Practice for Integrative Clinical Psychology & Authentic Change

04/08/2026

“…maybe reality is not directly accessible to us…” what this short real points to how we seem to “construct” different realities. However that doesn’t necessarily mean, that reality is a myriad different (constructed) viewpoints, but somehow the one thing we all share which exist prior to our construction”. Whatever that is would need require the stripping of these constructed viewpoints.

This is why mindfulness and meditation are essential: they allow the quietening of the construct and the sensing of something much more profound… maybe it is possible to experience reality directly… eastern philosophies suggesting this for thousands of years.

23/07/2026

The idea that depression is only a chemical balance in the brain, was planted…
Joanna Moncrieff is a psychiatrist who is critical of the common psycho-medical/psycho-pharmaceutical approach.

16/07/2026

My wife Jai Ram is an experienced yoga teacher and trainer who offers these courses at the psychology practice, a place we now call the “Beacon Hub”.

These are more than just yoga classes but invitation to explore how deep “being a woman” actually can go. It involves beside yoga, relaxation and meditation also talks and reflections about the profound and deeply psychological humanology of Kundalini Yoga and Karma Kriya.

Subtle Anatomy of a Woman
4 week intensive course
Kundalini Yoga teachings and practices

Mondays 6.30-8.30om
Beaconsfield & online
July 20th to Aug 10th

Every woman should know how incredible she is.

Being in the body of a woman is like living in a luxury vehicle. It’s full of features that you need to take time to understand in order to maximise your enjoyment.
… and to know what can go wrong.
It also needs tuning up and being cared for.

When you live it well, your spirit flows through you. And that’s what we want to feel in life. We don’t want life to feel mechanical. We want it to be spirited and inspired.

That requires some consciousness. And self-knowledge.

In Kundalini teachings, we say woman is a wow-man. Through her life is born, so she is endowed with super-sensitivity. And originality.

She can masterfully hold and connect multiple things at once and be subtle and intelligent about it.

She fluctuates cyclically, which makes her emotionally rich, deep and interesting!

And, living by her own authenticity, intuition and presence, she can ride the energy of these waves to victory.

Not only can she nourish. She can inspire and awaken. She can bless. She can change the atmosphere in a room and even change the course of someone’s destiny by her prayer.

These gifts must be claimed.

In this course you’ll learn about your experience and your potentials through understanding the specifics of your subtle, not just physiological, anatomy.

Each of the 4 classes we’ll have teachings (and at deeper levels for those repeating this course).

Then benefit from a good Kundalini Yoga and meditation practice that directly works on and uplifts the various layers of the subtle anatomy.

It’s hard to overstate how rich and vital all this is.

See you there. Link in comments.
🌹 Jai Ram

01/05/2026

the emergence and formation of new neural pathways.
This can also be an outcome of good psychotherapeutic process.

21/04/2026

a critical voice? a voice of reason?
“the psychiatrisation of our culture…it is so big, it boggles the mind…”
Little did he know then of where we are now…

18/04/2026

a very interesting thought.
What is an archetypal experience?
It strikes me as a fundamental human experience we all potentially share like “I belong” “I’m loved” recognitions like “my father did love me” (despite not demonstrating it) or the acceptance of loss of a loved one, or to let something in the past finally be, to name just a few would be all experiences many many people have made before us and they belong intrinsically to life. Processing and integrating them leads to more wholeness.
That’s what good psychotherapy is about.

21/03/2026

sounds about right. In the early stages of the development of the foetus the brain and gut are one. The gut has the highest amount of nerve endings of any organ apart from the brain.

What seems impossible is unfolding in gut-brain axis research centers where scientists have demonstrated for the first time that specific gut bacterial species — including Lactobacillus reuteri and Bifidobacterium longum — directly produce serotonin precursors and GABA in the intestinal lumen, with these molecules crossing into circulation and measurably altering brain neurotransmitter levels — providing the first direct mechanistic evidence that gut dysbiosis causes depression through neurotransmitter depletion, not merely correlates with it.

The study transplanted microbiomes from depressed human donors into germ-free mice — the animals developed identical depression-like behavioral signatures within 14 days, with their brain serotonin levels dropping by 40% compared to controls receiving healthy donor microbiomes. Reversing the dysbiosis with targeted probiotic restoration eliminated depressive behavior within 7 days. This is not a correlation. The bacteria are the cause. Every antidepressant prescribed while the gut microbiome remains broken is addressing the symptom while ignoring the factory that makes the molecule the symptom requires.

04/03/2026

We tend to think that depression and other mental illnesses are medical conditions caused by problems in the brain, and that framing them this way reduces stigma and leads to better treatment.

However, Joanna Moncrieff argues that this is deeply mistaken, and that medicalising mental distress can actually increase stigma, undermine hope of recovery, and distract us from what really helps.

Drawing on science, philosophy, and the history of pharmaceutical marketing, join Joanna in the search for a new and better model of mental health.

Joanna Moncrieff is a British psychiatrist and academic. She is Professor of Critical and Social Psychiatry at University College London and a leading figure in the Critical Psychiatry Network.

Tap here to watch her full interview. https://iai.tv/video/the-medicalisation-of-mental-illness-joanna-moncrieff

19/02/2026

the Greeks understood the psyche ( a Greek word) VERY well. Their mythology is an incredible map of the human psyche, their tragedies pointed to fundamental human pitfalls and their theater, in which actors wore masks called „personas“ led the whole audience through a process they named „catharsis“.

Long before the modern Olympics, Greek athletes followed rules that would sound extreme today.

They didn’t only train their bodies.
They trained who they were.

Because to the Greeks, fear of failure was the real enemy of performance.

Not weak muscles.
Not missing talent.
Fear.

So they practiced a method called prokatálepsis —
a mental ritual so powerful it was later banned for giving an “unfair advantage.”

Athletes described it as:
“The moment the future stopped being threatening.”
Here’s how it worked.

The night before competition, the athlete did something unusual:

He imagined losing.
Fully.
Clearly.
Painfully.
Without excuses.

Not to discourage himself.
Not to spiral.
But to drain fear of its power.

Because the Greeks believed you can’t be afraid of what you’ve already accepted.

Then came the second step — the part that made the ritual famous:

After visualizing defeat, the athlete stood alone in silence and repeated one sentence until his body felt it was true:

“What remains after fear is my true form.”
They believed this revealed the identity beneath ego, expectations, and imagined judgment.

And something strange happened:
Athletes slept deeper,
moved more freely,
and competed with a calm that felt almost untouchable.

Modern psychology later confirmed it.
When you vividly face the worst outcome and survive it mentally, your brain reduces the fear response tied to it.
Today it’s called exposure reconsolidation.

The Greeks called it:
“Returning to yourself before the world interferes.”

Try it next time fear tightens your chest.
Accept the loss for sixty seconds.

Then say the line.
You may feel something very old stirring awake inside you.

We are creating a space for those ready to let the mask fall — to step out of constant self-monitoring, and meet themselves as they truly are, their authentic self, long forgotten under pain and self-protection.

Follow us if you value awareness over control.

13/02/2026

deeply human and very touching.
His red hand files are also an amazing example of practiced humanity in the internet.