Physical & Emotional Rebuilding<
there is a crossover point in your life where you realise that what you thought was a weakness is in fact a strength and what you thought was your strength is in fact your weakness
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About Us
Holistic
Ex -Registered Psychologist
Clinical Hypnotherapist
Day & Night Consultants
Appointment Only
Introductory Seminars AND FOLLOW UP WORKSHOPS
After over 25 years as a psychologist and hypnotherapist Michael Quirk has found that all your reality including your ailments ,illnesses,diseases ,relationship problems are right in front of your face every day to show you that you indeed have another part of you that lives in another dimension .This part wants you,no insists that you do understand your power first and then use this understanding as a foundation to be fulfilled .
. This journey of discovery ,this devised method that works is called DESTINY'S HIGHWAY -find out why you are here and get there as quickly as possible.
YOU WILL FIND PEACE.
THE ONLY FOUNDATION FOR WHO YOU REALLY ARE.
Are you sick of surviving, sick of coping?
Do you feel that you are not living?
Are you sick of being sick (unhappiness=unhealthiness)?
Are you sick of struggling, sick of "dragging your arse”?
Are you sick of feeling hopeless?
Then it may be time for you to rescue yourself’.
You might just need a different map to use to find a different road or even better still a different highway to travel. After all you’re the only one that can do it - that’s how it’s meant to be - it has been
designed perfectly by IT - the universe.
Maybe you are ready to work with the ways of the universe - to think about our feelings in a different way - to travel on DESTINY’S HIGHWAY - where there is no destination, it’s a journey where - what you feel determines your reality”.
“There is no beginning and there is no end.”
Just be yourself , What else is there ?
You have to learn how ‘TO BE’ first-before you can ‘be somebody’.
In my heart, I shine, I am my strength
ADVENTURE INTO YOURSELF
SOME OUTCOMES - (*NOT REAL NAMES)
CASE A - NELL
Before walking into adventure
For past 12 mths. Nell has suffered constant panic attacks
Always anxious
Unable to care for family –husband, three children
Unable to venture out of house without assistance
Smoking
Unable to attempt driving licence
Husband struggling to cope with carrying out self-employment and looking after sick wife, and carry out home duties.
Previous treatment options
Past and Present Medication regimes have been unsuccessful to alleviate symptoms; Next step is a mental institution. As a result, her belief of ‘now I really must be crazy’ instigates further feelings of hopelessness and despair
Nell & husband don’t wish that to occur, they want to try alternatives.
After 3 mths of adventure
Vibrant young woman
Panic attacks and anxiety no longer there
Medication no longer taken
Learning to drive
No longer smoking
Self-employed
Able to carry out a wife’s and mother’s role.
Husband no longer concerned with his wife’s health and her capacity to cope
She now has the skills to work with other challenges that may arise in life.
CASE B - FRED *
At adventure entry
Sleep disorder - hasn’t had a full night’s sleep in twenty years
Unable to fall into a deep sleep
Has to sleep in a pitch-black room, without a door or window open.
Headaches nearly every day
Can’t concentrate for any length of time
Has difficulty remembering things
Always bit his nails
Phobias – enclosed spaces, low ceilings and blood.
Previous Clinicians - Treatment options
Psychiatry
Doctors
Professors – anti-depressants presently being taken.
Sleep experts
After 4mths of adventure
Sleeping well with the door and/or window open
No medication
As a result of being able to sleep,
He is ‘the happiest I’ve seen him’ says his wife.
Others around him notice the difference e.g. his dentist, last saw him 6 mths. Earlier ‘You look 4000% better than when I saw you last’
Able to be more efficient at work
More assertive generally, stronger voice.
Can now easily relax
Has so much more energy
CASE C - ROGER*
At adventure entry
For the past five years, bad headaches have been occurring whenever exercise is undertaken. He has suffered many assaults during his 13yrs of active service. After the physical recovery from the last major assault, the headaches have been occurring. He has been confined to desk duties since and it seems will be discharged with a pension as he was Hurt on Duty.
Only relief is to lie down after taking Panadol
Consuming large amounts of alcohol to “get through the day’
Unable to enjoy the sports that he loves –prevents running, swimming, touch football and cycling
Weight increasing
Trouble sleeping
Libido disappeared
Affecting relationship –often cranky and irritable with wife and daughters.
Previous modalities tried.
