MY PASSION

Hi I'm Lareen and I'm really passionate about being called into this role as a Women's Stress-Release Coach and Emotional Therapist! I help women to break free from the STRESS and TRAUMA that's keeping them stuck! Maybe you can't change your work, home or health situation, but I can certainly help you CHANGE YOUR EMOTIONAL REACTIONS without the need for willpower or cognitive effort, and to REDUCE YOUR STRESSLOAD. At the same time, I will help you understand why your nervous system and mind are reacting this way and how we can change that for the better. The method I use is evidence-based clinical EFT Tapping - or Emotional Freedom Techniques. I use it because I know first-hand that it works!

HOW THIS HELPED MY OWN STRESS

About 10 years ago I found myself getting more and more stressed by an increasingly toxic work environment with unrealistic work demands. At the same time, a number of my family members and close friends had been struggling with serious illness or injury, which meant I was frequently worrying for them too. My tension increased to the point of complete overwhelm, I was unable to relax or switch off at night, and eventually I seriously feared for my health. There was just so much to do and insufficient time to fit it all in. I tried using my logic, deep breathing and better time management, but they only helped a little.

And that's when I came across EFT Tapping. I attended a short workshop and found it looked a bit weird but it worked to reduce my stress a little! It had sparked my interest, so I booked in for a private session and was so pleased to finally be getting some effective stress-relief. The first thing we worked on was my daily email overwhelm. Next day I was sitting in front of my work computer feeling no bother at all with all those emails staring back at me. What a fabulous freeing feeling! I wanted more!

As I had a few more sessions, my husband and children noticed my stress levels reducing and that I was calmer around home. I also learned the basics of tapping so that I had a tool I could use when I needed to calm down or release some negative feelings on my own. And then I could see my practitioner again to guide me to offload the deeper stress of my tension backlog, and the unresolved bad memories from the past that I hadn't realised were still there behind the scenes and adding to my current-day stressload. I was so impressed, and intrigued with this technique that I decided to start training in it! By June 2018 I qualified as a practitioner so I could help my family and friends. And then I got really fired up when women started to ask me if I could do stress-release sessions on them. So eventually I gave up my university day-job so that I could really focus just on EFT in my expanding business, and having a "lifestyle change" for myself. In 2021 I went to Advanced Practitioner level, and then further to become an EFT Master Trainer.

I am qualified as an Advanced EFT Practitioner and EFT Master Trainer with EFT International - a UK-based charity and world leading EFT training and professional standards association. I have trained with the fabulously experienced Annie O’Grady (EFTi Mentor/Master Trainer in Adelaide) and Jade Barbee (EFTi Master Trainer of Trainers, USA). I have also received professional EFT mentoring from Sejual Shah (UK), Dr Craig Weiner & Dr Suzanne Fageol (USA), and Andy Hunt (UK). I maintain my accreditation with annual CPD and mentoring in EFT, I adhere to the conduct and ethics guidelines of, EFT International, and I continue to use and experiment with EFT almost daily on myself!

EMPOWERING WOMEN

I have always followed a vision to empowering women. I have been a consumer advocate to make Australia’s maternity services more woman-centred (1997-2015). I sat on a government committees that wrote our state's waterbirth policy, presented antenatal breastfeeding classes, was a Board Member for the SA Health Consumers Alliance, and authored "Better Birth: The Definitive Guide to Childbirth Choices" (2006; 2012, New Holland Publishers).

MY OTHER QUALIFICATIONS & EXPERIENCE

I hold a BA(Hons) in social & population geography, and a PhD in social science which looked at work, home and parenthood experiences influencing Australian women and men's family size choices and work-life balance. Before that, I spent over 30 years in high-demand environments, including international banking, not-for-profits, universities, and federal government. Of those, I spent 15 years in Australian universities as a researcher, a research institute deputy director, a PhD supervisor, an academic mentor, a journal editor, grant reviewer and grants and research advisor. And then there is home life... I am a wife and a mum to three wonderful children in their mid-20s.