A twenty year journey of healing with touch and energy.
A healing method: loving therapeutic touch, intuitive perception, energy healing, relationship building, presence, and personal evolution.
Whole Energy Body Balance was discovered and refined by holistic veterinarian Dr Edward Bassingthwaighte, BVSc(HonsII), through decades of hands-on work with thousands of animals.
From a curious question to a whole healing system.
The WEBB Method didn't arrive fully formed. It grew, animal by animal, from a single question and a willingness to keep feeling deeper, for twenty years.
How the WEBB Method came to be.
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A question that started it all
Two years out of veterinary school, Dr Edward learned from Dr Tom Ahern, an equine vet treating horses with bad necks, how subtle vertebral misalignments compress nerve roots and cause pain throughout the body. He wondered: if this works for horses, could it work for dogs?
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Feeling deeper into the body
At the time, no one in the small animal world specialised in bodywork. "Every dog and cat I saw from that point on became the subject of my explorations, as I felt deeper into their bodies, searching for signs of pain and impingement."
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A twenty year journey
What followed was a twenty year journey of learning how to unlock pain, tension, anxiety and trauma from the physical body with healing touch and neuro-fascial bodywork, developed hands-on with thousands of animals.
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Healing the healer
When Dr Edward contracted Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, his own healing journey led him deep into energy work. He wove those high-vibration energy healing skills into the method, completing the Whole Energy Body Balance system as it is taught today.
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Sharing the work
Dr Edward saw so many animals responding to WEBB sessions with him, healing from pain, anxiety and trauma, becoming more playful, happy and connected with their humans. So he decided to share this work, and started teaching WEBB in face-to-face workshops in 2014.
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Taking WEBB to the world
In 2019, Dr Ed took the WEBB trainings online, and the WEBB Bodywork for Pets and WEBB Energywork certifications were accepted by the International Institute for Complementary Therapies. We have taught more than 5000 students, with more than 60 practitioners and 8 teachers gaining certification.
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WEBB continues to evolve
WEBB keeps growing and evolving, with WEBB 2.0 fundamentals launching in 2025, combining WEBB Bodywork for Pets and WEBB Energywork for Animals into a unified program: WEBB for Pets.
Dr Edward Bassingthwaighte
Holistic veterinarian, somatic healer and teacher, known to many as The Healing Vet.
Dr Edward has spent his career searching for the silent pain animals can't tell us about, and finding gentle, powerful ways to release it. Through his own recovery from Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, he came to understand healing from the inside out, and that understanding lives in every part of the WEBB Method.
Today he teaches WEBB to pet owners, horse people and professional practitioners around the world, and offers holistic veterinary and intuitive healing sessions for pets and people.
Dr Ed is a medicine musician, recording and performing as TreeBrother. He loves cooking and time in nature, and is in the second year of an intensive apprenticeship with the elders of the indigenous Q'ero people of the Andes, Peru.
Discover what WEBB can do.
Learn the method, find relief for the animal you love, or train to bring this work to others.