Range of Therapy Services in Riverstone, NSW
Explore a range of therapy services offered at Riverstone, New South Wales from RaiCare Health Specialist. Contact our experienced team to book your appointment and learn more about our therapeutic approaches.
Our Therapist
Our Therapist
Heena Raikar is trained as a Clinical Social Worker, a Counsellor , Nutritionist as well as a Yoga Therapist who excels in therapy for those with complex problems. She has 30 years of extensive experience within public and private mental health services with all age groups, most of her patients are from 5- 80 years of age.
Heena Raikar is a Clinical Social worker who has been in practice for 30 years, in Public Health and Private Practice. She enjoys working with individuals and families across all ages of the lifespan. She is very passionate about treating mental health presentations through a psychosomatic lens due to her being a trained yoga therapist and a Nutritionist. She works with issues including anxiety, depression, childhood and inter-generational trauma, as well as other chronic conditions.
She has trauma training in attachment focused EMDR, Somatic therapies and in Trauma Informed Stabilization Treatment, along with CBT, DBT , Hypnotherapy, Mindfulness practices, Bio-feedback as well as Neuro-Feedback. She is a also a credentialed Eating Disorder therapist and EMDRAA registered.
Yoga
She completed her training in 2006, and is a level 2 registered with Yoga Australia.
Since then she uses yoga for a therapeutic tool to benefit people coping with chronic health conditions like cardiac conditions, pain as well as mental health conditions like depression, anxiety.
Heena also uses Yoga Therapy elements while all her patients with variety of Mental Health Concerns like Depression , Anxiety Bipolar, Eating Disorder ,Attention Deficit Hyperactive Disorder and Autism Spectrum Disorder.
Heena aims to spread the message ‘Yoga is a Mind Body modality', that helps to improve Mental Health though the medium of our body, breath or postures.
Yoga Therapy
Yoga therapy is a mind-body practice that focuses on your physical, emotional and mental health. The practice uses movement, mindfulness, meditation, relaxation and breathing exercises to help you relax, relieve stress and manage underlying conditions or symptoms in addition to treatment by a healthcare provider.
Here's a Blog link from The Yoga Australia website that gives more insight.
https://yogaaustralia.org.au/advancing-the-profession-of-yoga-therapy-in-australia-a-time-for-reflection/
Yoga Nidra
The term Yoga Nidra means yogic or psychic sleep. It is a state of consciousness between waking and sleeping, induced by a guided meditation.
The benefits of Yoga Nidra
In alpha state Serotonin is released, which helps you to reach a transformational experience of inner calm. From this place fluctuations in the mind start to decrease and you begin to feel more at ease. The body moves into stillness and a deep feeling of tranquillity and relaxation occurs.
Here's a recording for your benefit to listen to:
Hypnotherapy
Hypnotherapy is a therapeutic technique in which is a trance-like state of focused attention is induced through a deep relaxation practice . This state gives access to the subconscious mind to address issues of concern like fears or deeply ingrained habits like smoking or gambling or excessive eating. During this practice you have control and you do not lose consciousness.
Ask about it to get more information.
Neuro- Feedback
The brain responds to ‘information’ on a conscious and non conscious manner, and typically without any assistance. We have the ability for complex processing and this is typically determined by how efficiently it functions as a self-organizing dynamical and transformational system. We find most tasks like breathing, eating, and digestion are ultimately performed without our focused attention! Once we have learned a task such as reading, writing, riding a bike, and even driving, we rarely think about how we do it again.
For more reading:
https://neuroptimal.com/wp-content/uploads/pdfs/new-user-resources/E-book-EN.pdf
Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR)
Traumatic events and/or disturbing adverse life experiences can be encoded maladaptively in memory resulting in inadequate or impaired linkage with memory networks containing more adaptive information. EMDR procedures facilitate the effective reprocessing of traumatic events or adverse life experiences and associated beliefs, to an adaptive resolution. Specific procedural steps are used to access and reprocess information which incorporates alternating bilateral visual, auditory, or tactile stimulation.
More info : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iSHuFHFrUis&t=14s
