From a place of deep safety
and human connection
profound healing is possible.
My approach
Healing is a complex art. We go through life affecting and being affected by so many different factors - the structures of our bodies and minds, the nature of our closest relationships past and present, wider culture and society, as well as the places that make up our lives. My approach to working with people attempts to integrate all of this.
Ora katoa recognises that to be well is a journey of embracing all that we are. It also recognises that health cannot flourish if the person is surrounded by toxicity. For us to be well, our environment needs to be too. It is all interconnected.
The two key aspects I work with, recognising this interconnectivity, are:
The nervous system
This is the automated system that controls our bodily responses to safety (relaxation), threat (fight, flight, freeze), and opportunity (aliveness, excitement). When we have experiences that overwhelm our nervous system, it can get stuck in a state of hypervigilance and tension, or collapse and numbness - sometimes both at once.
A healthy nervous system is one that is responsive to the present moment - that accurately senses safety, threat and opportunity and responds accordingly.
Working to recalibrate and revitalise the nervous system to a healthy state is primarily done through the body - with energy medicine and somatic exercises that increase both relaxation and aliveness.
Sense of self in the world
Do you take your place in the world with a sense of empowerment, creativity and vitality? Or do you feel constrained, stuck, frustrated, or lifeless? Does the world and the people in it feel like a supportive ally? Or are you waiting to be cut down or crushed?
Working to reestablish an attitude of possibility and responsibility comes through the mind and body where we have to consciously update limiting beliefs and attitudes that often operate below the level of awareness. This can come through understanding their origins in childhood, birth and prenatal life where these beliefs and attitudes helped us survive.
From this place of conscious awareness, new choices can be made that transform how daily life feels and help us meet our deepest longings.
“From the moment I met Chloe I felt profoundly understood. I had reached the limits of the kind of healing I could do on my own, and Chloe was my perfect match. She is kind, intelligent and deeply committed to her work. She changed my life - working with me when no one else could, seeing past the pain on the surface to who I was becoming underneath. I trusted her fully, and her gifts repaid my soul ten-fold.”
— client treated for depression / existential crisis
Who I work with
Although I am open to working with anyone who resonates with my approach, I am particularly passionate about working with:
Women who have experienced abusive relationships and want to break the cycle
Coming back to self-loyalty, healthy boundaries and empowered choices in relationships. As someone who has walked this path myself, I offer deep empathy and insights for women brave enough to say « no more » and take their life into their own hands.
Mamas from pregnancy through postpartum to toddlerhood who want to give their babies and their relationship with their children the best possible start.
I offer energy medicine and compassionate coaching to mum and baby to support the greatest health and resilience to develop, even amidst stressful circumstances. Through my Masters studies in pre and perinatal life, I understand the huge impact of this period of development over the lifetime. If you are having difficult symptoms during pregnancy, have anxieties about birth, or are struggling postpartum then I am here to support. I can help with babies and toddlers that are struggling with sleep, digestion and rashes that are all signs of stress. I can teach you how to treat yourself and your little ones.
5 day healing journeys
My favourite way to work with clients is through a 5 day healing journey where we have two sessions a day over 5 days. This journey is for people stuck in a long-standing physical, neurological or emotional health crisis.
By working together intensely, we can get to the root cause of what is keeping you stuck, and from there deep change can begin. This journey is a leap of faith; of trust both in your own innate capacity for healing, and my capacity to attune to and support this. My commitment is to bring my full focus, authentic presence and courage to this transformational process.
Cost: $1000-1500 sliding scale. Payment plans are available.
Make your journey a retreat! Optional extras of 5 nights accommodation in Raglan and delicious meals (tailored to your dietary requirements) available at extra cost.
Ko Te Wao Nui o Tiriwa te maunga
The Waitakere Ranges are my mountain
Ko Waitakere te awa
The Waitakere Stream is my river
No Ingarani ahau
I was born in England
Ko Youngson taku whanau
The Youngsons are my family
Ko Chloe Waretini toku ingoa
My name is Chloe Waretini
About me
Born with a deep sensitivity and care for the world, I spent many years working as a designer and climate activist before the rite of passage into motherhood put me on the healer’s path. Care for this earth and all the life on it still influences my work greatly.
As a trauma therapist, it is an honour to support individuals and families to regenerate their nervous systems (the foundation of all health), free themselves from the past and embody their deepest essence.
The way I approach healing is deeply rooted in whare tapa wha where physical, mental, emotional and spiritual wellbeing is interconnected. I have a deep care and awhi for the human journey and it brings me so much joy, offering support to those courageous enough to enter a healing journey.
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Havening is a safe, fast and effective method for erasing trauma encoded in your brain. Havening permanently deletes these triggers so that you can be free to live in the present again. This happens in a very safe, lighthearted process with no risk of re-traumatisation. The technique puts you in a peaceful state of slow brain wave activity called delta waves. This state is achieved by a simple, comforting touch applied to your upper arms, face and palms of your hands. In as little as 15 minutes the trauma can be completely gone!
https://www.havening.org/directory/grid/view/details/14/1267
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The TARA Approach for the resolution of shock and trauma is a clinically-proven methodology for improving nervous system health. It combines Eastern energy medicine (Jin-shin Tara) with the latest advances in neuroscience and embryology to gently free up energy movement in the body which has been constricted by shocks and trauma in its development. A unique aspect of the TARA approach is that it can address adverse events which happened before conscious memory - from conception through to toddlerhood. Therefore it can reopen developmental windows which were impacted during this time and resolve traumas encoded beneath the level of our consciousness in our connective tissue.
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Core Energetics is a unique methodology that focuses on increasing aliveness in a synthesis of somatic psychotherapy and spiritual development. It brings awareness to blocks in our energy by perpetuating defenses adapted in childhood that now keep us limited and disempowered - recreating what we don’t want! It offers a path to liberating self-confrontation, and courageously embodying our true purpose in life.
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I am currently completing my Masters thesis on Mothering in the Metacrisis - how secure attachment and co-regulation with the Earth Mother creates resilience for families.
https://www.ubiquityuniversity.org/ma-phd-in-regenerative-health/
Lived experience I draw upon
Embracing neurodiversity (high sensitivity, autism and ADHD).
Overcoming experiences of mental illness including depression, anxiety, attempted suicide, borderline personality disorder.
Restoring my wholeness from school bullying, domestic violence and boundary violation.
Experiences as an immigrant and single mother.
“I left your clinic with so much less back pain than I arrived. This morning was so hard! I thought it could be also the effects of the painkillers, but during the day it persisted being better, with no more painkillers since 9 am. Your treatment is deep and I see the results very present. You are really a good healing woman! Thanks for your presence, light and service!”
— client treated for complex trauma including motorcycle accident
“Imagine walking in the door and being greeted by a warm embrace. Imagine that warm embrace continuing from the physical to the psychological, while you unload the crap that your head and heart has been nurturing and carrying over the decades. And leaving feeling like the pieces are beginning to fall into place. That layers upon layers of self hate and self battering are falling away. Chloe introduced me to Havening and as the magic took hold of me it didn’t take long to understand that this is what she was made for.”
— client treated for chronic migraine stemming from repressed emotions