For those who don’t know, i have a youtube channel.
It focuses primarily on talks i’ve given or on videos that my students produce as assignments in my various courses. I’m very proud of the hard work my students have done, particularly in trying to get more evidence-based psychology onto youtube in the form of training videos and case studies. However, like much of youtube, the comment section can often be a wretched hive of scum and villainy. A recent comment on a video describing trauma-focused cognitive behavioral therapy (tf-cbt)
What can you do if you suffer from phobias, panic attacks, traumatic memories or other emotional disturbances? like millions of americans, you might choose to see a psychiatrist or other therapist. You could engage in some form of talk therapy to gain a fuller understanding of your emotions. You might take an antidepressant or other medication. Both talk therapy and medication (often used together) are helpful, but they may not eliminate the root causes of your distress. New approach: havening. It’s a technique (“havening” means to put into a safe place) that uses touch to change how electrical signals are transmitted in the brain.
To date, trauma treatment has relied on exposure and talk therapy techniques to address the symptoms of ptsd and other co-occurring disorders. The goal has been increasing exposure to the fear based stimuli in order to decrease sensitization to the trauma triggers thus reducing, and hopefully removing, the symptoms of anxiety, ptsd, panic attacks, and other phobic responses. Unfortunately, these techniques, while effective, are extremely painful not only for the client but also for the clinician to administer. These treatment techniques may inadvertently re-traumatize the client or result in vicarious traumatization of the clinician. Many trauma treatments have historically focused on executive processing centers of the brain in order to use language, logic, and rational thought processes to reduce the trauma response.
What can Havening do?
We provide havening in reigate, surrey and online. Havening is an amazing new psychosensory therapy to help quickly release negative emotions and trauma.
When you book your havening appointment with us, you will be meeting with keith dewey. Keith has been a qualified havening practitioner since 2019, and is also trained in counselling, coaching and psychotherapy. Havening is often used to help with anxiety, panic attacks, anger, post traumatic stress, ptsd,
sadness, phobias and worries. It can help you to make deep changes within the brain. Our havening clinic is in reigate, in surrey, near
horsham, crawley, epsom, esher, dorking, cobham, redhill, sutton, croydon, kingston and london.
Havening is a type of psychosensory therapy first developed by author and physician ronald ruden. It was brought to mainstream attention by british hypnotist paul mckenna. It is an approach to healing that focuses on deactivating the fear we feel in response to trauma, phobias, and anxiety. In therapy, patients are supported as they recall their traumatic memories – memories of emotionally overwhelming and disturbing events and experiences. Recalling these memories can seem daunting, but the problem is that they come up anyway, whether or not the person is in therapy. Havening aims to reduce the power that these memories have over our well-being, so that clients can eventually recall the memory without having to experience the emotional and psychological difficulties that have been associated with it in the past.
These three components when applied alter the brain waves to allow for the receptor to become internalized and thus block any response. The details are in dr ruden’s book when the past is always present. The question of how havening touch affects the brain to produce this effect led to research on everything from traditional chinese medicine and their acupuncture sites to the neurobiology of traditional extinction techniques. This led to an understanding that all sensory input could affect the brain, and the field of psychosensory therapy was born. Through his research he created havening - meaning to take someone to a place of safety.
Can The New Havening Technique Really Cure Trauma and Fear?
Havening is new, relaxing and an exciting breakthrough in therapy. Diane beck provides havening techniques therapy in central manchester and in central london. Havening has been shown to be highly successfully over skype or facetime to reduce stress responses and symptoms and to eleviate negative emotional responses. Havening is described by its creator ronald ruden md, as a complimentary therapy and a powerful tool to treat the consequential results of encoded traumatic or stressful memories’ an ‘amygdala depotentiation therapy’. Ever heard of the ‘fight and flight response’? our fears and stress responses hold the key to understanding the way we have ‘coded’ in the brain to protect us from similar threat stimuli in the future.
There are many forms of havening, but 3 of the most common are called transpirational, affirmational, and event havening.