This interview examines how I am changing medical massage through integrated health care innovation. This discussion came following the global recognition award that I received in January 2025 for excellence in holistic therapy and education, which was also awarded again this year. I am combining my medical expertise from my career as a nurse and a midwife with specialist treatments and comprehensive training programs for other therapists, that are establishing new industry standards for inclusive care.
What fundamental misconception about therapeutic massage did your medical background help you to identify and address?
Since I qualified in massage in 1997, a lot has changed. The biggest change has been that massage has been transformed from a bit of pampering and relaxation, self-care, to about two-thirds of clients coming in for a massage, now coming for a medical condition or sports injury. Unfortunately, the basic training hasn’t really changed with that transformation in the industry. This means that a lot of therapists are newly qualified without any real information about even the most basic medical conditions that will come through the door, and without that understanding, it’s going to be very difficult for them to provide effective therapy for clients with these conditions.
The biggest thing that my medical background has really helped me to identify is where massage can actually be adapted to help with issues that we had previously not really taken much notice of. For example, when students first do their level three basic training, they’re given a list of contraindications. Medical studies have created new ways of thinking and new advances in treatments, but that contraindication list still has not changed. In fact, there are quite a few of the contraindications that students are taught which aren’t completely contraindicated if you have the knowledge to understand the physiology behind those conditions in order to provide a safe treatment. A good example of that would be with oncology massage. Unless you’ve done specific oncology training, whereby you will develop that knowledge, then no, you shouldn’t be treating, but it’s not an absolute contraindication. High blood pressure is another one, and we are taught if someone has high blood pressure, then we shouldn’t treat them because of the increased circulatory effect that massage will have. However, it’s actually been shown that massage can help reduce blood pressure by warming the tissues, promoting vasodilation, blood vessels open up, therefore reducing blood pressure, and so it actually can be quite beneficial. I’ve had clients with high blood pressure who have really been well managed and been able to come off the medication through the use of regular massage, which has helped reduce their blood pressure.
Your experience highlights the gap between traditional training and modern medical needs. Could you share a specific instance where your integrated approach led to a breakthrough in treating a condition previously considered untreatable through massage?
A regular client of mine initially came to me when I held an open morning for people with hypertension. He had been experiencing a lot of panic attacks, a lot of anxiety, and he was on medication for high blood pressure. He initially started seeing me every other week, and then that went on to weekly sessions, having a relaxing Swedish massage with aromatherapy and vagus nerve toning.
He has to have yearly medicals for work which involve blood pressure and lung function checks. When he first started to see me, his blood pressure had gone up to around the 150s over the 90s, and when he did the lung function tests, he would blow into a peak flow and he’d never blown above about 400.
After doing these sessions for some time, he had another medical check and he’d also at this point started to do my weekly breathwork class. His blood pressure had actually reduced down to 120 (textbook 120 over 80), which was a great blood pressure for anyone, but for his age, as well as he was a slightly older client, was very good, and when he did all the lung function tests, he blew into the peak flow, he actually blew 650, which was 250 more than he’d ever blown. He was quite proud that the nurse actually didn’t believe that he’d blown that, and she got him to do another one where he blew the same. So that has made a really huge impact on his lifestyle as a whole. He was able to go and exercise more. He started going to the gym. He was walking a lot more and lost a lot of weight in the process, and he just generally felt a lot better within himself. So that was a big change. But as I’ve said, with basic training, quite often hypertension is seen to be a contraindication, but as my client demonstrates, the benefits really were very noticeable.
That’s a remarkable transformation. Your mention of vagus nerve toning and breathwork, alongside traditional massage, points to a multi-faceted approach. How did you develop this integrated treatment protocol and what role did your medical background play in identifying these complementary elements?
Well the development of this sort of approach maybe didn’t come quite so much from my medical background but more from my personal circumstances. My clients in the area had got to know that I had a medical background and would understand their conditions and know how to adapt my approach with regards to therapy. I’d never really done anything about breathwork so it was when I did my oncology training that breathwork was mentioned in passing and that it could be very beneficial, particularly if someone has had maybe radiotherapy to the chest tissue. It can affect their ability to deep breathe so breathwork was seen as quite beneficial to oncology clients.
