the narrative that has 'always been this way'.

Just Listening Therapeutic Community planned to deliver an 'emergency alternative' and ongoing therapeutic input for /7 of the national statistics data. And we have demonstrated that.

How do we know this?
Because we have stated the service we will offer, we have delivered that service now collated a little data about the first 5 months of the Just Listening Therapeutic Community to demonstrate it.

A few highlights - See below image for stats

💚 694 visits in 120 days

💚 815 hours of services delivered to individuals

💚 ZERO calls to emergency services

💚 ZERO hours or minutes of waiting of ramping.

💵 $60,000 AUD over 5 months

💵 $86 - coast per visitor compared to SA ED presentation per visit $741

Change is possible. Please read and consider data. Change is happing at Just Listening Therapeutic Community.

What is the service?

Just Listening Therapeutic Community offers professional support for individuals experiencing:

Psychosis

Suicidal distress

Other emotional distress

What is provided:
The community is psychotherapeutically informed, led by professionals and supported by trained volunteers:
One-to-one connection - Psychotherapy groups - Community space.

Scope of project delivery:
Any member of public may access service - person in distress and/or family.
Open 5 days per week (except public holidays and Christmas/Easter break).
Providing alternative to Emergency, hospital or community healthcare.
People can visit as often as required.
Demonstrate viable alternative to emergency depts and ongoing therapeutic support for those in psychotic, suicidal or other distress.
Service is free to access - No referral or booking required - Anonymous service.

Cost of service (annual):
Staffing of Therapeutic Community (direct operational cost) - $125,000 - Donation

Staff of volunteer Support costs (direction operational cost) - $20,000 - Donation

Administration - fund raising / In kind volunteer hours

(*Humane Clinic is providing Just Listening psychotherapy training course to train volunteers - Funded by Donation

from philanthropic foundation)

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(Just Listening (Just Listening Australia) is one of the vast array of alternatives that could be provided, as identified in the ReAwaken Australia Manifesto for Compassionate Change (https://www.yumpu.com/en/document/read/63014176/reawaken-ebook-1st-ed/17), a document developed at international gathering ReAwaken Australia hosted by Humane Clinic Psychotherapy Collective)