Everyone requires care for their mental health.
Psychotherapy is one of the most valuable interventions for well-being.
It has the capacity to increase our levels of emotional and physical health, improve our relationships, redeem the atmosphere in our families, and assist us in enhancing our professional potential.
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Base is your mental health coach. We use psychotherapy to connect and understand your current and future needs, then draw on a diverse array of tools that suit your lifestyle and character.
We utilise modalities that connect the mind and body, and are always open to researching the new, old, Eastern and Western.
Our care is holistic, for better outcomes.
By bringing together evidence-based techniques and supportive therapies, we help you build sustainable and enriching mental health routines – tailoring pathways to better relationships and resilient minds.
See the link in our bio for upcoming meditation courses held online, in Melbourne and on the Surf Coast.
The meditation technique we teach at Base is easy to learn, simple to practice, and, in only a short period of time, you can experience a remarkable transformation in your eyes-open experience of life.
Contrary to popular belief, meditation is easy to learn and the benefits can be experienced immediately. Learning to meditate doesn’t require any previous experience. Even those who consider themselves to have the busiest minds and believe it will be impossible for them to learn can be easily taught to have deeply restful meditative experiences in just 3 x 90 minute sessions.
Hello from @dance___remedy x @base________ <3
It’s been a few weeks since our Soba party, and we’ve been reflecting deeply on the night!
THANK YOU all for bringing your energy, dance moves and beautiful smiles to our very first Soba event. It’s a night we’ll never forget! Movement is medicine <3
Watching everyone move so freely, connecting to the music, the space and each other was genuinely magical.
One of the most asked questions of the night was, “When is the next one?” ~ We hear you… and yes, there will absolutely be another. We’ll share the details as soon as they land.
A special thank you to @tim_koren for that incredible set. That extended final round of applause said it all - you’re truly one of one!!
Thank you @jesperhede for assisting in the set up, adding the moody lighting and taking snaps of the night!
With love, gratitude and big smiles from the dance floor,
Dance Remedy x Base 🤍
Photos by @jesperhede
(Stay tuned for the next one 👀🪩✨)
In profound ways our bodies store and express experiences, especially those that are too difficult or overwhelming to articulate.
Trauma is not just a mental or emotional experience, it is a physical one. Our bodies carry the imprints of what we've gone through, whether it's through tension, pain, or unconscious patterns of movement. When we're unable to verbally express or process these experiences, the body may hold on to them in ways we can't fully understand with words alone.
By tuning into physical sensations, we can listen to the body's non-verbal communication. Gentle awareness of muscle tension, breath patterns, and physical posture can release tension within the body and mind. In this sense, the body speaks a language that transcends words, conveying emotions, past experiences, and needs that may otherwise remain hidden.
Healing doesn't always come from talking, but from creating a safe space for the body to release stored memories and emotions, thereby allowing our nervous system to return to balance.
The body reveals what is often too deep or painful for words, and through paying attention to our bodies, we can find natural paths to resolution and a renewed sense of wholeness.
We had a chat with artist and painter, Christopher Henderson, to talk about his full, and creative life, one shaped by time in the studio, yoga, good food, and a deep pull towards making art.
In our conversation, he reflects on growing up in the freedom of country Victoria, the role art has played in shaping his sense of self, and the unexpected ways creativity brings him into flow. From life drawing classes to long days in the studio, Chris offers an honest and grounded perspective on making art, meaning, and finding beauty and struggle in the same breath.
Read the full interview via the link in our bio.
📷 by @jesperhede
We get to where we’re going the same way we cross a room in the dark: slowly, carefully, one step at a time.
The mind likes to leap ahead. It scans the horizon, tries to map the entire journey, predict every obstacle, solve problems that don’t yet exist. And in doing so, it overwhelms itself.
Because most paths aren’t meant to be seen all at once.
They’re meant to be walked.
When everything feels like too much, it’s often not the task itself, but the distance we’re trying to hold in our heads. The weight of “everything still to come.”
So bring it back. What is the first step?
Not the perfect step. Not the step that guarantees the outcome. Just the next, available movement.
Send the message. Get out of bed. Open the document. Step outside. Take a breath.
Let the path reveal itself as you move, rather than demanding certainty before you begin.
You don’t need the whole plan. You just need to be willing to take one step, and then the next.
That’s how everything is built.
🎥 @francescaalvandi
Some of us carry the assumption that we are supposed to be ‘someone’ by now: a finished person, defined, coherent, sorted.
So when we change our minds, contradict ourselves, fall back into old habits, or outgrow things we once loved, it can feel like we’ve failed, like we’re doing life all wrong.
A more forgiving (and perhaps more accurate) way to understand ourselves is as processes. We are not solid; we are living organism that are constantly unfolding and shifting in response to time, relationships, stress, insight, fatigue, hope, etc.
To see ourselves as a process is to loosen the pressure to “arrive.” It allows for revision, for pauses, for contradiction. For the reality that growth is rarely linear and most often, not particularly graceful (or not graceful at all!).
This perspective also invites a different kind of responsibility. To veer away from perfectionism and stay in relationship with what is unfolding; to notice, to question, to interrupt what no longer fits.
🎥 @aslan_mhmtzhnv
Much of what we feel and repeat has a history. Patterns shape who we’re drawn to, how we respond in conflict, and the ways we try (often unsuccessfully) to be understood.
They can look like fate, but they are usually learned responses. Old adaptations that once made sense.
We might minimise our needs because we learned it was safer to be easy. We might pull away just as things deepen, because closeness once led to disappointment. We might return to people who can't meet us, replaying something unresolved.
Patterns are are signs of memory. The difficulty with patterns is that what once protected us can begin to limit us.
To notice a pattern is already a shift. It’s the moment we pause and wonder: what is this really about?
The moment we sense the difference between now, and what this reminds us of.
Change might begin by staying a little longer, saying something honest, or not following the usual script.
Small interruptions, over time, make room for something new.
We may not control where our patterns come from. But, slowly, we can choose how they continue.
📷 @arianna.lago
The natural world (which we are a part of) moves in cycles.
Fire burns a forest. The forest returns, richer. A river floods. The floodplain becomes fertile.
Destruction is not the opposite of renewal, it is the beginning of it.
Western thinking tends to split the cycle in two, treating destruction as failure and renewal as something to earn or achieve. But indigenous cultures tell us we cannot have one without the other.
Trying to skip the burning is both ecologically and spiritually impossible.
Nature offers us something that therapy, for all its gifts, can't always give: perspective through scale.
We don't go to nature simply for exercise, or fresh air, or a change of scenery. We go because a part of us knows that the mind, left alone with itself for too long, begins to stress. Worries loop. Grievances calcify. The ordinary proportions of things become distorted.
In nature, the grip eases. And for even just a moment, we remember that we are animals too, and that animals were never designed to sit alone, indoors, worrying about things that haven't happened yet.
📷 @arianna.lago
We are currently taking new clients for online psychotherapy.
Book a free 15-minute consultation via the link in our bio.
We can help with:
Sense of Self • • Stress • • Anxiety • • Relationships • • Family • • Identity • • Mood • • Depression • • Self-esteem • • Grief • • Transitions • • Trauma • • PTSD • • Purpose • • Intimacy • • Attachment Repair • • Sex • • Body Image • • Well-being
