Vida Rye

Whilst Vida Rye specialises in supporting those who are having an anxiety or fear-filled pregnancy, or who have trauma or depression after the birth of their baby, Vida works more generally with those who are experiencing distress from trauma-related conditions or anxieties. Vida helps people to create a place of safety in their mind-body so that unhelpful thought patterns, behaviours and trauma can be released, and a calmer mind landscape created.  She also commits time to providing therapy for health care workers who have experienced distress whilst supporting in birth (or in more general health settings).

Vida has dedicated the last three decades to guide those who are pregnant to learn that the mind-body connection has so much more power than they realise in pregnancy, birth and parenting  She is a passionate advocate for informed, evidence based choices and bringing the joy back to birth.  She strongly believes that havening has the power to wonderfully transform the journey into parenthood.

Vida majored in Psychology, and in the final year of her degree she studied postnatal depression, and then later trained, certified and worked as a doula (birth companion and postnatal support) with prisoners giving birth while completing their sentences, and with new parents out in the community.  She also shared positive touch as a certified infant massage instructor teaching new parents baby massage techniques.

For the 14 years before becoming a havening practitioner, Vida had been facilitating courses as a registered Calmbirth® Educator in Wellington, NZ, and has immersed herself in the birthing community, working and volunteering for local non-profit groups and charitable organisations.  Whilst studying Clinical Hypnotherapy she discovered havening. 

Anxiety, stress and depression are generally a result of past distress or trauma, and they play out in weird and sometimes not-so-helpful ways when there is an underlying vulnerable landscape.  Over and over, Vida has been stunned by the power of this psycho-sensory Havening technique's ability to enable people to literally change their minds and their ways of being, when they access their "let it happen mind" and allow their subconscious to do the healing it needs to do.

Vida works with compassion and respect, and loves celebrating with people their uniqueness and guiding them in a gentle, non-judgemental way to heal themselves. 

Please book a session with Vida, either in person in Te Awa Kairangi - the Hutt Valley, Wellington region of New Zealand.  If you are out of area she will happily arrange a time for a havening session over zoom.