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International Certified Havening Techniques® Practitioner

Licensed Neuro-Linguistic Programming Practitioner

Certified, Accredited Hypnotherapist

Specialization

  • Hypnotherapy, Havening Techniques, NLP (Neuro-Linguistic Programming), Stress Relief, Emotional Healing, Trauma Recovery, Mental Wellness, Inner Peace, Positive Transformation, Mindfulness, Behavioral Change, Anxiety Reduction, Confidence Building

    Stress

  • Hypnotherapy, Havening Techniques, NLP (Neuro-Linguistic Programming), Stress Relief, Emotional Healing, Trauma Recovery, Mental Wellness, Inner Peace, Positive Transformation, Mindfulness, Behavioral Change, Anxiety Reduction, Confidence Building

    Trauma

  • Hypnotherapy, Havening Techniques, NLP (Neuro-Linguistic Programming), Stress Relief, Emotional Healing, Trauma Recovery, Mental Wellness, Inner Peace, Positive Transformation, Mindfulness, Behavioral Change, Anxiety Reduction, Confidence Building

    Anxiety

Discovering Your Healing Capacity Through Havening Techniques®

What if healing is possible through the gentle power of touch? You're about to explore an extraordinary therapeutic approach that naturally combines ancient healing wisdom with cutting-edge neuroscience to create profound trauma recovery possibilities.

What Are Havening Techniques®?

Havening Techniques® are a gentle touch therapy designed to help your brain heal from traumatic memories and remove their negative effects from both your mind and body. The name comes from the fact that it's a step-by-step process that puts your emotional responses into a safe space – a haven. When you're ready to heal, this remarkable approach uses healing touch as its primary tool to support your natural capacity for trauma recovery.

Havening belongs to a larger group of methods that use touch and other senses to help change thoughts, feelings, and behaviors. This means your healing journey can begin to unfold naturally as you learn to work with your brain's built-in ability to heal from traumatic experiences.

The Beautiful Science Behind Your Healing Capacity

Before you fully understand this trauma healing transformation, you might begin to realize something incredible about how your brain naturally protects and heals itself. In a moment of trauma encoding, the brain goes into what's called a hyper gamma wave state, which allows the amygdala, our survivor brain, to basically latch like super glue onto a traumatic experience. Your amygdala has been working overtime to protect you from perceived threats – and this protective response shows the remarkable intelligence of your nervous system.

How Your Protective System Creates Trauma Encoding

Your brain's threat detection system has been working incredibly hard to keep you safe. When trauma occurs under specific circumstances, your amygdala creates what we call trauma patterns - a type of linking that makes you more sensitive to future traumatic events. This protective mechanism has kept you safe by remembering potential dangers.

However, you might notice that when these stored trauma memories are triggered, your body becomes flooded with stress chemicals like cortisol and adrenaline. Your fight-or-flight response activates muscle tension, rapid heartbeat, and emotional overwhelm before your conscious mind even processes what's happening. While this threat detection system protected you during trauma, it can continue creating these intense stress responses even when you're actually safe.

The Beautiful Process of De-linking Trauma Through Havening

Here's where the amazing healing becomes possible: The gentle Havening touch naturally creates delta waves in your brain - the same peaceful brain waves that occur during deep sleep. These delta waves work like a gentle eraser for traumatic memories that have been "super-glued" into your brain. When your nervous system feels safe through Havening touch, you can naturally allow yourself to step into amygdala calming and memory rewriting.

Havening works by helping to separate the traumatic event from the intense emotions connected to it. As you continue to discover what's possible through Havening, you can notice how this process supports your brain's natural ability to heal and change. The soothing touch helps your brain enter a state where old traumatic patterns become flexible again, allowing you to release the emotional pain while keeping the memory without its overwhelming power.

How Havening Touch Supports Your Healing Journey

The first thing you might notice about healing through Havening is how naturally your body responds to this calming touch. Havening involves a gentle self-soothing motion with crossed arms, softly stroking from shoulders to elbows as well as gently petting your face and rubbing your hands together.

