Kathleen Cowan

I have been practicing therapeutically for almost 20 years.  Married for 46 years and after being a medical secretary I left my career to become a mother to two girls and my eldest son who due to a birth trauma was born with cerebral palsy.  This saw us as a family fighting adversity.  My son was the love of our lives and totally inspirational to all of us, we overcame many challenges and difficulties in life.   This took me down a path of self-discovery, healing and learning therapeutic tools that in turn would help others.   I am dedicated and passionate about helping others to heal from their emotional pain and unresolved trauma.

I feel very privileged and thankful to have discovered havening through my work with Integrated Services and become a qualified havening practitioner with the help of Stephen Travers.

I use both my own professional and personal experiences to recognise how best to serve a client. Working mainly using a person-centred approach but also drawing from other theoretical approaches and tools.  Havening is a very effective compliment to add to some of the other techniques that I use.   I work with a range of clients some of whom would be high risk with mood disorders.   I am a great believer in the quality of the relationship between client and myself, research has shown that the therapeutic relationship is one of the strongest predictors of successful treatment.  The client is the expert on his/her own difficulties, I am just the guide.  Havening has added profoundly to that relationship too.

I feel extremely privileged that a client has allowed me to walk with them on part of their journey of transformation and learning and therefore my role is to create a safe place and environment where they can re build their self-confidence, self-love and self-esteem whilst making positive changes in their lives.  Havening helps empower clients to aide their own healing.  It increases resiliency through psycho-sensory touch, it’s simplicity and effectiveness can be amazing.  It gives an opportunity to live a healthier, happier and more productive life using physical touch to create this change.  It has given me a deeper set of resources to not only benefit and empower clients but can benefit others around them.  It is a life-long tool that can be used long after therapy has ended.

Kathleen Cowan

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