Oasis, the Wellingborough Trauma Centre
Relief from stressful events with the help of a team of therapists who specialise in helping people with emotional problems caused by abnormal life events, using particular complementary therapies that have been found to be effective with this kind of problem. This is an established project working in association with Victim Support and Women's Aid and supported by the EMDA Fund, managed by Northamptonshire Community Foundation.
Who is it for?
Anyone who is still suffering stress and difficulties after traumatic experiences, such as accidents, assaults, harassment, burglary and other kinds of disturbing or threatening events including the sudden death of someone close.
What is on offer?
A free initial consultation to explain the service and discuss how we may help you.
Then a series of weekly treatment sessions to help you overcome your difficulties.
You are asked to contribute to the cost of each session an amount you feel you can afford.
How does it work?
These treatments release the energy patterns of disturbed emotions from the mind-body system, allowing you to be yourself again, calm and relaxed. The emotions we feel are our subjective experience of our own energies. By working directly with energies, we bypass the need to re-experience traumatic events in order to rework them.
In most of these energy therapies you lie comfortably on a couch, fully clothed, and you will find that you relax and rest while the healing takes place. Sometimes the work may be done while you are seated in a chair.
Therapies on offer
Your therapist will use a combination of these treatments:
Neuro-Muscular Transmission ( NMT )
NMT is a new therapy developed here which has proved very effective in releasing trauma. The therapist normally works by placing her hands on your head to enable gentle movements which allow the mind-body system to restore itself to its natural state of being. Sometimes she works on other parts of the body or in the energy field around the body.
Reiki
Reiki is a newly popular form of healing. The therapist places her hands on or near different parts of the body in order to transmit healing energies from nature to restore you to health.
Crystal therapy
Crystal therapy involves selecting crystals and placing them at different positions on or around your body. These crystals transmit specific vibrations which bring the energy system back into harmony.
Colour and resonance
Colour essences and toning of the voice transmit other healing vibrations.
Bach flower remedies
Bach Flower Remedies are drops taken in the mouth which allow you to treat yourself.
Counselling
Counselling gives you the opportunity to talk through your problems to make sense of what has and is happening and decide on your path ahead.
Psychological therapy
Other psychological therapies are available, including Eye-Motor Desensitisation and Reprocessing (EMDR), the Emotional Freedom Technique (EFT) – itself an energy treatment - and the Rewind technique. These are the most advanced and specific psychological treatments. We generally find however that the energy treatments do most of the work and these are often not required.
How do I get started?
Simply telephone 01933 224454 and book a first appointment with the OASIS.
Or call in and speak to a receptionist and have a look at the centre for yourself.
Callistherapy Healing Centre is open to the general public. It is in Wellingborough town centre, near the entrance to Morrisons car park at the junction of Oxford Street and Sharman Road.
OASIS is run by a team of experienced therapists working at Callistherapy in association with Victim Support and Women’s Aid.
More details?
Self help information can be found here..
Further information about the project, how it runs, evaluation of its effectiveness and how it is financed, can all be found in the Annual Report.
A second project is run on similar lines to help people with long-term mental health problems. This is called CALM.
