
Trauma doesn’t have to be a dreadful life event, it can be little things like being bullied at school, or humiliated by a teacher, or abandoned by a friend.
When does your brain store trauma? When certain conditions are met:
✔︎ You felt emotionally vulnerable
✔︎ Hurtful or things happened
✔︎ You were made to feel powerless
A chemical reaction occurred in your brain to permanently store this trauma, which can be re-triggered in less than a tenth of second, recreating all the painful emotions, stress reactions, thought and negative self-beliefs.
Talk therapies don’t work with trauma because it’s stored in the operating system of your brain, below the conscious level. We can’t change trauma with our thoughts.
Here’s the good news!
The process of healing trauma is gentle, light-hearted and fun! How can that be? It’s because your brain is actually designed to erase trauma quickly and easily. I don’t do therapy to any of my clients, I just create the conditions for your brain to heal itself.
You don’t event have to tell me the story of your trauma, just go silently in your memory to that painful event for a brief moment, then we’ll divert your mind to fun mind games, or happy memories. The trauma will dissolve away all by itself.
This work is based on a scientific breakthrough by a doctor called Ronald Ruden, MD. He figured out exactly how trauma is stored in the brain – all the way down to the molecular reactions inside the nerve cells – and how to quickly reverse that mechanism. Discover more about Havening® here.

Trauma Specialist in New Zealand
Robin Youngson MA, MB ChB, FANZCA
Certified Havening Practitioner, retired Anesthesiologist
Looking for a trauma therapist? Welcome to my clinic! I love this work!
After more than thirty years of medical practice, this is the most astonishing and gratifying practice I have ever done. I quit my work as a medical specialist because I now greatly enjoy working with clients who suffer from anxiety, depression, phobias, emotional problems, PTSD and even some cases of chronic pain.
I am a trauma therapist, using Havening Techniques®, which are based on the latest breakthrough in neuroscience. Your brain is designed to rapidly heal trauma – the underlying cause of anxiety, depression, PTSD and many other conditions. You are the healer, not me as the practitioner. My job is to support and guide you through the gentle, self-healing process, informed by a detailed understanding of the science. As a doctor and scientist, I witness the rapid physiological changes in clients as they let go of stress and trauma.
I now train many counsellors, therapists, psychologists, counsellors, midwives, and doctors in these techniques.
Read more about HaveningWHAT IS TRAUMA AND HOW CAN YOU RAPIDLY HEAL IT?
ONE-ON-ONE THERAPY
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HELP FOR STRUGGLING MUMS
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CME-APPROVED RETREATS FOR DOCTORS – INDIVIDUAL AND GROUP RETREATS
Lost your joy in medical practice? Symptoms of burnout? Stressed and frustrated at work? These retreats are designed specially for you. You can join us for a Physician Group Retreat or book a one-on-one Personal Retreat
TRAINING IN HAVENING
Robin Youngson is a Certified Havening Trainer. He offers a five-day healing retreat & training course and also coaching and supervision for Certification as a Havening Practitioner. To learn more, click here…
From the back cover:
Driven by childhood trauma, a passionate engineer turned doctor confronts the suffering within the medical system. Expecting to find compassion and care, he instead encounters a broken, inhumane and corrupt system. As his journey leads him to question his own deeply held beliefs, he uncovers an urgent need for strategies prioritising human connection over technical fixes.
Through profound encounters with patients and wise teachers, the author discovers a new scientific reality where healing flourishes and miracles occur daily – insights with the potential to transform medical practice. After winning New Zealand’s highest medical award, he makes a bold decision to leave the system and embrace his true calling as a healer and teacher.
This honest and captivating medical memoir explores how societal myths and trauma misshape our beliefs, and our innate capacity to heal. Blending cutting-edge neuroscience with extraordinary stories of compassion and healing, this book offers fresh insights and new hope by showing how challenging our assumptions can transform our lives and the world we are part of.






