Evolver Drug Rehab Team
Brett Pascoe, Managing Director
- Diploma of Alcohol and other drugs
- Diploma of remedial massage
- Diploma of raynor massage
- Advanced diploma of raynor massage
- Teacher for raynor massage
- International massage school
- Trained in jost sauer recovery methods in 2007
- Recovery coach since 2007
- Diploma of Community Services (AOD)
- Diploma of Remedial Massage
- Certificate 4 in Shiatsu
- Intake Director/Recovery Coach
Brett Pascoe has founded and run several successful rehabs. He has professional qualifications and extensive expertise in the field of addiction and therapy. Additionally Brett completed the intensive Jost Sauer Recovery System training program in 2007, and is currently studying a Diploma of Mental Health.
Brett’s own background includes addiction experience (ecstasy, alcohol, cocaine, sex, internet porn and crystal meth). During this period he attended multiple mainstream drug rehabilitation centres (government and non government funded programs) without success. After completing one 12 month live in program, he used the day he left. He also experienced hospital admissions with drug induced psychosis, suspected overdoses and seizures. Brett understands the weaknesses and limitations of the mainstream approaches to addiction and he recovered fully using alternative methods and without prescribed medications.
Brett has expertise in both the mainstream and holistic approaches to recovery, and extensive knowledge of addiction. He has used this to educate, mentor and guide others in ‘evolving’ their drug experiences, and in helping people learn how to use their pasts as a tool for self-development. Brett’s mission is to help every client take the sustainable path forward to full recovery, and a great life after addiction.
Maree, Therapist
Maree is a cross-modality enegetic body worker focused on clearing blocks to emotional health and wellbeing. Utilising techniques gained from a variety of modalities, her passion lies in reconnecting people with their internal wisdom; helping them navigate the tricky landscape of transition and change. Appointments provide an oppurtunity to experience the alchemical change available when combining talk therapy, breath, sound, active meditation and remedial massage therapy.
Michael, Director – Therapy
Michael relishes in providing non-ordinary therapy to people who can’t stand the mundane life and feel deep down they were born for a fulfilling, fun, exciting and creative life. A life without restriction where they can express their infinite nature. Michael’s passion is to help people transition as a refugee from the mundane ordinary world into a native inhabitant of the infinite ever blossoming mind blowing dream of life itself. As a therapist and psychological researcher for over two decades Michael prides himself on developing psychological therapy for optimum health that is based on academic study but also most importantly therapy that is based on his in depth experience of life in the trenches as a social worker, teacher and student of life.
Michael draws from an eclectic mix of evidence based therapies in Psychology, Natural Medicine and creative processes and techniques.
Jost Sauer, Program Director
An ex-addict, dealer and deserter turned therapist, Jost kickstarted the recovery revolution with his practical yet spiritually profound take on quitting drugs and using past experiences of altered states to launch a cosmic quest.
I pioneered lifestyle medicine for recovery and created a holistic recovery program that ran successfully in numerous residential rehabs.
I’m an acupuncturist, presenter and creator of the Chi Cycle health system. Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) is my profession, passion and purpose. I taught it for a decade, write books that popularise elements of it, and I’m a practitioner in the traditional sense as I combine research and clinical practice with hours of chi-practice daily.
It all began in rehab, one I ran that is. Although one I was a patient in could have been just as likely as a good decade of my life was devoted to altered states. And although that didn’t end well, it did lead me to Chinese medicine and chi, and that opened more doors than the drugs ever did.
Preventative health is a passion and my version of lifestyle medicine is based on the Chinese organ clock, the idea that chi circulates through our organs every 24 hours, and that changing what you do when will change everything for the better. It imagines us all as cogs in complex and mystical cosmic workings and if we just realign, life becomes more meaningful and mystical by the day.
I developed a residential rehab program based on this concept, and the healing and transformative medium of chi. Seeing clients withdraw from heroin without side-effects, seeing meth cravings vanish, seeing ‘alcoholics’ have a glass or two and then stop, led me to adapt the program for everyone. This was the birth of the Chi Cycle lifestyle; a health-boosting, fat-burning feel-good day plan.
