Trauma & Nervous System
A neuroscience-based approach to resolving trauma, reducing anxiety and restoring safety in the body.
Havening Techniques are a psychosensory therapy developed by Dr Ronald Ruden. They use specific touch, called Havening Touch, to change the way the brain processes traumatic or stressful memories. The gentle touch generates delta waves in the brain, which permanently remove the emotional charge from distressing experiences.
Unlike talk therapy, Havening works directly with the neuroscience of how trauma is encoded in the brain. It doesn't require you to relive painful memories in detail. Instead, it targets the amygdala — the brain's threat detection centre — and depotentiates the receptors that keep traumatic memories emotionally active.
The result is that you can still remember an event, but it no longer triggers a stress response. The emotional charge is gone.
The Process
The distressing memory or emotion is briefly brought to awareness, activating the neural pathway where the trauma is stored.
Gentle, soothing touch is applied to the arms, palms and face. This produces delta waves that begin to alter the brain's encoding of the memory.
The emotional receptors linked to the memory are permanently removed. The memory remains, but its power to cause distress is gone.
Havening is effective for a wide range of emotional and psychological conditions. It is particularly powerful for people who feel stuck in patterns of anxiety, fear or emotional reactivity that talk therapy hasn't resolved.
Your Practitioner
Kamaia is a former medical doctor turned trauma and nervous system specialist. She is a certified Havening Techniques Practitioner and Trainer, blending her medical background with nervous system neuroscience and trauma-informed approaches. Kamaia works at the level of survival responses, stored stress and unresolved emotional imprints that can keep the body in dysregulation.
She believes that when we create genuine safety in the body, trauma can resolve naturally, allowing clients to shift from survival into healing.
BMedSci(Hons), CertHSc, MBChB
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If you've tried talking about it and nothing has shifted, Havening offers a different way forward. It starts with a session.
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