Helen Dos Santos

A thank You

Helen is a wonderful coach, she has a beautiful presence and was very attuned to me during all our sessions. I shared a lot with Helen who created a very safe space. I made great progress and really felt confident and empowered to move forward with my new business at the end of our sessions.
NiamhAnne McCann
Leadership, Personal Coach & Business Owner

Just what I needed!

Helen provided a session using Havening Techniques® where she helped me deal with feelings of sadness and insecurities. At the time I had been going through a lot of different uncertainties and a fairly rough breakup so I was having a bad time. The session that we had together was very interesting and helpful to me. The Havening Techniques® that she taught me gave me a sense of calm and peacefulness, and this has helped me to centre my emotions should things start to get to me again. It’s a fantastic way to overcome feelings of insecurities and doubts.
M.A.
Stourbridge, UK

I have hope once again

Helen has helped me through a period in my life that was so unexpected and so painful. I felt so very desperate on some occasions. The negativity towards my persecutors became so profound and I could not make any sense of what had happened to me.
I had always felt that I had been kind, professional and would work many hours over my contract to make sure the working environment was safe and the team felt supported. A resistance to a national change created a divide within the team and unscrupulous strategies were used by some to undermine a strategic project. As one of the leaders, I was directly scrutinised. I felt that my opinion was not considered and I had been condemned and sentenced without a trial.

Over time, my self-belief in my skills of 36 years and my trust in others began to waver. I made contact with Helen in January 2020. I was referred to her from the HR team. By now, I felt I was pretty much a shell, with not much to offer the world.

Helen is a warm and compassionate listener. As a private individual, it was hard for me to showcase how utterly pathetic I truly felt.
She did not patronise, she listened. She did not offer unrealistic explanations as others had done. She listened. She offers a range of resources should I choose to pursue.

She was positive and humorous. She listened. Helen is very relatable and she listened.

Helen tried different therapies to try and unravel the very deep seated hurt that I felt. These were NLP time line therapy and ‘Havening techniques’.

I always felt safe, nurtured and rational with Helen. Psychological safety is really important when an individual feels threatened and hurt. Helen always provided this in a really kind empathic way.

Nothing was ever pushed on me. Havening was suggested. I was rather cynical about this therapy initially. However, after a few sessions I began to change how I felt, the hurt became less intense and I started to move on with trusting individuals again. It is difficult to explain but positivity started to outweigh my negativity. The hurt weakened.

Helen has given me hope and self-belief that anything is possible. I am starting to re-build my career and self-invent who I am.
I would not have got to this stage with Helen’s help. I truly would recommend her skills to those facing challenges in their lives that may feel unsurmountable and hopeless. Helen’s therapy and techniques are very subtle but effective.
I had always felt I was a strong resilient individual. However, situations manifest that can be devastating. Sometimes each of us need help. Helen was that individual for me. I cannot thank Helen enough.

2 Years on!

Two years on and I would recommend Helen in a heart beat. She truly changed my life for the better and for many of my relationships with friends family and work colleagues. Helen worked with me around a particular issue that stayed with me my whole life and affected my life in ways I didn't even realise. Havening seemed to work almost instantly. Helens patience, compassion, trust and sincerity were unconditional and i am changed for the better forever. Helen Thank you for your support when I needed it, you truly are a precious treasure.
Josie Humphreys
Baker creative of Castelles Cupcakes and Bakes.

So many things you can't unsee

This was the headline in the National Express where Nurse Jessica Filoteo talked of the impact of the emotional toll of caring for dying Covid patients at a London NHS Trust hospital. A 35 year old, who before the pandemic worked in a cardiac catheterisation lab had been redeployed to intensive care.

Jessica said “Everywhere I turned I saw intubated patients who were unconscious or really sick. I have never seen anything like it…quite overwhelming. When I was told I was being assigned to intensive care I was really scared. It was really hard every time I finished my shift to shut my mind off because there are so many things you can’t unsee. The first few week I was really exhausted. Not only are the hours long, the demands at work take so much out of you. There were many times I would cry at work and on the way home.”

This story will be echoed across the county.

I made contact with Jessica and offered her a Havening session. I suggested she looked at the Havening website www.havening.org for further information. Within 2 days Jessica came back to me and wanted to experience Havening for herself.

After just one hour of Havening and without any disclosure of information, Jessica reported feeling calmer and relaxed. She then had two days off work feeling very calm and “emotionally settled”.

Jessica reported the following a week later:

“I have not had the need to practice the Havening on myself as my days have been pretty good. I was working in intensive care this weekend and being there and feeling like I was in a neutral state throughout my shift was really good. I have felt calmer in myself and been able to switch off after my shift. I was not expecting to feel like that, so I am guessing that it must have had something to do with our session”.