I support therapists wanting to know more about the big topic that is religious trauma through my online course What I Wish My Therapist Knew; and through the Religious Trauma Collective.
I work with people experiencing it themselves, including cult survivors and those living with the impact of harm in high-control spaces.Â
I support people through trauma healing. Our bodies know how to heal from a broken arm and from trauma. Havening techniques® are a beautiful way to bring these together.Â
I offer online courses to provide accessible and flexible learning for those seeking to understand and heal from Religious Trauma.
What I wish my therapist knew about Religious Trauma is for therapists wanting language and consolidated resources for working with clients who have experienced religious trauma. It includes my own story, The Sentimental Non-Believer.
Freedom from Religious Trauma is for those who have experienced the pain of disconnection from faith and/or faith communities and are seeking healing. It’s the course I needed as the ground gave way beneath me. It’s loaded with ways to understand what you’re going through, tools for grounding and settling yourself when emotions feel big, and ways to rebuild community and spirituality.
Find out more here.
Havening techniques® also known as Havening Touch, create a safe haven, a healing environment in the brain.
Repetitive movements that you do yourself – you can choose from rubbing your hands together, downward shoulder strokes, strokes above the eyebrows and then action of wiping away tears – can ground and centre us.
When done in a guided way, while naming emotions and doing exercises to distract the brain, these can also result in the memory centre of our brain filing distressing events where they belong, in the past. Not as live events crashing into the present and causing distress.
If you named your reactivity at a 9 or a 10 before the exercise, this process can take it down to 0. And it stays there. Here’s an illustration of how.
You can book a Havening session or get in touch to find out more about this powerful modality, here.
Counselling allows you to talk freely about areas in your life where you’re feeling stuck or in pain and where you can feel your emotions without judgement. It’s a guided, safe and confidential space.Â
I’m an integrative therapist and also incorporate psychotherapy tools such as Havening and embodied processing as well as a number of other modalities.
I offer online sessions across Australia and New Zealand and in-person sessions from my Marrickville room in Sydney’s Inner West.Â
You can read more here.
I also offer a free 15 minute intro chat so you can ask anything else you’d like to know, which you can book here.
