Become a Psychosensory Touch Therapist or Coach

Develop core coaching skills through active listening, empathy, and congruent communication to build rapport, ask insightful open-ended questions, and guide clients in mind management and eMDR.

Explore seven havening techniques for psychosensory touch therapy, focusing on event evenings to decode and desensitize trauma, activate delta waves and the amygdala, and reprogram beliefs.

Explore the four elements of event havening and handling—imaginable recall, measuring the subjective unit of distress, soothing touch, and distraction—to desensitize trauma and promote calm.

Build rapport with your client and hold space, listening actively as you guide them through a detailed history of trauma to uncover core beliefs and triggers.

Identify the subject unit of distress on a 1–10 (or 1–100) scale, decode core traumatic memories, and guide clients toward reducing amygdala arousal using mind management techniques.

Guide clients through a detailed trauma history to activate the amygdala, uncovering feelings, perceptions, and negative cognitions. Use desensitization, differentiation, and affirmations like 'I am strong' to reframe trauma.

Learn to use distraction to help clients clear their minds, building on four elements before Havening touch. Use visualization and humming to override negativity and support desensitization.

Guide clients through an experience video with a generalized script and distraction sequence. Use visualization, touch, a 0–10 distress scale, and stair-step steps to desensitize memories and build calm.

Discover how touch releases oxytocin, the cuddle chemical, driving happiness and emotional health. Examine how telling certain stories reinforces mood and how love for ourselves attracts healthier connections.

Explore four facilitated touch techniques for psychosensory therapy, from face to hands, using light, permission-based touch to desensitize and soothe with thumbs and palm center strokes, including self-administered options.

Learn four self-administered touch techniques to calm the mind and body, including gentle face washing over the forehead and under the eyes, and a bilateral crossed-arm method.

Explore phobia generation and desensitization using Haven, decoding the amygdala's response to unconditional threat stimuli and employing visualization to reframe fears and restore rational thinking.

Explore how the brain overgeneralizes fear via the amygdala, storing memories through the senses, and forming a meaning landscape shaped by trauma, negative and confirmation biases.

Explore how core beliefs fuel fears like not being good enough, worthy, or lovable, linked with trauma and social anxiety, and use Socratic questioning, eMDR, timeline therapy to reframe them.

Explore negative cognitions tied to safety and vulnerability, uncover core beliefs and memories, then reframe meanings to empower clients’ decision making in coaching.

Explore how negative cognitions and fears shape momentary control and choices in frightened hyper arousal state, and reframe beliefs through eMDR bilateral desensitization to enable different, empowered decisions.

Explore how trauma shapes negative cognitions and core beliefs into schemas that color thoughts and feelings. Learn bilateral reprocessing and recoding strategies to reframe these beliefs.

Access core memories and root beliefs to transform emotional trauma through chanting and havening touch, guiding clients to replace anger, fear, and shame with safe, calm feelings.

Apply affirmational havening to desensitize events to zero and reinforce a new belief through affirmations and breath work. Track progress with a 1–10 commitment scale and follow-up sessions.

Explore outcome havening to help clients reimagine traumatic events, desensitize fear, and discover a new option through suggestion, visualization, and breathing to reach a relaxed state.

Finish sessions with a hopeful havening ritual and positive affirmations to boost client hope, while guiding reimagining fearful states and acknowledging the body's chemical and vibrational changes.

Guide clients through roleplay, letting them imagine roles to verbalize what they couldn't say, as a coach or therapist. Utilize desensitising and disassociation to release emotion while maintaining boundaries.

Use informational affirmations and 'what if' scenarios to imprint positive beliefs, begin with event handling, and tailor client-led sessions to commit to lasting change.

Identify and manage potential negative outcomes after a session, including fatigue, cognitive dissonance, and an emotional shift, while setting realistic expectations and under-promise to over-deliver.

Becoming a havening practitioner and coach requires practicing techniques, building belief-based coaching skills, and gaining confidence through repeat practice and client work, including working with trauma and anxiety with consent.