Find solutions for your health

Providing a wide range of complementary medicine services in Salamander Bay in Port Stephens and via online consultations helping people with chronic health issues, chronic pain, learning difficulties, depression and anxiety. Established in 1991, the centre’s founder David Corby is an internationally published author, teacher, clinician, public speaker and Kinesiologist in Port Stephens.

Most people don’t realise that Western Medicine has determined that most chronic illnesses are predominantly caused by lifestyle factors – stress, diet, smoking, drugs and exercise. This includes cancer (estimated to be 95% lifestyle and 5 % genetic), heart disease, diabetes, chronic pain, inflammatory bowel disease and autoimmune diseases. The most important single factor is often chronic stress although all lifestyle factors may be the key for specific people or cases.

What Western Medicine has not been able to do is to provide the unique lifestyle profile of each disease. This is where David’s unique mind-body medicine system provides answers. This system draws on 1000s of years of insights from Classical Chinese Medicine and combines it with modern neurology and physiology.

4 Steps

1. Empowerment
2. Recognition and understanding
3. Reframing the issue and finding a solution
4. Enabling the solution

Very few clients that see David have a good understanding of their illness. Often they are completely unaware of the things they can do to help themselves. Even more importantly they are only vaguely aware of what the predominant driving force behind the illness is.

In tackling the stress component of disease, what David came to understand was that we all have emotional needs that motivate us to act in certain ways. As a result we get stuck in certain types of behaviour patterns. Each behaviour pattern creates different stress profiles and effect the body in different ways. For example an excess giving and oversensitivity to others style behaviour will have different consequences for the body than a controlling and withdrawing to be safe style behaviour will have for the body.

One of the keys to helping people to move towards health is to help them break these long term patterns. The solution to each pattern is to uncover and address the root emotional need. David’s Body psychology system that he uses in his kinesiology clinic focusses on helping the client find this motivator and solve it using mind-body techniques. Clients find the sessions extremely insightful, empowering and liberating.

David’s key academic interest is in psychophysiology – how the mind affects the body and how the body can be used to give insights in regard to the mind. He has taught more than 1000 practitioners in Australia and overseas, worked in his Kinesiology Clinic for more than 20 years, and is the author of multiple courses and books in multiple languages. He initially worked as an economist in the financial markets before switching careers after his wife went through a life threatening illness and recovered with the help of kinesiology.