Andrea Haven
Healing for Those Who Care for Others
You give so much to everyone around you. This is your place to be supported, restored, and reminded of who you are.
Andrea Haven offers Havening Techniques®, wellbeing workshops, and transformational coaching for healthcare professionals, organisations, and anyone ready to feel better.
Andreahaven.com.au
You are welcome here if you are....
Anyone
Carrying stress, anxiety, or trauma, and ready for something that truly helps
A Healthcare or Service Organisation
Seeking meaningful, evidence-based wellbeing support for your team
A Nurse or Midwife
Burned out, depleted, or simply ready to reconnect with why you started
Welcome to Andrea Haven
I’m Andrea Brockbank — a Registered Nurse with nearly 40 years of experience, a certified Havening Practitioner, and a transformational coach based in Newcastle, NSW.
I created Andrea Haven because I have spent four decades watching the most compassionate, dedicated people I know — nurses, midwives, doctors, allied health professionals, carers — give everything to others and quietly fall apart in the process.
This is a warm, safe, and genuinely supportive space where healing isn’t just talked about. It’s experienced.
What is Havening Techniques®?
Havening is a gentle, scientifically-backed psychosensory therapy that uses calming touch to help the brain release the emotional weight of stress, anxiety, and trauma.
It works at the level of the amygdala — the part of the brain where traumatic and stressful memories are stored — and creates the deep, calm brainwave state associated with healing and restoration.
Most people describe feeling lighter, calmer, and more at peace after a session. Some describe it as feeling like a heavy coat has been lifted from their shoulders.
How can we work together?
Workshops
Full-day and half-day wellbeing workshops for nurses, midwives, and other organisational teams. Delivered across Australia.
1:1 Sessions
Individual Havening sessions and coaching programs for anyone ready to feel better. Face-to-face or via Zoom.
Free Videos
21 days of self-Havening — free on YouTube. A gentle daily practice you can start right now, wherever you are.
What people say about Andrea
Paula, Havening Client
"I have never tried Havening until I met Andrea. I was a bit nervous but Andrea made me feel so comfortable and safe. I got a lot out of the sessions which helped me heal from past traumas. Andrea's persona is so calming and truly makes it a safe space. Havening is such a beautiful experience. Highly recommend seeing Andrea for a session. It has really made a difference to my life".
- Nurse, NSW Nurses & Midwives Workshop
“It made me feel empowered and I could see my Vision and believe in my dreams. That is something I never thought could happen.. Believing in myself, believing in my patient, seeing them in a different light / perspective. Looking for the good in other people. Being grateful every day….9/10 – keep up the good work”
-Kristina, Havening Client
I had the privilege of working with Andrea after experiencing a workplace-related trauma and the impact our sessions have been truly transformative. Andrea’s compassionate and skilled approach to Havening created a warm, safe space for healing, helping me release and manage stress and so much anxiety, and regain a sense of calm and confidence. Her professionalism and genuine care are unmatched, and I wholeheartedly recommend her to anyone seeking a gentle, yet powerful path to emotional recovery."
Not sure where to start?
Begin with the free 21-day self-Havening series on YouTube.
Five to eight minutes a day. Filmed in beautiful locations across NSW. A gentle, accessible introduction to one of the most powerful self-care tools available — completely free, no sign-up required.
→ Watch the free series on YouTube
→ Check out the information on Havening.org, including links to research publications.
Ready to take the first step?
Whether you are a nurse who is ready for something to change, an organisation that wants to support its team, or simply someone who is curious - Andrea reads every message personally and would love to hear from you.
→ Get in touch with Andrea
In Love and Gratitude — Andrea
Andrea Brockbank is a certified practitioner of Havening Techniques. Havening Techniques is a registered trade mark of Ronald Ruden, 15 East 91st Street, New York.
About Andrea
Registered Nurse - Havening Practitioner - Wellbeing Specialist
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The story behind Andrea Haven
There is a question that has followed Andrea through nearly four decades of nursing. She has asked it at bedsides and in boardrooms, in remote communities and busy emergency departments, in workshops and in quiet one-to-one conversations. The question is simply this:
"Who is caring for the people who care for everyone else?"
Andrea Haven was built to answer that question.
The Nurse
Andrea is a Registered Nurse with nearly 40 years of experience — and if you sit with her for more than five minutes, that will become completely clear. Not because she tells you, but because of the way she listens. The way she notices. The way she creates a space where people feel safe enough to finally say the things they have been carrying alone.