I’ve known after having experienced trauma for quite a few years, which resulted in complex PTSD, that I was actually in an abusive marriage. I’d known for some time that I wanted to work with trauma or domestic abuse but I just didn’t know quite how I was going to go about that. It was really through doing the oncology training that I was thinking about the techniques that are used that are applied in a way that you’re not putting much pressure stress through the tissue. I realised that actually this also applies to trauma and, having overcome my biggest physical trigger through massage, I knew that it could be really beneficial. I also knew that there were a lot of therapists who really had no idea how to treat trauma and actually very little understanding of trauma unless they’d been unfortunate to have gone through it themselves.
I thought, I would develop these oncology techniques and put together some form of trauma basic routine that I could then adapt further with each client. With trauma clients the nervous system is dysregulated so you don’t want to put a lot of stress through the tissue because it could over-activate the nervous system and then that could bring about a sudden release of buried emotions, which may be actually that the client isn’t actually ready for. It requires a very gentle approach, so I developed this routine. As part of that I started, through my own education about my own trauma, to read about the vagus nerve, which is a big part of the central nervous system. When the nervous system is dysregulated the vagus nerve becomes dysregulated. I introduced a vagus nerve stimulation device, which has been very popular and is often used alongside the trauma massage for the charity referrals that I get.
I was looking at other ways to develop the trauma services and the breathwork was at that point becoming very popular generally so I found a course that, in order to become a breathwork facilitator, you actually had to deal with your own baggage as part of that. This was for conscious connected breathwork, which is often used for trauma release. I thought this was a good opportunity for me to actually do some work on myself and understand my own responses a little bit more. When I qualified and I started doing breathwork classes, that has in turn led on to me doing the transformation workshops using things that I learned during the breathwork facilitator program, so things like inner child and shadow work, and work around personas and narcissistic abuse.
I started to realise that everything came together very well. In terms of my medical experience I think that made it easier for me to understand the physical psychology behind it, the neurobiology of trauma, and to start treating trauma as a physiological problem within the nervous system rather than simply as a psychological issue, which unfortunately is how a lot of people do see it. They say, ‘Oh you’ve got trauma so you know go and get some counselling’ but actually that’s only addressing the symptoms of trauma as opposed to really dealing with the root cause, which is that hyperactivation of the nervous system.
Your approach to trauma treatment is fascinating, particularly how you’ve identified it as a physiological issue rather than purely psychological. What specific adaptations did you make to traditional massage techniques when working with trauma survivors that other practitioners might not consider?
Listening to other non-trauma-informed practitioners when talking about trauma either they say outright that they just don’t know what to do with it, how to adapt to that sort of client, or they go automatically ahead with a completely inappropriate treatment.
If someone comes in for deep tissue massage, for example, the whole purpose is to reduce the tension and relax the muscle. In order to do that you have to push through the resistance in the muscle and that can require a lot more pressure, which creates a lot more stress on the tissue. If you do that to a trauma client and you put stress on a system that is already under a huge amount of stress, then all that actually does is to overwhelm the trauma client and possibly cause them to get triggered or to offload a load of stuff that they maybe weren’t ready to offload or perhaps that they weren’t even aware of. This can be quite dangerous to someone’s mental health if they’re not ready to deal with that and they don’t have perhaps a support system in place to help them work through that.
I also know that a lot of therapists out there, because they don’t understand the neurobiology aspect of trauma, may be presented with a trauma client and have no idea how to work with them. The type of tension that you get in a trauma client is very, very different. It’s not necessarily specific knots that you can isolate and work on but it’s more of a systemic tension. It’s not as responsive as the generally tight tissue that we see in other clients without trauma and again that’s due to the overactivation of the nervous system. It’s quite a common thing for traumatised clients to go to a therapist and maybe because they themselves don’t understand what’s going on and why they’re so tight, they’ll say to the therapist, ‘I’ve got tight shoulders.’ To a practitioner who’s not experienced with trauma, they’re just going to think that this person has tight shoulders so they might go wading in with a deep tissue massage, which puts a lot of stress on the tissue. Of course that client comes out not really feeling much better.
