Catherine Hanson

I am an experienced and mature Registered Child Protection and Health Care Social Worker/Counselling Professional, having practiced for 30 years as a Social Worker and therapist/counsellor in the UK; New Zealand; Solomon Islands; the USA and Northern Thailand. Over the 30 years I have worked with Children and Families (predominantly in the Child Protection sphere); the Health Care sector (including Palliative Care and Cancer Psychosocial work/Traumatic Brain Injury) and Humanitarian work (including with child-sex-trafficking practices).

I am based at the bottom of the South Island in New Zealand and by August 2021 I will be fully registered to provide therapy to clients that have experienced sexual violence, through the New Zealand Government’s Accident Compensation Corporation (ACC).  This is in addition to now proudly and eagerly completing the certification process to be a Havening Practitioner.

Having been the recipient of the life-changing Havening Techniques, providing me with much healing from my own complex PTSD, I now have a full appreciation and understanding of the complexities associated with trauma and I want to share this potential and healing with others, knowing that this revolutionary psychosensory therapy provides us with a way to make the most of our neural plasticity and to be free of unnecessary fears, blocks and pain. 

Each of my therapeutic interventions come laden with respect, acceptance, compassion, appreciation, connection, inclusivity and safety, all whilst releasing stuck emotions/frozen feelings/buried trauma and overwhelming anxieties. I embody my knowledge of, and experiences with, various cultures and communities within my work and embrace any opportunity to educate and empower people to remember their very own healing potential that is deeply seated within them.