A Havening Techniques practitioner brings a unique skill set to help clients overcome anxiety, often enhancing the effectiveness of other therapeutic approaches.
Havening is not something that you will use in place of a particular school of thought, it is integrative. Havening can be incorporated into practices such as mindfulness, Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP) and hypnotherapy.
Key Skills of a Havening Practitioner
- Expertise in Havening Techniques: A practitioner is skilled in applying Havening Touch, a gentle and soothing touch to the upper arms, palms, and face, which generates delta waves in the brain associated with a sense of safety and well-being. They are also knowledgeable about the different types of Havening (Event, Transpirational, Affirmational, Outcome, Hopeful, Role and Iffirmational) and how to apply them.
- Trauma-Informed Approach: Practitioners understand how trauma is encoded in the brain and body, enabling them to pinpoint the cause of anxiety quickly. They also recognise that people may crave things like drugs and alcohol to self-sooth trauma.
- Facilitation Skills: A Havening practitioner can act as a guide, illuminating the client’s path to healing. They can lead clients to identify and activate the emotional core of their issues.
- Creating a Safe Space: A practitioner knows how to create a comfortable and professional environment that promotes trust and safety, which is essential for healing.
- Touch: The ability to apply Havening Touch in a gentle and comforting way to create a sense of safety and reduce distress. The client can also self-apply the touch.
- Understanding the Science: They understand the neuroscience behind Havening and can explain to clients how the touch helps to heal by affecting the brain and body.
- Adaptive skills: Havening is an effective, adaptive tool. Traditional methods may be more effective when used with havening because it removes the amygdala filter from the process.
Enhancing Other Approaches
The electrochemical environment that Havening creates in the mind and body can enhance traditional approaches because it removes that amygdala filter from the therapeutic process.
- Increased Effectiveness of Therapy: Havening helps people move through resistance and feel safe going into scary places.
- Empowerment: Clients gain a tool they can use and feel secure using between sessions.
- Safety for Clinicians: Havening creates a safe haven for the clinician, who also receives delta waves and does not encode the patient’s stress.
- Creating a Hypnotic State: Havening helps the client access a hypnotic, freely-associating state, while still feeling in control.
Combining Havening with Other Therapies
Havening can be used as an adjunctive tool, not in place of a particular school of thought. It is beautifully integrative.
- NLP and Havening: Some practitioners combine NLP processes with Havening to address neurological, biochemical, and electrochemical aspects.
- Hypnotherapy: Havening can be combined with trance work. It can also be integrated with conversational hypnosis.
- Energy Psychology: Havening is a great tool to use alongside energy psychology.
- Coaching: Whilst Havening removes encoded trauma, coaching helps facilitate a huge shift and helps the person move forward in their lives.
- Mindfulness: Havening can be incorporated into mindfulness practices.
Summary
A Havening practitioner brings skills in applying the Havening Techniques, creating a safe environment, and understanding trauma. Havening can enhance other approaches by creating a safe space and promoting access to deeper levels of processing. It can be combined with various modalities, including NLP, hypnotherapy, and coaching.
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