Elise Askey

Elise Askey Bsc Ms, is based in Auckland, New Zealand and has over 8 years experience working in the rehabilitation  space. She specialises in disordered eating, eating disorder recovery, body image and anxiety related gut issues. Elise has a trauma informed, Health at Every Size practice and has extra skills in CBT, ACT, Internal family systems and is informed in somatics, polyvagal theory, embodiment and somatic experiencing. 

Elise uses Havening to support people on their journey to: support normalised eating, reduce anxiety related gut dysfunction, support regulation with eating and reduce fear around weight, shape and food.

If you get nausea, stomach pain, vomiting, constipation, diarrhoea and it's related to anxiety or a dysregulated nervous system, Elise can use havening to support you to self regulate before eating and support normative digestion.

If you have ever been on the diet cycle: restriction, weight loss, then binge eating with feelings of guilt and shame and weight regain - then Havening can support you towards normative eating and break the vicious diet cycle. (It’s not your fault - blame diet culture!)

If you have disordered eating or are in the late stages of eating disorder recovery (medically well, no longer under a specialist eating disorder team), havening can support to reduce the residual feelings of fear around food, numbers on the scale and reduce the emotional charge felt due to the illness or treatment. 

If you have ever had thoughts like: "I'm fat," "I shouldn't eat that", "I'm worthless", "food is evil", "I don't deserve to eat," and had feelings of anxiety or shame around your body and how you eat, then Elise can use havening to support you to come to a place of calm around your eating and  body, and reduce the shame that is experienced.

Clients have found havening to be supportive to:

• feel more calm around eating and meal times 

• reduced fear responses to weighing and numbers on the scale

• increased interoception (internal body cues)

• reduced gut discomfort after eating

• increased self awareness and self respect 

• even been able to reduce anxiety medications significantly, after only three sessions!

“You don’t have a body, you are your body.” 

We live in an increasingly disconnected world and many people feel their body is the enemy and something to control or manage. Diet and beauty industry make billions of dollars every year, feeding these messages and encouraging us to buy products and services, to change our body. This leads to increased disembodiment and disconnection and feelings of guilt, shame and not-good-enoughness. Think of all the things you could do and enjoy, if you weren’t so focused on how you look and what you eat? 

The time is right for reconnecting, being one with your body, embracing embodiment, self compassion and self love. Havening, with Elise, can help you on that journey.