About
Unravel was created from a simple but deeply felt truth:
"trauma does not disappear just because we learn to cope with it."
We take a modern, remote approach to trauma and addiction recovery, designed to gently work at the root of stored patterns rather than managing symptoms. It offers a simple, private pathway to support the nervous system and restore balance.
Medication, talk therapy and Unravel aren’t competing answers to the same question — they’re different doorways. None of them replaces the others.
Our story
Unravel exists to support you in gently releasing what has been held for too long. We work to restore a sense of inner coherence, dignity, and choice, helping you move through life with a clearer mind and a steadier pulse.
When stress or prolonged emotional strain isn’t fully processed, it remains active in the body. This stored tension often shapes our health, relationships, and daily experiences without us even realising it.
The name and logo — a dissolving, hand-drawn scribble — represent the actual process of unravelling and reweaving. Recovery is rarely linear; patterns loosen in layers, and knots dissolve in their own time, much like untying a tangled thread.
Sitting at the intersection of technology and consciousness, Unravel offers a precise way to shift complex patterns. It is a gentle, invitation-based process designed to restore balance without force or re-traumatisation.
High-functioning
Pushing through
The constant drive to stay busy and productive as a way to outrun internal noise. Unravel helps you find the brakes before you reach burnout.
Self-soothing
Numbing out
Reaching for substances, screens, or habits to quiet the system. We work to restore natural safety so the need to numb begins to dissolve.
Hyper-vigilance
Reaching for more
An internal restless search for external solutions to a nervous system problem. Unravel gently points you back to your own internal regulation.
Our approach to recovery
Unravel combines modern technology with a trauma-responsive focus. We help you support nervous system regulation, process emotions, and create meaningful behavioural change.
"Trauma isn’t just a memory — it’s held in the nervous system and how the body reacts to stress today."
Unravel moves beyond standard symptom management or retelling difficult stories. It is built to support lasting change that is accessible, private, and fits into real life — all from the safety of your own home.
CONSCIOUSNESS TECHNOLOGY, SIMPLY
The technology supports the process — it isn’t the story by itself. The human problem is the story.
The pattern is the story. The change in response is the story.
Our mission and vision
Unravel exists to support people navigating trauma, PTSD, addiction and survival-based coping patterns — offering a pathway back to stability, dignity and functional life.
The vision is a world where trauma no longer defines identity, and where addiction no longer interrupts a person’s life purpose. A world where individuals can regulate, integrate and contribute — beginning in Aotearoa and rippling outward into the wider field.
The mission is simple and grounded: to reduce harm and increase resilience, one individual at a time. Each pattern released restores flow not only within the person, but within families, workplaces and communities.
Meet the coach
Unravel is led by founder and practitioner Haitske, whose work focuses on trauma, behavioural patterns, and nervous system regulation through consciousness technology.
Based in the Bay of Plenty, she finds grounding in simple rituals — a good espresso, a local beach walk, and creating quieter, more intentional ways of living and working. The irony isn’t lost on her: caffeine is one of the patterns Unravel can work with. For her, espresso is a ritual of choice, not a habit.
She comes to this work from business, not a clinic. Before Unravel, she worked in business operations: managing teams, training people and building the systems that keep a workplace running. Alongside a background in Organisational Psychology, she kept seeing the same thing — unresolved stress and trauma quietly shaping how people work, connect and cope. Unravel grew out of wanting to do something about it.
A certified practitioner in consciousness technology, she brings experience spanning wellness and human systems. She understands that unresolved stress doesn’t just stay in the past — it shapes how we think, feel, and function every single day.
Alongside leading Unravel, she continues advanced professional study and is laying the groundwork for the Unravel Foundation, launching soon.
CLIENT REFLECTIONS
Reflections from clients who have experienced Unravel. These notes are not endorsements or outcomes to replicate. They are simple reflections — what clients noticed, felt or recognised through the process. Each journey is different. Each experience unfolds in its own timing.
I noticed a subtle but clear shift in how I connect with people, and less craving for online gaming. Instead of gaming all night, I’m getting a full eight hours of sleep.
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M.B. | BAY OF PLENTY, NZ
The process felt very gentle. I gradually recognised patterns in my cravings that I hadn't seen before. It wasn't about willpower, just a slow unravelling of the habit.
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ANON | NEW ZEALAND
There is a new sense of space in my nervous system. Anxiety used to feel like a tight knot; now I have capacity to breathe through the moments that used to overwhelm me.
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