Hearing voices/ intrusive thoughts/ mind chatter treatment
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This issue is what is called a 'spectrum disorder'. That means it ranges from an unnoticeable or easily ignored condition to one that can wreck a person's life. For example, at the mild end some say they want help to deal with their mind chatter (because it is distracting, or interferes with meditation); at the moderate end of the scale one might say that they have intrusive thoughts that bother them; or at the extreme end of the scale, that they are 'hearing voices'.


The treatment outcome
The treatment eliminates the entire spectrum of chatter in the mind. It typically takes one session, with two more visits over the next week or so to be sure the change is stable. SMT gives relief from the relentless barrage of thoughts, as if the client had been living in a noisy bar their whole life without realizing it. SMT is very helpful people who want to escape the endless stream of thoughts in their own mind, or for meditators who what to be free of their monkey mind. You then can actually think and pay attention far more easily, because these irrelevant, distracting thoughts are gone.


Cost
The cost for a successful treatment is $1,500USD or €1,500 in the EU.

We use a 'pay for results' agreement with all our work - if the treatment did not eliminate the symptoms in the contract, there is no fee. You can download our standard hearing voices contract to get a better idea of what to expect.

To contact a therapist or to get more information, you can choose a therapist who is specially trained in this condition and its treatment. The list includes therapists who speak various languages and live in various time zones. The initial consultation is free.


Treatment
The new clinic treatment, developed in 2025, uses an extremely fast, simple and easy 2nd generation psychobiology approach to eliminate mind chatter, leaving the mind silent. This new treatment also helps clients in another way - it also eliminates dysfunctional sexual attractions. For most, this is a welcome relief. (But for those with a serious sexual addiction problem, it can take some time to adjust to this change in one's life.)

Our original treatment for voices was finalized around 2012, with all Institute trained therapists taught it (we called it the 'Silent Mind Technique'). It gets rid of the underlying pathogen infection that causes mind chatter and other psychological problems also caused by the infection. Unfortunately, this first generation psychoimmunology technique is hard to use, very time consuming, and doesn't work for everyone. To speed up therapy, we also developed simple and fast techniques that focused on treating subsets of the problems, like individual voices, individual interpersonal issues, and individual cultural blocks to moving forward in life - which is perfectly adequate for the needs of most clients. For a more complete description of the Silent Mind Technique, why it works, and how it was developed, we refer you to the book Silence the Voices: Discovering the Biology of Mind Chatter (2017) by Dr. Grant McFetridge. If you wish to use the older technique, we direct you to this therapist webpage. Regardless, the older SMT technique will be obsoleted in 2026, with the certified therapists retrained with the new technique.


About "hearing voices'
Many otherwise perfectly well people suffer from an excess of this mind chatter. A typical person can suppress the problem to a lesser or greater degree - these people cannot. People in this condition are sometimes called 'voice hearers'. Sometimes they call themselves 'channelers'.

For non-voice hearers it is hard to imagine what it is like to experience an uncontrollable barrage of voices in or around the head that nobody else can hear. Gina - a voice hearer who underwent the Silent Mind Technique in 2005 in Australia - described her experience prior to the treatment as "like having thirty drunk students camped out in the lounge room of her mind, yelling at each other while watching bad daytime TV" - see the testimonials for her description of the experience. It takes incredible fortitude to cope with what many people regard as relentless torture. The consequent effects of living with this condition for years can be debilitating, to say the least.

Some people believe the voices to be part of them, others that the voices are demonic. Many can point to specific areas around the head where they perceive each voice originates from, each with its own emotional tone or personality. Others experience the voice as their own and centered in the head. Not all voices are regarded as problematic though. One of our clients wanted to keep her 'comical voice' because it made her laugh - that was until it continued to keep her awake at night. Whichever way the voices are experienced, it is possible to eliminate them all with the Silent Mind Technique™. However, we understand that some people are attached to their voices and regard them as having value in their lives. We very much respect the right of the client to choose and will only help remove the voices with full consent and with full regards to the changes in life experience that the technique can facilitate.


For more background information on our approach and our treatments, you can read about our work at our main Institute research website, view YouTube videos from our annual research symposiums, or ask questions on our forum.

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