Consultations Tuesday – Saturday: 10:00 am – 6:00 pm • 10 Pitt Street, Riverstone NSW 2765 • 0410 288 511
THERAPY SERVICES
Type of Therapy
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
Heena Raikar
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 practice
YOGA
Heena completed her training in 2006 and is Level 2 registered with Yoga Australia. Since then she has used yoga as a therapeutic tool to benefit people coping with chronic health conditions such as cardiac conditions and pain, as well as mental health conditions like depression and anxiety.
She also uses Yoga Therapy elements with patients experiencing a variety of mental health concerns including depression, anxiety, bipolar, eating disorders, Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder and Autism Spectrum Disorder.
Heena aims to spread the message that yoga is a mind-body modality that helps improve mental health through the medium of the body, breath and 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.
Further reading from Yoga Australia: Advancing the profession of yoga therapy in Australia.
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.
In the alpha state serotonin is released, which helps you reach a transformational experience of inner calm. From this place fluctuations in the mind begin to decrease and you start to feel more at ease. The body moves into stillness and a deep feeling of tranquillity and relaxation occurs.
Hypnotherapy
Hypnotherapy is a therapeutic technique in which 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.
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.
For a range of therapy services, contact RaiCare Health Specialist today
Call 0410 288 511 or email raicarehealthspecialist@gmail.com