Safe & Dissociated Perspective
You revisit past experiences from a safe distance — without reliving or re-experiencing the distress. The process is gentle and always within your control.
TimeLine Therapy® at Open Arms Health is a powerful, goal-focused approach designed to help individuals release the emotional impact of past experiences that may still be influencing their present life and relationships.
Often, unresolved emotions such as fear, anger, sadness, guilt, or limiting beliefs can become stuck patterns — affecting confidence, connection, and wellbeing. TimeLine Therapy® helps you change that.
The focus is on understanding, learning, and release — rather than retelling or analysing the past in detail.
Using principles of Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP), TimeLine Therapy® works by gently guiding you to revisit experiences from a safe, dissociated perspective — allowing emotional responses to be resolved without needing to relive or re-experience distress.
At Open Arms Health, TimeLine Therapy® is used to support emotional healing, clarity, and personal growth. It can be particularly effective for relationship patterns, emotional triggers, self-sabotaging behaviours, and life transitions.
This approach empowers you to move forward with greater freedom, resilience, and alignment — creating space for healthier relationships and lasting change.
TimeLine Therapy® offers a distinct approach to emotional healing — one that is gentle, goal-focused, and empowering.
You revisit past experiences from a safe distance — without reliving or re-experiencing the distress. The process is gentle and always within your control.
Unlike traditional talk therapy, TimeLine Therapy® is focused on resolution and forward movement — creating empowering new patterns rather than dwelling in the past.
By addressing the root emotional charge of past experiences, changes tend to be deep and lasting — not just surface-level coping strategies.
TimeLine Therapy® sessions are 90 minutes — giving enough time for deep, meaningful work without feeling rushed. Here is what to expect.
We begin by clarifying what you want to achieve — what emotions, beliefs, or patterns you'd like to release and what you want to move towards.
Using TimeLine Therapy® and NLP techniques, we work through the emotional charge of past experiences from a safe, comfortable perspective.
Emotional responses are resolved — not by reliving them, but by understanding and releasing them at a deeper level.
We close by anchoring empowering new patterns and a clear vision of the future you want to create — aligned with your values and goals.
Everything you need to know before booking your first TimeLine Therapy® session.
"I cannot recommend Shawn highly enough. She is so easy to talk to and has helped me work through some really difficult feelings. I feel lighter, clearer, and more like myself than I have in years."