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RAFT (Recovery/Reconnection and Floatation Therapy)

Our exclusive approach to ACE’s and Trauma recovery.

Adverse childhood experiences (ACE’s) can stay with us well past childhood impacting how we live, love and operate on a day to day basis. In childhood we make decisions about ourselves, other people and the world in general before we have the cognitive capacity (thinking ability) to challenge these decisions.
Unfortunately these adverse early life experiences can enable us to encode (store) emotions and beliefs that are less than helpful when it comes to establishing a sense of self, often giving us a fragmented internal operating system which leaves us more vulnerable to abuse (physical, emotional, financial, sexual etc).ACE Pyramid

ACE’s have a direct link to adult struggles with mental and physical health,



Research states an ACE score of 4 or more increases the risk of heart disease 3-fold and Type 2 diabetes 4-fold.

People with an ACE score of 4 or more are 6 times more likely to smoke and 14 times more likely to have experienced violence in the last 12 months

Increasing ACE score associated with increased and early alcohol and drug misuse, one study suggests with each additional ACE the rate of prescription drug use increases by 62%

ACEs in any category increased the risk of attempted suicide by 2- to 5-fold. ACE score of 6 or more increases risk by 25%

People with an ACE score of 6 or more have a life expectancy of 20 years less than those with a score of 0 because of illness, violence and suicide.

So how can we help?

Our exclusive RAFT programme will support you to establish a sense of self and be focussed on the things you would like in your life, rather than the things you are trying to avoid.

By using pschosensory and the latest neuroscientific approaches to connecting the body and the mind we remove the emotional drivers from the physical and mental memories where they have been harvested.




Our 2.5hr programme includes a 1 hour 1-1 session with our highly skilled and qualified therapist Vivian McKinnon followed by a 60 minute floatation session.

RAFT works by removing the emotional components and identifying the learnings of these experiences to create new neuropathways and remove the pain of the past, when you deal with the root cause there is no longer a focus on managing symptoms.

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