Ben Crebert Psychology

02/10/2025

The hardest cases aren't the ones in the textbooks.

They're the ones where you feel something shift in your own body. Where the client's story touches something unresolved in you. Where you leave the session carrying weight you can't quite name.

This is the work beneath the work.

Last month, a supervisee shared: "I finally understand—it's not about having all the answers. It's about being able to stay present with not knowing."

That's the transformation I see again and again in supervision.

We don't just talk about interventions and treatment plans. We explore what happens in your nervous system when a client's trauma activates your own protective responses. We examine the moments when your theoretical knowledge can't reach the lived experience unfolding in real time.

Because your clients don't just need your clinical skills—they need you to be able to stay present when their pain is unbearable. To hold space when everything in you wants to fix, rescue, or retreat.

Here's what develops through experiential supervision:

• Recognising when your own process is interfering with the client's
• Somatic awareness of your therapeutic presence
• Trusting the wisdom of uncertainty and not-knowing
• Integrating Process Work principles into your relational approach
• Navigating complex trauma presentations with grounded confidence

Individual supervision, group supervision, EMDR consultation. Based in Maitland, available Australia-wide via telehealth.

Over 20 years of clinical experience. Board-approved supervisor.

The depth of healing you can facilitate is directly connected to the depth of presence you can embody.

Ready to explore supervision? Book a free 15-minute chat to see if we're a good fit.

Visit: bencrebertpsychology.com.au/supervision



https://bencrebertpsychology.com.au/supervision/

02/10/2025

You don't have to figure it out alone.

That complex case keeping you awake at 2am. The client whose presentation doesn't fit the diagnostic boxes. The moment in session when you felt completely out of your depth and somehow had to keep holding space.

I get it. I've been there.

Here's what I've learned over 20+ years: the most powerful professional development doesn't happen in isolation. It happens in connection with colleagues who understand the weight of this work.

That's why group supervision is transformative.

Not just because you get expert guidance (though you do—Board-approved supervisor, EMDR consultant in training, Process Work-trained).

But because you discover you're not the only one:

→ Doubting yourself after a difficult session
→ Wrestling with countertransference that won't resolve
→ Feeling the weight of vicarious trauma
→ Navigating the gap between theory and the messy reality of human suffering

One supervisee recently said: "I thought I was the only one struggling with this. Hearing others share similar experiences changed everything."

In group supervision, we create a space where:

• Your uncertainty is welcomed, not judged
• Complex cases are explored through multiple lenses
• You develop your therapeutic presence alongside colleagues who get it
• Process Work principles help you trust what's emerging in real time
• Professional isolation transforms into genuine collegial support

The work we do is demanding. It asks us to hold what others cannot bear. To stay present when everything pulls us toward disconnection.

You don't have to carry that alone.

Group supervision spaces available (Maitland and online). Individual supervision also offered.

Want to explore if group supervision is right for you? Book a free 15-minute conversation.

Visit: bencrebertpsychology.com.au/supervision

If you’re ready to take your clinical skills to the next level, I offer specialised supervision in:

28/09/2025

So looking forwards to this great opportunity to share process oriented psychology with colleagues near and far. If you are interested in learning about this integrative awareness model of therapy and facilitation join me in person or online. See links below.

This Wednesday, 1st of October, our Modalities in Maitland special interest group will be meeting online and at for ’s presentation of Process-Oriented Psychology.

Ben Crebert is a Clinical Psychologist with over 20 years of experience pioneering integrative approaches in mental health practice. Based in Maitland and serving clients across Australia, Ben specializes in weaving together diverse therapeutic modalities to create comprehensive, personalized treatment approaches.

Registration is available to all Mental Health Professionals at: https://mhpn.org.au/members/ #/Network/97487

15/09/2025

03/09/2025

After 20+ years as a psychologist, I've learned something important: clients don't heal in sterile environments. They heal in relationships where they feel genuinely seen and met in their full humanity.
The myth of the "neutral therapist" is being gently challenged by evidence, experience, and evolving professional wisdom.

Exploring this further in my latest piece: https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/when-dreams-disrupt-professional-certainty-part-2-myth-ben-crebert-n3khc/?trackingId=hyE0HqYoSM2hXF9h9WjpSQ%3D%3D

Following on from my recent article and post about the river dream and relational learning in supervision, I want to explore how this connects to one of the most persistent myths in our profession: therapeutic neutrality. Sometimes the most profound therapeutic moments happen when we dare to be huma

02/09/2025

"I can see the father in you right now," I said to my client. "There's something about the way you're holding this that tells me how much you care."
His shoulders dropped. His breathing deepened. For the first time in weeks, he wasn't alone.
Sometimes the most healing moments happen when we dare to be authentically human in our work.
Read more about challenging the myth of therapeutic neutrality: https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/when-dreams-disrupt-professional-certainty-part-2-myth-ben-crebert-n3khc/?trackingId=hyE0HqYoSM2hXF9h9WjpSQ%3D%3D

Following on from my recent article and post about the river dream and relational learning in supervision, I want to explore how this connects to one of the most persistent myths in our profession: therapeutic neutrality. Sometimes the most profound therapeutic moments happen when we dare to be huma

25/08/2025

In my therapy room, I see successful people struggling with the same relational patterns that show up in our broader society.