Conventional medicine
Chiropractic
Physiotherapy
Acupuncture
Psychology
Outcome- 12 mths later
Exercise without headaches- cycling four days per week, for 30-40 mins
Sleeping better
Alcohol consumption now social – not used to cope
SOME TESTIMONIALS
"Michael Quirk’s approach is innovative, and builds on well respected theories and therapies. Based on the results I have experienced with many of my patients his approach is achieving remarkable results in a very short period of time."
Dr. JS
"I have known Michael for approximately 10 years. I originally decided to see Michael as my brother had previously been to him for a period. At the time I believed my brother had achieved a great deal of information, insight and relief.
At the time I was searching for the meaning of life, I had turned forty and it seemed to me that pressure was building for some unknown reason. I had read many books and been to a number of self help courses but could not find any meaningful answers.
Being an Engineer by profession and having completed an MBA I thought I should have had the intellectual grunt to solve anything, but no matter what I did, I could not seem to change the way I felt. I was starting to question everything about myself and my life.
I had been to mind power courses and read many related books most of which were based on affirmations and goal setting. I had 5 year plans, mission statements, 3 monthly plans, weekly plans, and a special diary of daily affirmations, priority lists and achievements.
My answer was to train harder, think harder and work harder to overcome any adversity, but I was realizing these strategies were not working.
The insights my brother had discussed with me regarding his work with Michael were very tempting but I waited many months before taking any step. I thought seeing anyone relating to personal issues was an absolute sign of weakness.
I still remember my first sessions with Michael which gave me insights I never even considered. I had considered feelings as just things, but his emotional bottle analogy and everything he mentioned fitted so well.
I believe those visits with Michael were a major turning point in my life, it gave me skills to begin a healing program on my self which I still carry on today. Even just recently I was speaking to my brother who also considers Michael’s visits were also a major turning point in his life.
I still keep in contact with Michael and I still discuss with him the first sessions I had with him and the overall impact his program had on my life and how I now feel.
I believe Michael’s program, which is based on developing a deep empathy for yourself is far in advance of anything that has come across my path."
John Kempnich
"My name is Sandy Christie I’m a 38 year old mother of three. My children range in age from 21 years old to 6 years old. For much of my children’s life’s I have been a single mother.
I was recommended to Michael Quirk in 1998, by a very close friend. During this time I have been to see Michael on a one on one off basis about a dozen times. More recently I have participated in small group sessions with other people Michael had been seeing. These groups had been set up with the idea of creating a safe environment for people to share their feelings and to support each other through the process. These sessions were extremely effective to everyone involved.
When I went to see Michael for the first time I would have considered myself to be extremely depressed and suicidal. Michael was non judgmental, this allowed me to feel very safe and comfortable talking to him about my life and the traumatic events that I had been through.
Prior to meeting Michael, I had been to several psychologist/ counselors, each one not helping in my understanding of myself. Many were judgmental and very ineffective with their treatment process. The quick fix attitude was rife. I found myself being offered pills, potions and coping mechanisms. I felt like I was on a bloody horrible merry- go-round.
The fear and the stigmas of seeing psychologist, psychiatric doctors etc are very real. People have a fear of being labeled or slotted into a box. The way society looks upon the mentally ill or emotional challenged keeps people away from being helped, until major events leave them no where else to go. If we had more people healing like Michael, I feel more people would be effectively healed sooner.
Michael has helped me to understand why things happened in my life that appeared to be similar and why I felt the same feeling again and again. Giving me an understanding and knowledge of how we generate our own destiny with the way we look at events and the feeling we generate from them. Through simple diagrams and explanations I have gained clarity to my life and my children’s life.
I use Michaels’s techniques when moving through my everyday; I apply it to every situation that I face or my love ones face. I have been able to help many friends and family members along my journey.
I now can Identify when I become disconnected and distant from my real self and am able to clearly see when I switch back to the coping me. Michael has taught me patience and empathy, But most of all the power of truly loving myself.
I have not heard of anyone else teaching such an effective simple way of healing. Michael has truly discovered a phenomenon, which can only benefit anyone who comes into contact with anyone who has been fortunate enough to have been to see Michael Quirk.
Thanks Michael"
Sandy Christie
"My name is Karen Archer; I’m a 35 year old wife and mother of three. I have been a Registered Nurse for 12 years.
I had the fortune of meeting Michael Quirk 2005. Until then I now realize that I had very little clarity in my life, or understanding of my feeling and how they mean so much.
I did not know how to experience my feelings, and learn from events that brought these feelings up to me again and again throughout my life.
Like most people who seek out psychological help, I had just gone through a major event. This event convinced me I need help to cope. I always convinced myself to be strong and to survive. The events in my life got bigger and more emotionally taxing. Until I lost my family business, my new home and my husband of ten years left in his own despair.
