Havening Touch Techniques® in Fife – A Gentle Approach to Healing Trauma
What Is Havening?
Havening is a gentle, hands-on technique that helps the brain and body release stored trauma, stress, and emotional pain. It involves light, soothing touch, usually on the arms, hands, and face to help calm the nervous system and shift how your mind responds to past experiences.
It’s a powerful yet non invasive approach that supports deep emotional release, and it’s especially effective for people who have been holding onto trauma, anxiety, fear, or overwhelming emotions for years, sometimes without even realising it.
Havening doesn’t require you to relive traumatic events or explain everything in detail. That’s one of the reasons I use it in my practice here in Fife, it allows people to heal safely and gently.
How It Works
Havening Touch Techniques work with the brain’s neuroplasticity, its ability to change, adapt, and rewire. During a session, we use gentle touch alongside calming words and specific visualisations. This helps “de-link” the emotional charge from painful memories, so they no longer affect you in the same way.
The process helps the brain create new, safer associations. You don’t forget what happened, but the emotional intensity, fear, or anxiety attached to it begins to fade. Your nervous system learns to respond differently, from a place of calm rather than reactivity.
This is why Havening is particularly useful for trauma recovery, phobias, anxiety, and even chronic pain or shame.
What It Can Help With
I use Havening in Fife and online to support people who are ready to feel different, who want to stop being triggered or overwhelmed by the past. This technique can help with:
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Anxiety and panic attacks. Calms overactive responses and helps you feel grounded
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Trauma and PTSD. Releases stored emotional pain in a safe, contained way
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Phobias and fears. Shifts how the brain processes triggers
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Grief and emotional overwhelm. Gently supports processing and release
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Negative self-beliefs. Softens long-standing inner criticism and shame
If you’ve tried talk therapy but it didn’t go deep enough or you’re aware that trauma is held in the body as well as the mind then Havening could be the missing piece.
What to Expect in a Session
Sessions usually last between 60 and 90 minutes. We’ll start with a calm, grounded chat about what’s been going on, and then I’ll guide you through the process. The pace is always led by what feels safe and comfortable for you.
You’ll experience the Havening touch for yourself, soothing strokes on the arms, hands, or face, as I guide you through gentle visualisations, affirmations, and emotional processing techniques. Many people describe it as deeply calming, like a nervous system reset.
Sessions are available in person in Fife, or online from anywhere in the World. Whether face-to-face or on Zoom, it also works just as well virtually, all you need is a quiet space where you won’t be disturbed.
Is Havening Right for You?
If you’ve been feeling anxious, on edge, or emotionally stuck, and you’re ready for a new approach that doesn’t involve rehashing the past over and over, then this might be exactly what you need.
This technique allows you to feel safe in your own body again. To stop reacting from old wounds. To breathe a bit more easily and to finally let go.
Ready to Begin?
I offer 1:1 sessions in Fife and online, always in a calm, compassionate environment. If you’re curious about how it might help you, the best place to start is a free, no-pressure call.
Excited to get started?
4 Edensmuir Court
Glenrothes
KY7 6GQ
Phone: 07779 151555