Midwest Haven
Become a Certified Havening Techniques Practitioner: Elevate Your Practice, Transform Lives.
Midwest Haven was founded as a training clinic dedicated to educating others on the groundbreaking advancements in the Havening Techniques® treatment modality, ultimately leading to better outcomes for individuals and communities. Expert practitioners Nicole Carreon, LMFT, and Holli Engelhart, LICSW founded Midwest Haven to support the healing process of clients, and to share and educate fellow clinicians, coaches, holistic providers, medical professionals, and many others to build professional and personal growth with Havening Techniques.
Mission
Midwest Haven’s mission is to alleviate suffering resulting from traumatic events/adverse experiences and to build and strengthen resilience to protect from future stressors. This ensures that providers can offer the most advanced and compassionate care, transforming lives and promoting well-being.
What is Havening?
Havening is a neuroscience-based therapeutic modality that utilizes specific sensory input patterns to alter neural pathways associated with emotional distress and psychological trauma. Developed through empirical research in neurobiology, this approach leverages the brain's neuroplasticity through precise touch protocols. When combined with targeted cognitive exercises, this method effectively disrupts the encoding of traumatic memories and stress responses.
“When an event or experience is perceived as traumatic or very stressful it becomes immutably encoded, often with life-altering consequences. However, recent research from the field of neuroscience has shown us how it’s possible to modify this encoding. The Havening Techniques are methods which are designed to change the brain to de-traumatize the memory and permanently remove its negative effects from both our psyche and body.”
Holli Engelhart, LICSW(left)- Dr. Steven Ruden, Co-founder of The Havening Techniques (center)- Nicole Carreon, LMFT (right)
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