Frequently Asked Questions

The Havening Techniques® system is comprised of protocols and methods that rely on the electrochemical makeup of our body to create healing. It is an efficient and effective tool for healing emotional disturbances, PTSD, complex trauma, phobias, chronic pain, panic disorder, and anxiety.

As a psycho-sensory treatment approach, the Havening Techniques are an integrative psychotherapy approach compatible with traditional and contemporary treatment paradigms including, psycho-dynamic, mindfulness, cognitive-behavioral, psychoanalytic, experiential, systemic and others.

It uses physical touch to generate Delta Brain waves which them enables changes to emotions and memory so healing can be achieved. The touch can be self applied or by a Certified Therapist.

NLP comprises models, techniques, and strategies to help us understand how the language we use influences the way we think and the results we get! NLP as a collection of models, techniques and strategies for modelling excellence, in order to help us better understand how our thought processes and behaviour, including how the language we use, influences the way we think and the results we get. Modelling excellence in any field enables us to bring about a positive change in ourselves and others.

A literal translation of the phrase 'Neuro Linguistic Programming' is that NLP empowers, enables and teaches us to better understand the way our brain (neuro) processes the words we use (linguistic) and how that can impact on our interactions (programming) past, present and future . It gives us strategies for observing human behaviour and learning from the best (and worst) of that!

Simply put, change is possible - all you need is a desire to change and a willingness to learn new ways of being…with yourself, your thoughts and with others.

NLP has been defined as the “users manual for your mind” because studying NLP gives us insights into how our thinking patterns can affect every aspect of our lives.

Because NLP models excellence a lot of techniques used in coaching has been modeled from the best Therapists, Strategists, Sales, Hypnotists, elite athletes and successful people around the world.

My Therapeutic Life Coaching™ integrates key principles of NLP, Havening Techniques, positive psychology, hypnosis, life coaching, and mindfulness.

The Life coaching aspect takes the client’s current starting point as an acceptable neutral ground and is more action-based from that point onward. A life coach enables the person receiving treatment to take control of their life and take action to steer it toward their goals.

The Therapeutic aspect understands that we are a product of our past and need to honour and heal that first to reach that acceptable neutral ground so goals may be achieved without falling back into patterns that do not serve you going into the future.

Therapy, also known as Talk Therapy, counseling or psychotherapy, tends to focus on Why things have happened; many session will be on history taking and diving into your past before any real solutions are offered to move on from these issues. It tends to be long-term process.  In this sense, therapy focuses on the past.

My Therapeutic Life Coaching takes the best of therapy, Life Coaching and other modalities, to offer a safe and trusting environment to gently guide you from the negative past experiences into the positive future you envision for yourself. It is solution orientated without the need to for you to dive deeply into undesirable memories and dwell there.

My Therapeutic Life Coaching works to heal past traumas and issues to change self-destructive habits, repair and improve relationships and work through painful feelings, to gain skills to inoculate against future negative experiences.

Home education is what I call Homeschooling or Life Schooling. Our children have never been to a school. They learn through living and experiences.

Many families do not like the term Homeschooling because they are not a school. They educate their children not school them.

There are as many ways to educate your children as there are letters in the alphabet.

Yes, you may purchase ready made curriculum and replicate school at home, some have success, others do not with this. You can easily create your own curriculum and use the Australian Curriculum website as guidance.

You can pick and choose curriculum for each subject and supplement them with other information.

You may trust your child to learn what they require when it is relevant to them and this is more often called Unschooling, child led learning or life schooling.

The benefit of home education is that your child gains solid knowledge before moving onto the next level of their learning. There are little to no distractions and they get the attention they need when they need it.

You can offer your child learning around experiences, for example, want to learn about water and irrigation, go visit farmers and water catchment areas. Want to learn about wood work, visit the men's shed. Want to learn about contemporary art, visit local galleries, ask for lessons, visit larger galleries and whilst visiting these places you can lean about geography, different cultures, street names, hospitality and public transport and so much more!

Most home educated kids are keen to learn because they are not forced to learn. Its amazing how much information a person can retain when they have fun learning it.

Home educating nurtures a love of life long learning.

For more Frequently Asked Questions About Home Schooling Visit the Home School Services Tab

"Trauma is an inability to inhabit one's body without being possessed by its defenses and the emotional numbing that shuts down all experience, including pleasure and satisfaction" - Bessel van der Kolk

"Trauma is a psychic wound that hardens you psychologically and then interferes with your ability to grow and develop. It pains you and now you're acting out of pain. It induces fear and now you're acting out of fear. Trauma is not what happens to you, its what happens inside of you as a result of what happened to you. Trauma is that scarring that makes you less flexible, more rigid, less feeling, and more defended." - Gabor Mate

"Trauma can be anything that happens too much, too fast, too long coupled with not enough of what should have happened that was resourcing." - Resmaa Menakem

Types of Trauma:

Shock Trauma PTSD

Developmental Trauma

Trans-generational Trauma

Trauma or an event leaves a marker on our brain, this marker is for future threats, so when something like that happens again, or something similar we now know there is a threat so we act accordingly. But the problem with this means that we may be responding to things that are not actually a threat any more. So, yes that was helpful when fleeing from saber tooth tigers or nearing a cliff edge. Now it may no longer serve.

Many people have suffered a trauma and may be unaware. Seek assistance because we need to heal the past to be empowered for the future.