Her nursing career has taken her almost everywhere the health system reaches. Emergency departments and acute care. Community health and women’s health. School-based youth health and child protection. Nurse Navigation, paediatrics, and persistent pain. Healthcare leadership and clinical education. And for more than six years, remote communities in the Pitjantjatjara Lands of South Australia, Thursday Island, and the communities of far north Queensland — where she lived and worked alongside Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people. She has learned through a combination of all this experience, the importance of culture, compassion, understanding, and meeting someone where they truly are.
She holds a Master of Nursing specializing in Leadership and Management — completed, quietly and determinedly, during the upheaval of COVID — and has spent her career not just working in healthcare, but thinking deeply about it. About what it costs the people who do it. About what it asks of them. And about what they deserve in return.
Discovering Havening
A few years ago, Andrea encountered something that stopped her in her tracks. It was called Havening Techniques® — a gentle, neuroscience-based psychosensory therapy that uses touch to help the brain release the emotional charge of stress, trauma, and anxiety.
She trained with Dr. Robin Youngson in New Zealand and became a certified Havening Practitioner. And then she watched what happened when she brought it into her work with nurses, midwives, and individuals carrying invisible weight. She watched stress physically leave people’s bodies. She watched faces soften. She watched people leave sessions feeling, as one client described it, “like reading a story about something that used to hurt, but without any of the pain.”
She knew immediately that this was something the healthcare world needed to know about. And she has been quietly, passionately, bringing it there ever since.
The art of Visioning
Alongside her nursing career, Andrea trained as a Transformational Life Coach and Consultant with the Life Mastery Institute — studying under one of the world’s leading teachers in human potential and possibility thinking. This is where she discovered the practice of Visioning — a deeply grounded, scientifically informed process of reconnecting with your deepest dreams and purpose.
She began weaving Visioning into workshops for nurses and midwives across New South Wales and Queensland. The rooms filled. The evaluations came back — nines and tens, page after page. “She was magnetic,” one nurse wrote. “This blew my mind,” wrote another. The NSW Nurses and Midwives’ Association formally recommended expanding the program to more locations across the state.
And then COVID arrived. Multiple planned workshops were cancelled overnight.
Andrea kept going. She delivered an online program for nurses and midwives navigating grief and loss at the start of the pandemic. She completed her Master’s degree. She trained in Havening. She kept asking her question — and kept building her answer.
The person behind the practitioner
Andrea has lived in Queensland most of her life, and recently moved to Newcastle, NSW, with her husband — her greatest supporter and her wonderfully energetic renovation partner. She is blessed with three beautiful children, four grandchildren, two stepdaughters, and two step-granddaughters, along with the partners who have joined this family and whom she adores. Family is at the heart of Andrea's life and deeply informs her understanding of love, connection, and what truly matters. When she is not with the people she loves, you will likely find her outdoors — she believes deeply in the healing power of nature, and many of her self-Havening videos are filmed in the beautiful locations she explores around the NSW coast and hinterland.
She has also written a children’s book — ‘Thoughts and Dreams and Trampolines’ — which tells you something important about her. She has always believed that the inner world matters. That our thoughts shape our lives. That imagination and possibility are not luxuries but necessities. That belief is woven into everything she does at Andrea Haven.
Qualifications & credentials
✓ Master of Nursing — Leadership & Management
✓ Registered Nurse — nearly 40 years of clinical experience
✓ Certified Havening Techniques® Practitioner (trained by Dr. Robin Youngson)
✓ Certified Transformational Life Coach & Consultant — Life Mastery Institute / Brave Thinking Institute
✓ IICT Member — insured Havening Practitioner
✓ Experienced workshop facilitator — NSW Nurses & Midwives Association, QLD Health, and other non-government agencies.
✓ Certificate IV Facilitating Abuse Prevention Programs - Save the Children
"I have come to believe that caring for myself is not self-indulgent. Caring for myself is an act of survival."
- Audre Lorde
If you are someone who cares for another - a nurse, a midwife, a healthcare professional, parent, carer, or simply someone who has been carrying too much for too long - you are in the right place. Andrea Haven is a safe, warm, and genuinely supportive space where healing is not just talked about. It is experienced.
In Love and Gratitude,
Andrea
Not sure if this is for you?
You may like to choose a '30-minute Complimentary Introduction Call' - This is a free call via zoom.
No selling or pressure, simply a chance to meet Andrea, ask questions and find out if this is for you.
Andrea Brockbank is a certified practitioner of Havening Techniques. Havening Techniques is a registered trade mark of Ronald Ruden, 15 East 91st Street, New York.
Work With Me
There are several ways we can work together - whether you are an individual looking for personal support,
or an organisation seeking to support your team, or clients.