The way I have adapted the massage is I use a soft ball, which basically acts like a shock absorber on some parts of the body. This can be used in other things like oncology massage and disabled kids. It’s great because you can apply quite a lot of pressure through that but the air in the ball actually absorbs a lot of the impact so it gives a much more gentle approach. When working with my hands it’s more about leaning into the tissue rather than pushing through it. When I’m doing those massages I become a lot more aware of my body weight and using my body weight rather than creating force from my shoulder. By doing that it has quite a different feel. It has a bit more of a compressive feel to it as opposed to just pushing through the muscle. It basically works the tissue at a level that the client’s body will allow me to go so I can stimulate the nervous system without overactivating it further. Also the use of vibration techniques can add to this intention of a trauma massage. In terms of it being physiological I do believe that by addressing the nervous system first we are able to get to the root cause but also it gives the client a greater capacity to then come away and be able to deal with the psychological stuff.
I liken it to someone maybe who has arthritis in the hip. If they go into hospital, they needed a new hip. They’re not going to just want the symptoms of pain being treated with a couple of paracetamol because that might just gloss over the issue for a very short period of time. The problem is still there underneath and that’s what we have to remember with trauma and we have to address that root cause, which is the nervous system.
Your innovative use of tools like the softball and vibration techniques is intriguing. In your success in trauma-informed massage, how have you structured your training programs to help other practitioners bridge this gap between traditional massage education and trauma-informed care?
The trauma course that I run is actually my most popular course because I think there are a lot of therapists out there who are now realizing that there is a real need for trauma-informed therapists. They’re realising that they actually don’t understand much about it. I think for my students coming in on those courses, to a certain extent, I feel like they have to forget everything that they’ve been taught because on the practical side, although some of the techniques will be similar to what they used before, it may be that they have to really become a lot more aware of their posture.
I think, to a certain extent, it is a lot about how they are as a therapist: how empathetic they are, how open they are, how good their communication skills are, how good their posture is when they’re actually performing the massage. Those things can actually make a huge difference to how much the client trusts you and how safe they feel in the therapist’s hands.
My training course for trauma is very much set out in specific chapters. In terms of the theory part, it’s teaching a lot of stuff that a lot of therapists just aren’t aware of unless they’ve been through it themselves, which, to be fair, a lot of them have. You tend to find a very high percentage of people that have been through trauma actually want to go on and help others who have been through the same.
Whereas in other courses a lot of the theory revolves around anatomy and physiology and physical symptoms, a lot of this course is about understanding different types of trauma, for example, early childhood abuse, domestic abuse, sexual assault, male trauma, and how they impact on a person’s psychology and physiology and looking at what sort of medical conditions are connected as well with different types of trauma. We also look at some case studies. Obviously we talk about the nervous system, the vagus nerve. So the theory part, I suppose, is less medical and scientific than some of my other courses. It’s more about thinking about people and how they respond to things, not only physically but emotionally as well.
To be honest I think a lot of the students that I have on that course are people that have either been through something like that themselves or people who are already in some form of trauma service. For example, I had a counsellor who came to do it because she just wanted to be able to offer a physiological approach alongside what she was already doing. This perfectly complemented those talking therapies and that can be particularly useful on this course because there are a lot of things around trauma that you can’t really teach from just getting someone to read a textbook. It’s more about a person or feeling and a willingness to actively listen to what the other person is saying and to not be judgmental.
A lot of the clients that I get coming in for this type of service are actually drawn to me because I am very open about my previous personal experience with trauma. For a lot of people coming in for this type of therapy, they want to know that the person that they’re coming in to see can really understand where they’re coming from. Not necessarily that they’re the most academic person or the most qualified, but they are drawn to that openness. They know that they can come in and they can say, ‘I’ve been through trauma,’ but that they won’t necessarily have to go into any detail about that because they know that other person is just going to get it. Students have commented on how open I am, but I think that is just part of being that kind of practitioner.
The emphasis on personal experience and emotional intelligence in your training is powerful. How do you see the future of therapeutic massage evolving, particularly in terms of integration with traditional healthcare systems? And what changes are needed in basic massage education to better serve modern healthcare needs?
In terms of changes to basic massage education, we need to ensure that people who are offering massage training are actually experienced and qualified to do so. Because I’ve certainly had a few courses where the trainer hasn’t actually really been able to speak in much depth about what it is that they’re teaching. I even had someone on one course who said, “Oh, you know, when we did the introductions of who we are and what our background is, she actually turned around and said, ‘Oh, I think you should be teaching this course.’ Which, you know, doesn’t instill much confidence really.