Men who've learned to compete but not connect. Women who've learned to accommodate but not advocate. The personal is political - and healing happens in relationship.

But here's what's haunting me: After my last blog post about masculinity and the "backdraft" of unspoken pain in men, I was met with silence. Not indifference—but a complicated quiet that spoke volumes about how perilous these conversations have become.

In that silence, I heard the ghosts we don't talk about: the scripts that say "real men don't show pain," the fear of being misunderstood, the exhaustion on all sides of this cultural divide.

My new blog post, "Into the Fire," explores:

• Why the silence around masculinity conversations is so loaded
• The pain carried by both men's rights advocates AND feminists
• How therapeutic work reveals the backdraft pressure in families and relationships
• An invitation for deeper, more curious dialogue beyond our usual camps

This isn't about taking sides—it's about understanding the relational wounds that create the very patterns I see in my therapy room daily. The isolation, the defensive posturing, the inability to be vulnerable without shame.

If these themes resonate with you:
🔗 Read "Into the Fire": https://bencrebertpsychology.com.au/into-the-fire-exploring-masculinity-between-backdraft-and-renewal/
📞 Individual therapy: For men ready to move beyond stoicism into authentic connection. For women ready to find their voices and move into courageous connection.
💑 Couples therapy: For relationships caught in these inherited patterns
📱 Book a consultation: 0435 436 757

The change we want to see in the world starts with the courage to sit in the fire of difficult conversations—and the relational skills to do it safely.

What fires are you sensing in your own relationships or community? I'm genuinely curious.

19/08/2025

Okay, this might sound a bit strange, but...
I've been hesitant to share this, but a dream I had during our recent floods here in Maitland has been working on me for weeks.
I was fishing with a family member who kept transforming before my eyes, and somehow our boat was both floating on and submerged under the water. We were standing in this impossible space together, and it felt... completely natural.
I keep wondering if I'm reading too much into it, but this dream seems to be teaching me something about my work that I never learned in any textbook. About how the deepest learning happens not through instruction, but through... presence and connection with nature. Through being willing to stand in spaces that don't quite make sense.
It's making me question some of my assumptions about what "professional" means. Sometimes I think we therapists get so focused on doing things "right" that we miss what wants to emerge naturally.
I'm still processing this. Anyone else ever had dreams that shifted how you see your work?



Aerial View of Fisherman on Boat
By fabien pasquet from Pexels

14/08/2025

Enjoy yourself more fully! The world truly is better with you in it! ✨

Being yourself isn’t a destination—it’s a constant process of emergence, a dynamic experience that unfolds moment by moment.

When people experience the unique kind of attention that emerges in therapy, something beautiful happens: self-trust, self-expression, and self-love begin to emerge spontaneously. A deeper form of wholeness reveals itself.

People discover more courage, more conviction, more access to the qualities, beliefs, and capabilities they already carry within them.

If you need more support with living your life more fully, I’d love to meet with you and explore what wants to emerge in your own journey.

11/08/2025

Enjoying your life is important. Finding ways to make life more enjoyable is a kind of act of deep self love. It is a deeply spiritual act - in my view. And it allows for greater acts of service. It is also an act of resistance to the kinds of forces that emerge within and also without. Forces that sound like “be productive!” ( in a particular way ) In my view true productivity comes through presence and attunement, it’s something that is connected to a kind of communion with my intentions and the forces of nature that envelope me. On one level this morning I’ve had some body work, with my amazing Chiro or Hunter Healthy spines, followed by a cup of coffee at one of the fabulous coffee houses here in Maitland, listened to a lecture from one of the many mentors I study with done some admin and am about to edit up a few articles that I’ve been working on…. Now the list looks long and it is… but the feeling behind it all is the thing that’s driving it….

08/08/2025

The flames you see outside? They're just reflecting what's burning within. 🔥
External conflicts in our relationships are mirrors of our internal landscape. When we're at war with ourselves - with our shame, our inner critic, our unhealed parts - it shows up in how we connect (or disconnect) with others.
The repair work isn't just about fixing what happened between us. It's about tending to what's happening inside us first.
What inner conflict is asking for your attention today? 💭