Hi, I'm Dr Edward Bassingthwaighte.
—The Healing Vet
My mission is to provide the best quality, most compassionate veterinary care possible.
I’m here to help your pets be well and happy, using safe, natural, and effective treatments and kind training. I’m a practising veterinarian BVSc(HonsII), registration V9000 with 30 years experience, and a deeply caring heart for animals and people.
Hi – I’m Dr Ed, The Psychic Vet. I share my life with Gem (the wonderful Whippet), Mitzi (a lovely old silky terrier x Shitzu), and Loki (a very active young tuxedo cat. I’ve been working as an intuitive and healer for more than 25 years. I am the creator of the Whole Energy Body Balance™ Method – a unique and profoundly healing energywork and bodywork modality for pets, horses, and people.
I’d like to share with you my intuitive and healing journey. I grew up in North Queensland on an extensive beef cattle property/ranch. I was always a super-sensitive kid, and I am quite neuro-spicy (ADHD and autism). I found it a lot easier to communicate with and relate to animals than humans.
When I was young, I had some interesting intuitive/perceptual experiences – seeing ghosts, having dreams related to past lives, experiencing and interacting with energy beings in nature, etc. But due to the very conservative social setting I grew up in, I had to shut a lot fo this sensitivity down to survive.
I graduated with a Bachelor of Veterinary Science from the University of Queensland (Hons) in 1995 – when I went into practice, I was a totally conventional vet.
About 3-4 years after graduation, I crashed really hard with Chronic Fatigue Syndrome and Lyme disease. I was so unwell I had to come home, and couldn’t work at all for 3-4 years. I was seriously, awfully unwell. Western medicine helped a little bit at first, but my doctors very quickly ran out of answers.
I found a massage therapist in our local town, and it turned out that he was a deeply experienced psychic and energy healer. His sessions did more to help me feel better than anything else I had found.
Then I found an amazing energy healer (Christine Hagey) on the internet. She was in the USA, I was in Australia, and so I experienced distant healing sessions for the first time. Again, I felt the positive impact.
I became fascinated with energy healing, and started learning everything I could. I completed the EMF Balancing Technique practitioner training. When I practiced the energy healing skills, I very quickly noticed that Tikka, my crazy little Staffy dog, could sense and feel when I was directing healing energy. She would always come and sit at my feet. This taught me how sensitive our animals are to healing energy.
I joined a psychic circle in Townsville, where I lived at the time, and participated in channeling, earth healing, soul retrieval, and many other energy healing/psychic activities every week for 3 years. This was a powerful ‘intuitive apprenticeship’.
I devoured the energy healing textbooks written by Barbara Brennan and Cyndi Dale. Above all, I practiced with myself, with my animals, and everywhere I could in the veterinary practices that I worked in. I had to be less than obvious, as most of the practice owners though this was a load of hooey.
When I started up my first home vsit vet practice, I could suddenly make intuitive work and energy healing an integral part of how I practiced. Every animal got a dose of energy healing, and I could see them respond.
Over time, I worked with high-level mentors – Christine Hagey of Earth Alchemy (sadly deceased now) and Jason Parks of www.thelifeprinciple.com.au, who helped me grow and learn more and more powerful techniques for opening up intuitive perception and practising energy healing.
I also had a kind of an anti-apprenticeship when I got tangled up with a ‘shadow shaman’ for a period of time. A dangerous practitioner of sorcery. Once I severed that relationship, it took me 8 years to clear and resolve all the things he had inflicted upon my energy system.
However, this has given me a very deep knowledge and awareness of all kinds of inappropriate energy practices, how to see them, and how to heal them. These kinds of things often affect animals either directly or because their humans have been impacted.
Over the last 25 years of intensive growth, learning, and practice of intuitive arts and energy healing with tens of thousands of animals and many humans, I have created the Whole Energy Body Balance™ Method – a modality that I have distilled all of my energy healing and intuitive development wisdom into. (You can learn WEBB Energywork as a home or Professional Practitioner.)
And this year, I have embarked on a 2-year-long intensive online apprenticeship led and taught by the elder mystics of the Q’ero people, indigenous to the deep Andes in Peru. I am devoted to ongoing spiritual, empathic, and intuitive growth and evolution in all aspects of my life.
I have a strong and ongoing Chi Gong practice which supports my energy system to be strong and resilient.
I bring a unique expertise and experience as a registered, practising vet of 30 years experience, allied with a deep, powerful intuitive and energy healing capacity. Not only can I sense what’s going on wtith your animal’s energy systems, and give them energy healing with a broad range of high-level, high-vibration skills and practices, but I can also tell you when your animals need veterinary attention. You can also ask me anything you like about holistic veterinary medicine during sessions with me.
Apart from my lifelong passion for intuitive and energy healing work with animals, I love to cook delicious, healthy food, walking in nature, making music (check out TreeBrother on all streaming platforms to enjoy my medicine music), creating art, ecstatic dance, and participating in/building community.
At The Psychic Vet, we believe…
Love is the cornerstone of healing.
Acting from the basis of love for your animal can lead to positive change not only for them, but for you as well.
Profound healing for your pet is possible.
While each pet’s life and journey is unique, every animal deserves to live their best life—with less drugs, more health, and no stress.
Much of the power to heal lies in your hands.
It’s our mission to empower pet owners and animal lovers to access and apply their own innate intuitive and empathic abilities to help their pets heal. We’re here to demystify the energetic nature of the body and help you build a deeper connection with your pets.