At first I was advised by my health care colleges to seek out the staff psychologist. This I did, after a half a dozen consultation it become apparent to me that all I was getting was more advise on how to cope and how to blame other people for my sadness.
Strangely at the same time my husband was seeing another psychologist. He had previously used this Psychologist. Since then he has expressed to me the feeling of being unsupported and misunderstood.
From my experience as an RN I could see that my husband was depressed and dulling his feelings with alcohol which was only exacerbating the situation. We were both spinning around in circles and out of control.
I reached out to Michael and from the moment I arrived in his office, I realized that I was the only focus and that I was going through all this for a reason. I was the only one who had the controls. Michael gave me insight into my feelings and showed me how important they really are.
I gave my husband Michael’s number and he started going to him separately, Michael explained that we must only work on ourselves and if the other person grows too that’s great but there is nothing one can change about the other. Changes will only happen when we are ready to make the changes ourselves.
Michael showed me the importance of my childhood and events that occurred throughout my life. Michael showed me how important it is to be empathetic to myself. Through very simple diagrams and explanation of the way our feelings work and how society has taught us to block these feelings. He showed me how to move through my embarrassment, ego and judgment of myself. Michael showed me I was safe, and how to truly love myself.
I found the techniques Michael used very effective. So much so when my middle child started to act out as a result of the past events, my husband and I did not hesitate to take him to Michael. He was eight at the time, he was being bullied at school, and he was becoming aggressive and withdrawn.
I stayed with my son during his time with Michael. I was impressed how Michael adjusted his techniques to suit a child. After finding out my son was a good soccer player, Michael showed my son a scenario he could relate to.
Michael asked my son to imagine he was on the soccer field and there was a little boy who couldn’t play as well and kept making mistakes. The little boy’s father was yelling at him from the side line, and the boy was hurt and crying. Michael asked my son what he would do. My son said he would give the boy a hug and protect him. He said he would help the boy with his soccer. Michael gently related this to my son.
A year or more has passed and my son still relates to the little boy when things aren’t going well for him. Quite often he says he needs to hug his soccer player, and states he does not love himself.
I feel that if an eight year old can pick this up then anyone can. My son is now much more settled and now responds to situations rather then reacting to them.
I’m fortunate enough to work on a very diverse ward. One that covers four specialties: Gastrointestinal, Renal, Endocrine, and Palliative care.
As one can imagine the range of patient’s problems is vast. On any one day I may have Patients who are suicidal, depressed, withdrawing from alcohol and drugs. I may also have patients who have documented illnesses such as Schizophrenia, Bipolar, and brain injury caused by accidents, or short term memory loss caused by any number of things from disease to injury or drug abuse. I work extremely close with social workers and the Psychiatric team. I attend many conferences and have a large input into care plan for these patients.
This role is extremely frustrating at times as traditional medical methods are the first line of treatment. Anti depressants, anti psychotic, and benzodiazepam such as valium, rivitrol temazpam, are regularly used to elevate feeling and to help with other symptoms of the patient’s illness.
The psych team has a limited approach and quite often can be judgmental and righteous when discussing cases away from patients. Many patients have stated they feel misunderstood, they have little guidance or support. They feel labeled and boxed. Quite often these patients present time and time again.
Along with the patient come the families. Time and time again the same issue arises, judgment, coping, survival. These people have them so wrapped up when they do feel they become embarrassed and apologise for crying. Since meeting Michael I have been able to bring a different dimension to this team of professionals. My approach is non judgmental. I encourage both the patient and their families to express their feelings and to recognize the man made strategies they are using. I teach them to be empathic to themselves. I have seen changes in the other members of the team and in the patients.
Michael has shown me that I always had the tools with me and that life can be good. Feeling can be very scary but it’s the most productive thing I have ever done. There is nothing to buy or sell, no gimmick, just a gift of freedom.
Thank you Michael, the skills you have taught me will be used everyday of my life and I hope my children and their children will also benefit.
I HAVE NOT AND WOULD NOT HESITATE TO RECOMMEND MICHAEL QUIRK TO ANYONE."
Karen Archer
>Holistic
Ex -Registered Psychologist
Clinical Hypnotherapist
Day & Night Consultants
Appointment Only
Introductory Seminars AND FOLLOW UP WORKSHOPS
QUALIFICATION DETAILS
EX-Civil Engineer
EX - Registered Psychologist
Member of Australian Society of Clinical Hypnotherapists
Service Categories
Counselling, Hypnotherapist, Life Coaching, Psychotherapy
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