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Hearing Voices

What is the Hearing Voices approach?
Hearing Voices is often an intense, intrusive experience. The voices often have no apparent external source but feel as if they come from someone or something else. Typically labelled as auditory hallucinations, voices are often dismissed without consideration of their potential meaning or value.

Hearing Voices is a movement, theorhetical construct, and practice approach that has been developed over the last 40 years. It includes the Maastricht interview, voice profiling, support groups, and talking with voices. The approach supports people to develop understanding of the origin of voices, and to develop new relationships towards living with or without voices.


Humane Clinic Psychotherapy Collective approach to voices
At Humane Clinic Psychotherapy Collective our approach builds on the Hearing Voices movement model. We support voice hearers to find acceptance and meaning in the experience. Our approach helps to change the relationship both with the voices and the difficulties that voices represent. In this manner voice hearers can live successfully whether the voices remain or not. Once distress related to voices reduces, therapy may focus on experiences of trauma, adversity, and survival.


For more information on the Hearing Voices approach around the world visit Intervoice.

Humane Clinic Psychotherapy Collective recognises that a person’s expression of distress, in whatever form it takes, is a function of communicating their needs. We consider each human being as the person best placed to be the arbiter of their own experiences, the author of their own story, and the leader of their own life journey. We seek to acknowledge your experiences, hear your story, and respect your autonomy.