But I think we also need to address the fact that massage training is a very outdated. The reason clients are coming in for massages, as I think I said at the start of this, has changed dramatically in the last 25 years. And the massage training needs to reflect that and needs to start looking at the fact that there are at least the more common medical issues that could be addressed in basic massage education. Obviously we can’t cover every medical condition, but we can certainly address the important ones and the most common ones. Just so that therapists are coming out of their training with some idea of how to treat basic issues. For example, precautions with diabetes is a common one. Or fibromyalgia. Knowing how to adapt the session to make it appropriate so that you’re not going to make that client more unwell.
In terms of integrating complementary health care with conventional healthcare, there’s still a way to go. It has improved in recent years, and certainly many health professionals are coming around to the idea that there is absolutely a place for these two types of healthcare to be connected. Oncology is the perfect example of that with many oncology consultants really starting to recognize that massage can be very beneficial in helping cancer patients get through chemotherapy cycles to help them emotionally and mentally, reducing anxiety, to help with pain in a non-invasive way, and to just really help increase their resilience through their cancer journey. However, there are still too many medical professionals who unfortunately do still believe a lot of the myths and misconceptions out there, for example, that you can’t have a massage because it will spread your cancer. And this really just comes down to people working within their scope of practice and educating themselves with evidence-based research in order to give clients the best advice.
So we’ve still got a little way to go with that but for the holistic therapy industry to evolve and continue to progress, given the increase in people coming to these therapies for medical reasons, I think it is really important that we now really start to push through the boundaries that have kind of been imposed by society. To start addressing these stigmas by just hitting them head on and not fearing the unknown, and just really educating ourselves and pushing past our own limits that we place on ourselves to develop in these areas. A lot of the most common issues that I’m seeing clients coming in with are trauma and mental health. Two of the most misunderstood issues but also two of the most common and two issues that unfortunately too many therapists just don’t understand and that has to change.
I think it’s through addressing these stigmas and breaking through those challenges that we have in society and through gaining understanding and overcoming that fear of the unknown that we can actually move forward and hopefully get to a point where these issues are no longer a stigma. They’re just a part of normal everyday life that the majority of us at some point in our life do suffer with. We should understand them more.
I think if I think about my post-mastectomy program having breast massage, unfortunately there is that misconception that it is a sexualized service but it’s actually very therapeutic. There are a lot of benefits to it but unfortunately, with the way our society is and a lot of it probably comes from social media, we have sexualised breasts, which is a shame. That actually then has taken away from a very beneficial treatment that can help so many breast cancer patients and also gender reassignment or anyone who has had cosmetic breast surgery. It’s denied them effective therapy that could really make their recovery and rehabilitation after these surgeries much faster, with much more emotional acceptance as well.
I think that’s the main area that we can really push forward in this industry and evolve is by breaking through those barriers and just improving our understanding of what we don’t know.
Your point about stigmas and mental health inspiration is crucial. Could you share a specific example of how you have successfully collaborated with medical professionals to validate and integrate your therapeutic approaches, particularly in areas that were initially met with scepticism?
I think, with regards to stigmas, again I’ll go back to the post-mastectomy breast programme. Not that it is a stigma within the medical community but I think, in my discussions with other oncology services and consultants, while they may have been fully accepting of oncology massage, they perhaps weren’t so aware of the actual benefits, specifically the breast tissue and the surrounding musculature. Actually it can impact on the diaphragm, rib expansion, and the ability to deep breathe. Of course if you can’t breathe then that impacts on healing ability as well. I think through my discussions with them that really helped them to see just how many benefits there were and to really appreciate that actually there is a bit of a gap between that initial post-surgical care that they are offering and that longer-term recovery. They get the emotional support from services like Macmillan but I don’t think that they had fully appreciated that there was a bit of a gap in terms of combining both the physiological and the emotional through the rehabilitation process. I think that was a new way of thinking for them and to bring the breath work into it as well is not necessarily something that they had considered in terms of an actual aftercare program.
In terms of mental health integration I don’t think there’s been so much a case where I’ve directly collaborated with medical teams on that. My collaborations have been more with mental health and trauma charities who have referred clients my way. In terms of the anxious and self-harming teams a lot of the time it’s come through the parents, purely because they have felt not quite sure how to deal with it themselves or that, particularly after Covid, waiting lists for counselling services were horrendously long and for children and teens it can actually be an even longer wait. When your child is self-harming you want help now and so it’s been more through other routes for the mental health but again it’s something that perhaps needs more liaison with mental health teams in hospitals and the community to really bring together the holistic side of things with conventional medicine.
