Nearly 30 years’ experience helping people move beyond the emotional impact of the past — using a calm, gentle and specialist approach.
Support from a team who truly understand trauma.
I'm Michael Bird, I was among the first Certified Havening Practitioners in the world and have now spent more than nearly three decades supporting people as a therapist, life coach and sports psychologist.
Over that time, I've worked with individuals facing a wide range of challenges — helping them safely and gently move through experiences that have felt overwhelming, confusing or difficult to process.
Our work has supported people affected by trauma-related conditions such as PTSD, anxiety, depression, addiction, bereavement and phobias - as well as those who simply want to feel calmer, more in control and more like themselves again.
It's not always the memory - it’s how it still feels.
Sometimes, it is not the event itself that causes distress, but the emotional response that remains attached to it.
Our work focuses on helping to reduce that emotional intensity.
Using Havening-Techniques (also known as Amygdala Depotentiation Technique, or ADT), we support a process known as synaptic depotentiation — helping the brain safely “de-link” the emotional charge from distressing memories.
This allows the memory to remain, but without the same emotional weight.
Our goal is simple — to help you feel like yourself again.
As the emotional intensity connected to past experiences reduces, many people begin to notice:
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A greater sense of calm
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Clearer thinking
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More emotional balance
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The ability to move forward without feeling held back
The aim is not to erase the past — but to help it feel less overwhelming, so it no longer defines how you feel in the present.
When the emotional intensity reduces, everything can begin to change.
Using our experience, we work with clients to gently identify the source of emotional distress — whether that shows up as:
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Anxiety or panic
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Low mood or depression
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Trauma responses (including PTSD)
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Grief and loss
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Phobias
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Addictive or compulsive behaviours
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A general sense of overwhelm or feeling “stuck”
For many people, these patterns can also affect physical wellbeing, stress levels and day-to-day life.