During a Havening session, you can imagine yourself comfortably creating a safe healing space where several beautiful things happen at the same time:

  • Gentle processing of traumatic memories while you remain supported and grounded

  • Delta wave creation that naturally occurs as you experience the soothing touch

  • Stress relief and emotional balance as your nervous system begins to shift

  • Protected environment where you can process trauma at your own pace

What Happens When You Experience Havening

Many people discover that Havening sessions naturally unfold in a gentle, respectful way that honors your healing timeline. Here's what you might experience:

  • Present-centered awareness as you begin to recall the traumatic memory or triggering situation, honoring the protective system that kept you safe

  • Gentle touch movements through soft arm stroking, face touching, or palm rubbing that signals safety to your nervous system

  • Calming system activation as your threat detection system begins to recognize that you're no longer in danger

  • Mind distraction through counting, visualization, or unrelated conversation to engage your thinking brain and prevent stress chemical flooding

  • Fight-or-flight calming as delta waves naturally support your brain's capacity to separate trauma patterns and create new, empowering responses

  • The process continues until you no longer feel any distress when asked to bring back up the upsetting event. The Havening process supports your journey toward peace.

The Remarkable Permanence of Your Healing Choice

One of the most inspiring things about Havening is the lasting nature of the transformation. While the Havening Techniques is a relatively new healing approach and has yet to be fully researched, it has been observed that after successfully applying The Havening Techniques, it appears to be permanent in most cases. This is because The Havening Techniques are designed to alter the biological structure of the brain.

What amazing healing becomes possible when you decide to heal? You're choosing a path that works with natural changes in your brain to support genuine, lasting recovery from trauma. Instead of your threat detection system continuously flooding your body with stress chemicals, you can begin to retrain those trauma pathways to support incredible healing growth and create responses that serve your highest good.

Ready to Create Healing?

As you continue to explore your capacity for trauma recovery, you might already begin to realize something important: your healing strength has been within you all along. Havening simply provides a pathway to access that inner wisdom and courage to heal that you already possess.

Whether you're ready to choose healing today or tomorrow, Havening offers a gentle, scientifically-grounded approach to transforming trauma and creating the life-changing recovery you deserve. Trust your healing instincts as you consider this remarkable journey toward freedom from trauma and the bright future that awaits.

The healing wisdom already lives within you – Havening simply helps you access it.

Creating Your Amazing Future with Hypnotherapy & NLP

What if you could naturally reprogram your mind for success and happiness? As you continue to discover your healing capacity, you might begin to realize that hypnotherapy and NLP (Neuro-Linguistic Programming) offer beautiful pathways to create the positive future you're already ready for.

How These Gentle Approaches Support Your Growth

Hypnotherapy and NLP work perfectly alongside Havening to help you step forward into healing and create the life you truly want. While Havening helps you release trauma patterns, these powerful tools help you build new, empowering patterns that support your amazing recovery and bright future.

When you're ready to choose healing and growth, hypnotherapy guides you into a relaxed, focused state where your mind becomes naturally open to positive change. You can imagine how wonderful it feels when your subconscious mind begins to align with your healing goals and recovery decisions.

You might be surprised by how easily your brain can create new, positive pathways when you decide to heal and grow. Hypnotherapy helps your mind naturally form these beneficial connections while you're in a calm, receptive state. Your brain's natural ability to heal makes creating the changes that you want simple and within reach.

A supporting approach to your healing journey is through setting clear, inspiring goals that your subconscious mind can support. NLP provides proven techniques to help you trust your healing decision and create step-by-step pathways to your desired outcomes. When you begin to see your goals clearly, your mind naturally starts moving toward them.

As you continue to explore your healing potential, hypnotherapy and NLP help you visualize and plan for the meaningful healing and success you're creating. You can allow yourself to imagine living the trauma-free, fulfilling life you deserve, and these tools help make that vision real and achievable.

What Happens During Your Sessions

  • You'll experience a gentle, guided process that feels both relaxing and empowering:

  • Relaxed awareness as you settle into a comfortable, focused state that feels natural and safe

  • Positive suggestion where your mind receives empowering messages that support your healing choice

  • Future visioning as you clearly see yourself achieving your goals and living your desired life

  • Pattern building where your brain creates new, automatic responses that support your success

  • Confidence anchoring as these positive changes become part of who you naturally are

Your Ongoing Transformation

The beautiful thing about hypnotherapy and NLP is how they create lasting change that continues to expand and develop in your daily life. You're not just healing from trauma – you're actively creating extraordinary healing and building the skills and mindset for ongoing wonderful progress.

Trust your healing instincts as you consider how these gentle yet powerful approaches can accelerate your journey toward the inspiring and uplifting future that's already waiting for you. When you commit to recovery and growth, these tools become natural extensions of your inner wisdom and healing strength.

Your brilliant healing capacity includes not just releasing what no longer serves you, but actively creating what does. Hypnotherapy and NLP help you own your healing choice and build the positive, successful life you're determined to create.