“Havening Techniques® facilitate rapid, effective release of encoded traumatic memories, using a gentle, client-centered approach. It works by harnessing the power of neuroscience to “depotentiate” traumatically encoded or stress-induced changes that occur in the limbic system of our brain, which is often referred to as our “survival brain.” When we use the term “depotentiate” we mean that we are reversing the effects of the neurons that are responsible for originally encoding a traumatic event (Ruden, 2019)."

Do you have that thing you just can’t get rid of? A memory that still haunts you and filters your perception and experience of life still today? Would you like to be less stressed and better able to manage your life and emotions? Is there a phobia you feel trapped by? Are you fearful of the future, more anxious than you are able to deal with? Or maybe you just want to enhance your performance in a certain area or build resilience and positivity into your life. Would you like to be more calm and peaceful when dealing with present stressors?

“Trauma has nothing whatsoever to do with cognition. It has to do with your body being reset to interpret the world as a dangerous place. It’s not something you can talk yourself out of.”
- Dr. Bessel van der Kolk

The Havening Techniques can be used in many ways:

• For clearing encoded Traumas, Fears, Anxieties, Compulsions, etc

• For Well-Being and reducing Stress as a Self-Help tool

• For Peak Performance and Personal Enhancement

The Havening Techniques can be done with a facilitator over Zoom or in person. Self-Havening can be done just about anywhere at anytime—healing is right there in your own hands. When you have a session with me I will show you how to use Havening for yourself so you can continue the amazing journey of healing your brain on your own time. Scroll to the bottom of this page for some video explanations of Havening.

“The protocols and methods we employ in The Havening Techniques system allow us to create healing by relying on the electrochemical makeup of our brain (Sumich et. al., 2022). The functional mechanisms used are similar to those in EMDR and Tapping, but they include the latest advancements in neuroscience and harness the powerful healing opportunities of mindful touch.” Dr. Kate Truitt

It appears to be a very simple process, but years of research show how this process has the ability to make a powerful biological change in the brain, whilst the client remains in a ‘safe haven’ throughout. It’s incredibly comfortable, therapeutic and naturally relaxing.

The neuroscience explains how traumatic events get ‘hard-wired’ into a part of the brain called the Amygdala and how a molecular mechanism can rapidly and permanently delete these traumatic memories.

“Did you know that your brain has a little timekeeper within it called the Dorsolateral prefrontal cortex? When a trauma is encoded, this little part of our brain pushes pause at the moment of the encoding leaving the brain in a state of permanent vigilance to stimuli that represents the trauma. This is core reason why the past feels like it’s happening in the present moment.” Dr. Kate Truitt

The key to healing trauma is to create high levels of Delta Waves in the brain, which triggers the healing mechanism. During Havening, the brain is literally rewired to remove the effects of trauma. After Havening, you will be able to recall the event but the emotional reactions and stress response will be completely gone.

The Delta Waves are generated with very specific forms of soothing touch to the hands, upper arms and face. Specialized skin nerves send signals directly into the brain to change the brain waves and the brain chemistry.

The Havening Techniques are not to be confused with EFT or TFT which are based on Traditional Chinese Medicine and use tapping on various meridian points.  Havening is a powerful biologically engineered therapy and produces more rapid response and less distress for the client.  There is no tapping involved.  Most clients do not believe that Havening will work and are astonished when it does.

Because Havening doesn’t require the client to discuss the content of the issues, trauma or distressing memory, the client feels more comfortable too. We can work content free but we can also discuss the issue..it’s up to the client.

Chronic stress changes the landscape of our brain, making us increasingly vulnerable and susceptible to disease, anxiety, more stress, fear, chronic pain and overwhelming tensions. Havening heals the brain and brings back greater resiliency, thus supporting a strong neural landscape.

What Are Havening Techniques Suitable For Treating? 

• Anxiety

• Trauma

• Depression

• Mental Blocks or Mental Fog

• Perinatal Trauma

• Traumatic Birth

• Perinatal Anxiety

• Perinatal Depression

• Phobias

• Painful Memories

• Feelings of Being “Stuck” in Your Life & Fearful to Move Forward

Sessions and Workshops

To book a session please go here: https://www.juliegosh.com/book-a-session

I also do workshops where I teach self-healing to groups. This is a huge passion of mine, so please let me know if you would like a workshop to be held for your group. This is how the world will heal, through the realization of agency and through being proactive with your own brain. There are fantastic tools, including havening, plus others, for regulating stress and showing the brain how to stay calm and peaceful. This can all be taught to kids as well. Healing is in our own hands..we are biologically hard-wired with this capacity for self-healing. So exciting!

Here is a great article on the neuroscience of Havening, a must read:

The Havening Techniques: New Neuroscientific Insights Shine Light on Ancient Healing Practices