You’ve identified that the gap between post-surgical care and long-term rehabilitation is significant. How have you structured your training programs to ensure that practitioners can effectively bridge these medical-holistic gaps while maintaining professional boundaries and safety standards?
Well at the moment I actually have no training course up and running for this particular issue. I do want to get a training program set up this year, particularly for the breast massage, and that will require the students who have completed oncology massage and preferably the understanding scars training course too in advance. Until you’ve got those foundations I feel that you can’t adequately look at the clients’ needs in that long-term rehabilitation so it is something that I will be doing. I haven’t really looked at exactly how I would structure those programs yet but there will certainly be a very medical approach to it and I’m sure it will also incorporate my knowledge and experience having been a surgical nurse dealing with mastectomies as well.
With regards to maintaining professional boundaries there is a professional code of conduct with any kind of holistic therapy. I think because of the social perception of breasts as being sexual, the boundaries are a little more important with breast therapy so that will also be something that will be clearly addressed.
Given your unique position at the intersection of medical expertise and holistic therapy, what do you believe are the most critical elements that need to be incorporated into basic massage education to better prepare therapists for today’s health care challenges?
Well as I’ve already mentioned the big gap in massage training is the lack of awareness and the lack of attention given to medical conditions. My focus on the courses that I’ve introduced so far has been to address the physiology and the anatomy at a deeper level than what would generally be offered on massage courses. Once therapists get to grips with the physiology, by helping them understand how these conditions are caused, what the symptoms are, what the conventional medical and holistic treatments are, and also looking at risk factors, I feel it’s really important for therapists to be able to pick up on things that the client might say and actually be able to identify when a client might be high risk for a certain issue. Sometimes clients will come in and they’ll talk in a sort of roundabout way about their problems that they’re having but they might not have a diagnosis. They might not know what the possible diagnosis may be. If we can identify the risk factors then potentially we might be able to actually help a client get the sort of medical input that they need. That’s not saying that we’re going to diagnose. That’s not in our job description but we might be able to just be able to signpost them to correct help.
One thing that I’ve spoken quite a lot about in the past is that, with regards to massage training, you can have lots of practical skills and it’s great if you do. There’s nothing wrong with that but it’s always good to have a variety of techniques and modalities to work with. You must have more than just the practical skills alone. Those practical skills are often pointless if you don’t have the understanding or knowledge to back them up and be able to adjust them and apply them in a safe and effective way to the client. A lot of my courses have a lot of theory and it is really about having that knowledge. When you have that then you know what questions to ask to be able to adapt your services. You know what questions to ask to be able to assess whether there are any precautions that need to be taken. I feel that this really is the biggest gap at the moment in training.
Your emphasis on comprehensive medical knowledge alongside practical skills is compelling. Looking ahead what emerging healthcare needs do you see becoming more prevalent and how are you adapting your training and treatment approaches to meet these future challenges?
Certainly services that I already offer, such as the trauma massage. People are becoming more aware of trauma and we are getting more therapists wanting to be trauma informed. Childhood disability is another one that’s really important because, having had a disabled child myself, I know how expensive and inaccessible private therapy can be. That’s why I offer these services but there are very few therapists offering this. I’ve had adults with cerebral palsy contact me, asking if I would go to wherever they may be to see them as mobile. Unfortunately I am not able to do that and I have looked for therapists in other areas of the country. I’ve actually been unable to find any that actually do what I do with that. That’s definitely an area where there is room for a lot more therapists to be able to provide therapy when, with the best will in the world, NHS resources are extremely limited and aren’t able to offer enough.
I would really like to see more therapists taking up that training and also the breast massage. Again I hope will slowly be viewed in a more positive way. I think one thing that maybe has so far been overlooked a little in the holistic and potentially even in conventional medical areas is the effects of long COVID. I’ve certainly seen quite a few clients who have either had a lot of immune issues since either having COVID themselves or since having the COVID vaccines. Obviously this is the learning phase and there’s not been enough research done so I think we need, first and foremost, more research to be able to see what we’re dealing with. I think in the future that could be something that we do see a lot more clients coming in with and we are going to have to look at how we adapt our treatment approaches with that. Hopefully once we have that research and once we have more client experiences, we can then adapt training and create programs to better equip therapists to meet those challenges.
