Clinical Practice
Brian enjoys humorous Australian poetry and folklore, anecdotes and songs by A.B. Patterson, who wrote Waltzing Matilda. Customarily, he is heard enjoying singing with patients after selecting specific poems and music for them. Choices are based on tested psychological needs analysis so these are tailor-made for direct therapeutic impact in projective techniques.
“As a humorist of note
And keen at repartee,
He lays the odds and keeps a tote,
Whatever that may be”
A.B. Patterson
This advanced psychotherapy is not unusual for those who know Brian professionally. During Australia’s 2001 Centennial Federation celebrations were held periodically at his picturesque farm clinic. His wife Jan trained with Professor Cassel as a psychometrician. Group workshop participants enjoy tea and scones or coffee with donuts. They discover “yippee” neurotransmitters in cognitive behavioural reality therapy.
Dr Costello and his wife Jan
The Ibis Lodge consulting rooms, take a second place to natures “outside reality therapy”. Cognitive behavioural management from a behaviorist perspective is more easily understood and significantly tuned with harmonious behaviourist scientific constructs. Patients learn the applied science of non-verbal communication with his horses but not with his camel”, hand feeding the cattle, goats, peacocks, guinea foul, magpies, free range roosters living in the gum trees, broody hens and bantams, Chinese geese, wild ducks and even, ” Ibis flocks”.
Alternatively, Brian is found giving therapy at the local Cranbourne YMCA indoor swimming pool. There he addresses Heart-risk factors and Coronary age, chronic backache, migraine and arthritis. Refined pain control techniques are frequently employed in flotation and perceptual after-imagery in the spar pool. He treats chronic and acute pain and also emotional suffering with Computerised biofeedback; Playway & Humour therapy techniques; Non-form subliminal music; Advanced breathing exercises; “Yippee” b-endorphin reinforcement; Sound & light subliminal modalities; Tai Chi: Thematic moodtempo singing; Protracted Gregorian, Tibetan and Hebrew chanting.