Emma, Therapist/ Art Therapy
Having dabbled in many drugs, my biggest downfall was meth. By 20, I was injecting three times a day, I could barely hold a job, I was in and out of conventional rehab and my sanity had pretty much drowned along with any hope of getting out of the hole I had found myself in. By 21, psychotic episodes and mental breakdowns were a regular on the menu. I had just about destroyed every relationship I had and my self-esteem and self-worth were residing 6 feet deep beneath the ground I walked on.
I was finally ready to give rehab another shot, when I had a psychic reading which lead me to Jost. His holistic approach to drug rehabilitation was the only thing that actually worked. With his guidance, I managed to stop using meth, and by putting in the work I not only got my life back, but I have managed to discover my talents, my passion and my purpose.
Over four years on, I now strive to help others going through addiction. I use bodywork as a means to heal others, helping them process unresolved emotions and restoring chi flow to create mental, physical and spiritual well-being.
Andy, Therapist
Andy is a qualified practitioner in Herbal Medicine and massage. As a teenager, following the death of a close loved one, he turned to psychedelics to escape the extreme emotional turmoil. This then evolved into meditation practice due to being interested in the power of our own minds. Following years of living in ashrams and also in isolation for deep introspection, he discovered his purpose to be with others with their own inner struggles. His degree in health science has continued into in-depth studies of western herbal medicine, traditional Chinese medicine, massage, Buddhism, and Daoism. Offering a holistic approach to wellness that realigns clients with their body, breath, and relationships, to address issues such as physical pain, digestive disturbances, stress, and the all too pervasive mental traps. Sessions always revolve around listening to what needs to be expressed, encouraging balance to naturally return, and willing the feeling of empowerment to emerge.
Abby, Therapist
Andreas, Therapist
Bachelor in Naturopathy
Zenthai Shiatsu therapist
5 element Acupressure therapist
Kinesiologist – Touch for health system
Andreas has developed a deep passion for the Chinese medicine healing system and has used its wisdom to support himself through hard life stages in the past nine years. Events include the death of both his parents, divorce, raising young children and co-parenting.
Andreas has found his calling in life working with the five element and meridian energy system frameworks through bodywork, yoga, Qigong and other modalities. They have supported him to heal and grow on a physical, emotional and spiritual level. Now his lifestyle and healing work revolves around living in accordance with the cycles of nature to promote wellness for his family and clients.
Andreas’s bodywork sessions support wellbeing by assessing excesses and deficiencies in the energy body and removing blockages so the Chi (life force energy) can flow more freely to reduce pain and tension and aid healing. Andreas has a particular interest in the emotional issues encountered by his clients and how they are linked, and often the underlying cause, to physical symptoms such as pain and tension.
About the Evolver System
Most rehabs focus on changing your behaviour, this doesn’t work. If it did no one would ever relapse. The Evolver rehab system doesn’t focus on changing your behaviour but on building your chi.
For example if you drop an ecstasy pill, you don’t deliberately decide to behave differently, it is generated from within. This is down to chi. So the program treatments create the same effects. Focusing on changing behaviour is an external approach. This approach is internal. This is why it works.
New set points
Once you experience a peak state or a peak performance state via drugs (or alcohol) your body-mind adjusts accordingly and immediately creates new set points. Evolver Rehab understands that this is why people relapse, so the program works with matching and recreating those set points.
This is the only program in the world that does this, and it gets results. The chi experiences embed in the body-mind, along with techniques for building inner power to automatically counter the urge to relapse before it even rises to the conscious mind. You will be able to trust yourself in any situation regardless of the triggers.
New drug users
Most addicts these days begin as ‘functional’ users. You might use ice (meth) in the morning before work to get on top of workloads, amplify energy and be able to multi-task.
You might have become dependant on marijuana to manage stress, counter insomnia or just be able to sit back.
We have treated many people who have ended up needing to drink excessive amounts of alcohol every night just to be able to unwind, to reset from the day or to have a few moments finally feeling truly themselves.
Most drug use is about amplifying reality, not escaping it, or it’s about lifestyle management. So there’s no point wasting time on outdated guilt-tripping. Instead get a replacement plan in place for whatever it was you wanted or needed from drugs or alcohol – otherwise you will always feel something is missing and this is relapse territory.
Successful recovery means you quit drugs or alcohol for good, have no cravings and don’t live in a state of anxiety over relapsing, or losing the plot emotionally. The Evolver Rehab System delivers this.