What are the opening hours?

Wednesday 9am - 5pm Thursday 9am - 5pm Friday 9am - 5pm Saturday 9am - 5pm Sunday 9am - 5pm

Holly Haywood Trauma-Informed Therapy, Brisbane (2025)

Trauma-informed therapy, supporting women, particularly mothers, to heal their inner wounds so that they can parent - and live - with more peace, ease and self-love.

27/11/2024

A quick IFS explainer ⤵️ (full detail in the carousel)

1. IFS asserts that the mind is naturally subdivided into multiple sub-personalities, or ‘parts’. These parts hold their own beliefs, interests and natural strengths (even genders) and together, they form our inner system or ‘family’. Our parts can be experienced through our thoughts, feelings, physical sensations, or mental images.

2. As we develop, while trauma and attachment injuries don’t ‘create’ our parts, they do shape them, typically forcing them into more extreme roles. In IFS, the three distinct roles parts take on are as ‘exiles’, ‘managers’ and ‘firefighters’.

3. Our exiles are the young parts of us that have absorbed and taken on the effects of trauma. They continue to hold the fear, sense of worthlessness and vulnerability of that earlier time, and are therefore typically exiled by the system in order to keep these extreme beliefs and emotions suppressed.

4. On the other hand, our managers and firefighters are our protectors, with our managers proactively working to prevent any further hurt and rejection, eg. through controlling, perfecting and people-pleasing, and our firefighters serving as the last wall of defence. If a wound is touched upon, they’ll jump in at any cost to control and extinguish the pain - think the self-harming, bingeing, and rageful ‘parts’. But regardless of the strategy or outcome, they all have one pure intention: to protect us.

5. When there are exiles living with us, the whole system effectively becomes organised around suppressing and keeping the pain of the exiles out of conscious awareness or from being re-experienced. It becomes fragile and vulnerable to triggering.

6. At the same time, IFS recognises that everyone also has a core, untouched Self, and in accessing this Self, it becomes a powerful reparative + healing agent. ✨

Curious about IFS and learning more about the parts that might currently be at play in your system and experiences? I offer free 30-minute mini sessions for anyone thinking about starting IFS therapy. Comment “mini” to get a link to book in x

05/11/2024

If you’re curious about root cause therapy, and would love to experience similar results in your own life (with the investment of just one 2.5-hour therapy session), comment ‘root cause’ and I’ll send you a link to book in a free 20-min consult ✨ x

03/06/2024

Are you struggling with depression, anxiety, or emotion regulation?

Are you being challenged in your parenting by constant triggering, overwhelm, reactivity, anger/rage, guilt, shame, or an overwhelming sense of helplessness and hopelessness? Are you trying to accomplish the mammoth task of parenting, while dealing with unresolved trauma of your own?

Have you been sensing that it’s time to work on your own wounds, so that you can show up in the way you want for yourself, for your children, in your relationships, or in your purpose? Have you been getting the sense that your inner child(ren) are in need of healing?

**Experience the healing benefits of RTT & IFS 1:1**

I am offering a BETA program for women who are you interested in delving deeper, and healing some of these wounds so that they can begin their return to greater wholeness - back to who they are really meant to be, and, if you’re a mum - to begin to parent more from your Self, rather than from your wounds.

Beginning as a coach training in NLP, then to my RTT practitioner training, I have been using parts work for several years and am so passionate about this way of working. I believe it is THE most effective ongoing therapy for resolving deep, including preverbal, wounds (on the other side of the coin, RTT is wonderful because of the degree of healing and deep subconscious change that typically occurs in just a single session). And so, as a soon-to-be-certified Internal Family Systems (IFS) Trauma Treatment practitioner - I have decided to create a program so that women can benefit from the combined power of both (currently at beta pricing).

See the post for further details, and send me a DM if you’re interested in learning more or to book in for this 1:1 program (limited spots available for obvious reasons). Alternatively, feel free to book in a 20-min chat if you’d like to chat further.

Holly x

18/05/2024

I strongly feel that hypnosis is the most underrated and underused tool in trauma treatment and recovery.

By definition, traumatic memory is largely unconscious. Its legacy is retained in the body via feeling memories, body memories, muscle memories, autonomic memories (learned nervous system responses!), and procedurally learned survival strategies... By definition, our body’s response to a traumatic event or enduring overwhelming circumstances in childhood is stored subcortically - in the lower areas of the brain outside of our conscious awareness.

It probably comes as no suppose then that working directly *with* the subconscious mind in hypnosis is a powerful way of working with and metabolising traumatic memory... It allows us, through tapping into the wisdom and absolute knowing of our subconscious mind - and through dual awareness - to gently and easily review and reframe the disempowering beliefs that were adopted at the time of the experience, to metabolise and release the feelings that became stuck at the time due to overwhelm and an inability to process them, and to understand and relieve our *parts* of the defence mechanisms (incorporating mental, emotional and pyschosomatic symptoms) that they adopted at the time in order to help support the only aim: survival.

There is no mystery or uncertainty in hypnosis; everything becomes clear and malleable. Then we utilise the neuroplasticity of the mind to begin to create new neural networks that reflect the person you are now, instead of the child you were then. 🤍 Hypnosis offers a whole-body experience (of relief and change) - because it offers a direct connection to both mind AND body.

Address

Brisbane, QLD

Opening Hours

Wednesday	9am - 5pm
Thursday	9am - 5pm
Friday	9am - 5pm
Saturday	9am - 5pm
Sunday	9am - 5pm

Telephone

+61414065658

Website

http://www.hollyhaywood.com/

Alerts

Be the first to know and let us send you an email when Holly Haywood Trauma-Informed Therapy posts news and promotions. Your email address will not be used for any other purpose, and you can unsubscribe at any time.

Contact The Practice

Send a message to Holly Haywood Trauma-Informed Therapy:

Holly Haywood Trauma-Informed Therapy