Donna Havens MEd. Psych Counseling
Certified Holistic Health Coaching
Spirit, Mind and Body Transformation - Love, Longevity and Legacy
Trauma Sensitive, Informed and Aware
Note - April 2024 -
Four years since the beginning of the pandemic - last week I had a great talk with a client about remembering who and how things were before the pandemic - who we were - and moving beyond processing the pain and losses to refocusing and reclaiming the things we miss that we can reclaim! Clients are asking questions such as how do we reconnect to joy, happiness, a felt sense of safety? How do we regain our physical health and emotional well-being? How do we reconnect deeply to one another? How do we reconnect to the awe and mystery of life? These are my favorite kinds of questions. My clients and I go on the adventure of finding answers - finding some answers that are true for all and answers that are personal and based on my client's individual challenges and life experiences. We go on a quest to find answers to the questions that lead each one to their life of integration, meaning, purpose, a felt sense of being seen, heard, known, and understood; a life each individual client can look back on with joy, peace and contentment.
Note - May 2023
It's almost the "official" end of the pandemic. I'm not really sure what that means. Three years ago this week a dear friend of mine died of Covid after a month in the hospital alone, on a ventilator, one of 21 friends and loved ones that I have lost since March 2020. Covid is still around. People, family, friends and loved ones, still argue about masks and vaccines, but less frequently and with less emotion. We have been through a collective trauma, one we didn't see coming, and we have experienced it differently and we have come to different conclusions. I am changed, and I am pretty sure that you are, too. We have memories. We have scars. We have coping skills we didn't have before, some good and some not so good. I highly recommend unpacking that! I feel that we can integrate our experiences to become more confident, encouraged, hopeful, stronger in the broken places, older, wiser, and more complete. We can use the lessons we are learning to help us to be healthier in spirit, mind and body. We have more control than we know and this is a very important message at a time when health care and providers can be hard to come by.
I have been working with individuals, couples and families as they have had to navigate significant challenges and loss. Come learn about resilience, uncertainty, trauma, courage and healing. I am ready to process with you what you now carry, and integrate what we now know as we move together towards a better life for you, your loved ones, and collectively, a better world for all.
Do you feel called to more? Do you want to live more vibrantly in all aspects of your being? Are you being called into a deeper and wiser identity, a more authentic you? Do you feel called to make a deeper impact, to help heal our families, our communities and our planet but you don't know where to begin? Would you like to explore better health, a deeper creativity, storytelling, and courage to speak and share who you really are and what you really believe? Do you know that all this matters - that you matter and that we need you?
Health challenges, weight challenges, unexpected turns of events, healing the past, love found and lost and found again, seeking meaning and purpose, leaving a legacy - these are things I have tackled, studied, worked with, things I know deeply. I can help you transform your life. It's important. You are important. You are here, now, on purpose. Be your best you so that you can have your biggest impact.
Certifications/Trainings
Trauma-Informed Care Clinical Advanced Practice/Trauma Responsive Certification, which required training in Motivational Interviewing, Attachment, Regulation and Competency (ARC), Neurobiology and Trauma-Informed Care, The Adverse Childhood Experiences study (ACEs), Adult Survivors of Trauma, Culturally Adapted Trauma, and training in Mindfulness Skills
I have completed Level 1 in Gottman Method Couples Therapy and use Gottman Method Couples Therapy in my work.
I am approved by the Committee for Public Counsel as a Bonding Assessments Provider/Vendor in Child and Family Court
Institute for Integrative Nutrition, SUNY Purchase, Certified Holistic Health Coach; Certified Self-Esteem Elevation Coach for Children