The long Covid impact you’ve mentioned is particularly relevant. Based on your experience bridging traditional health care and holistic therapy, what specific adaptations have you found most effective when working with clients experiencing post-viral conditions? How might this inform future therapeutic approaches?
In my own practice when anyone comes in with post-viral conditions or anything where they are experiencing increased fatigue, infections, feeling run down, I always go back to lymphatic because the lymphatic system is closely related to the immune system. If we have good lymphatic function our white blood cells are being transported throughout the body and that helps us fight off any infections. That would currently be what I would refer to.
As I’ve said there’s so much we still don’t know about long COVID. A lot of the time when clients come in it’s guesswork. It’s a case of putting it down to that because there’s nothing else that has happened or no changes in their circumstances and the timing of symptoms is in line with when they had COVID or when they had the vaccine. We do need more research before we look at how to better implement holistic care for this issue but I’m sure whatever progress is made in that area there will certainly be a lymphatic element to that.
Plus with any client that is suffering with increased fatigue, whether it be due to long COVID or fibromyalgia or cancer or any other issue, we always have to think about what is best for that client. They need a short session or a less intense session. There are always ways that we can adapt and again, going back to the topic of trauma, adapting techniques in a way that doesn’t put a lot of pressure on the tissue. There are a few things we can tweak in our approach but we need more information to really make a good long-term plan on how to deal with it.
Your approach to lymphatic work and adapting session intensity is thoughtful. As someone who successfully integrated medical expertise with holistic practices, what advice would you give to massage therapists who want to elevate their practice to a more medical, therapeutic level while maintaining the holistic essence of their work?
Well no surprises here. This comes back to knowledge and educating yourself with the physiology and the real understanding of the issues that clients are coming in with. One of the things that has helped me, aside from my nursing and midwifery background, is definitely doing regular training. Not only in the practical skills but also so much of what I have learned in terms of holistic therapy has come partly from my clients. Clients will teach you things that you don’t get out of a textbook or from a training course. There are endless things that I’ve learned from clients that have helped me to develop professionally and also pursue training that I never thought I would ever do. Because I try to take my training down the route of what there is a call for and what my clients are wanting. Also I would say that I’ve learned a lot about myself personally from conversations that I’ve had with my clients.
I think that with the amount of competition there is now, so many people are coming in to holistic therapy and we have to find a way to stand out from the crowd. Having that medical knowledge will help. That’s certainly what has set me apart. Also I’m finding that, in addition to that, the thing that has helped is me doing work on myself for my own trauma, because that has actually taken me also down a path that I never thought I would take professionally. Not only am I integrating conventional medical and surgical care with holistic therapy but I’m really covering the physiology, the emotional aspect, the psychological aspect, and even in some cases spirituality as well. I’ve brought in a lot of extra modalities like breath work, mindfulness, reiki, and spiritual hypnotherapy so I have added a bit more of a spiritual dimension to my work as well.
I think when you have different modalities that work well individually, all can be combined into a package that’s always going to attract more clients because you’ll be able to give a much more comprehensive service. I think clients are really starting to appreciate that, rather than just going along and getting a standard massage, which anyone can do. Plus I think clients are wanting therapists who will give them suggestions of what they can do at home so that they can take control of their own health, because a lot more people are wanting to do that now. They want to feel like they have some control over their life and so if we can arm ourselves with as many tools as possible and as much knowledge as possible, we are then more able to actually do that and find different ways, whether it’s through advice or giving stretches or I have written self-help guides and I have informative and educational posts on my website. All of these things again can improve the service you are offering a client and many of the services that I offer, while different from each other, actually work really well together as well.
For example if I have a client who is in the early stages of recognizing their trauma, then maybe just a gentle trauma massage and the vagus nerve toning or reiki would work. As they go through their recovery process and they become more aware of their trauma and have a real desire to try and overcome that, and they want to learn more, they are becoming a bit more accepting but still have a lot of stuff to deal with, then maybe they can use breathwork for trauma release or just generally to ease their anxiety. Maybe even the reiki and the hypnotherapy can be used for regression to take them back to the time that the trauma happened to help rebalance the energy, or possibly through hypnotherapy to help them understand what happened without completely being submerged in that experience again but almost watching it as if you’re watching a film, then the client can really start moving forward in their life and then they could go on to do the workshop, which gives them a different way of thinking. All of these services work really well together and that means that you can adapt and use different combinations of such services to suit different clients at different stages of their journey.