Compassionate Inquiry™ is a psychotherapeutic approach developed by Dr. Gabor Maté and Sat Dharam Kaur that focuses on revealing what lies beneath the appearance we present to the world.

Together, client and therapist uncover the layers of consciousness, mental climate, hidden assumptions, implicit memories and body states that make up the actual message that words both express and conceal.

Through Compassionate Inquiry™, you learn through experience to recognise the unconscious dynamics that affect your life and how to free yourself from them. Although it is a talk-based therapy, the focus is on the body and nervous system, and on what takes place there in the present moment.

“The purpose of Compassionate Inquiry™ is to drill down to the core stories people tell themselves — to get them to see what story they are telling themselves unconsciously; what those beliefs are, where they came from; and to guide them to the possibility of letting go of those stories, or letting go of the hold those stories have on them.”

Dr. Gabor Maté