Whatever brings you here — burnout, curiosity, a sense that something needs to change, or simply a quiet knowing that you deserve support — you are welcome. Every offering at Andrea Haven is grounded in warmth, clinical credibility, and a genuine belief in your capacity to heal and thrive.
Take a look at the options below and reach out if you have any questions. There is no pressure and no obligation — just a conversation to see if working together feels right.
Discovery of Self
Full-Day Workshop for Nurses & Midwives ,or other Service Provider Staff.
This is for you if…
You are a nurse, midwife, or any other staff member, or professional who has lost touch with why you started. You are tired in a way that sleep doesn’t fix. You are giving everything to your patients and/ or your team, and quietly running on empty. You want tools, connection, and permission to put yourself first for one full, nourishing day.
What’s included:
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A full day of guided reflection, connection, and practical wellbeing tools
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An introduction to Havening Techniques® — experience self-Havening for the first time
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A guided Visioning experience — reconnect with your dreams and professional purpose
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Small group discussion and peer connection with fellow colleagues
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A beautifully designed digital workbook to support participants in continuing the journey
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A personal action plan for the week ahead
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Delivered across Australia face-to-face, or online for remote and regional teams
This workshop has been delivered to nurses and midwives across NSW and Queensland with consistently outstanding evaluations. Participants leave feeling lighter, clearer, and genuinely hopeful.
The Carer's Reset
1:1 Havening & Wellbeing Sessions
This is for you if…
You are a healthcare professional — or simply a person — carrying stress, anxiety, trauma, or the weight of too many hard days. You have tried other approaches. You are ready for something that works at a deeper level. You want a private, safe, compassionate space where you don’t have to perform or explain — just heal.
What’s included:
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Individual Havening Techniques® sessions — gentle, evidence-based, and deeply effective
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Personalised support for stress, anxiety, burnout, trauma, grief, or persistent worry
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Coaching and Visioning elements woven in where helpful
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Sessions available currently via Zoom
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Typically 4–6 sessions — though some people experience profound shifts in just one or two
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A self-Havening practice taught so you have a lifelong tool to use independently
You will never be asked to share more than you are comfortable with. Havening can even be done completely content-free — meaning you don’t need to share the details of what you are working through. You are always in the driver’s seat.
→ Book a session or ask Andrea a question →
Organisational Wellbeing Programs
Workshops & Training for Healthcare Teams
This is for you if…
You are a healthcare organisation, or any other organisation, looking to genuinely support your team’s wellbeing — not with a token gesture, but with something meaningful, evidence-based, and delivered by someone who truly understands.
What’s included:
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Half-day and full-day wellbeing workshops for nursing and midwifery teams
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Multi-session staff wellbeing programs tailored to your organisation’s specific needs
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All programs incorporate Havening Techniques®, Visioning, and practical resilience tools
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Delivered across Australia face-to-face, or online for remote and regional teams
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Formally evaluated by the NSW Nurses & Midwives’ Association with outstanding results
Andrea understands the realities of the healthcare system from nearly 40 years of working inside it. She speaks your language, understands your pressures, and brings a level of clinical credibility that most wellbeing facilitators simply cannot match.
21 Days of Self-Havening
Free Video Series on YouTube
This is for you if…
You are curious about Havening but not yet ready to book a session. You want to experience it for yourself first — gently, privately, and at your own pace. Or you are a workshop participant who wants to continue and deepen the practice you learned with Andrea.
What’s included:
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21 short videos — 5 to 9 minutes each — filmed mostly in the beautiful outdoors
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Week 1: Learn the foundations of self-Havening — what it is and how it works
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Week 2: Apply self-Havening to specific situations — stress, sleep, grief, anxiety
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Week 3: Integrate self-Havening into your daily life as a lasting practice
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Completely free — no sign-up required
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A gentle, accessible starting point for anyone new to Havening
This series is Andrea’s gift to the healthcare community and to anyone who needs it. It is her belief that this practice is too important to keep behind closed doors — everyone deserves access to tools that genuinely help.
→ Watch the free series on YouTube →
Not sure if this is for you?
You may like to choose a '30-minute Complimentary Introduction Call' - This is a free call via zoom.
No selling or pressure, simply a chance to meet Andrea, ask questions and find out if this is for you.
Andrea Brockbank is a certified practitioner of Havening Techniques. Havening Techniques is a registered trade mark of Ronald Ruden, 15 East 91st Street, New York.
Get in Touch
Andrea reads every message personally - you will always hear back from her directly.
Hello, and Welcome.
Whether you have a question about a workshop, want to explore 1:1 Havening sessions, are interested in bringing a program to your organisation, or simply want to say hello — please reach out. There is no question too small and no enquiry too informal.
I look forward to hearing from you.
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