It’s Time to Let Your Body Breathe Again
A nervous-system–led pathway back to calm, clarity, and ease.
When we don’t know how to manage stress, we feel overwhelmed and that overwhelm can go on to create burnout and self-distruction. We don’t think clearly. We make poor choices, and we push loved ones away.
When our bodies feel “under threat” from stressors, we change our default. “Normal” becomes defined by internal chatter, a constant sense of pressure, and sub-optimal health. We know it’s not good for us, we want to change, yet we continue all the same. Such is modern Western life.
How can I reduce the feeling of overwhelm in my life?
If you want an optimal life, you must use “stress” effectively. Identifying and respecting that it’s okay to live on adrenaline once in a while, as long as you balance that out with times of calm and centredness. In part, this means reframing limiting beliefs, so you reduce unnecessary demands and hold yourself accountable for your health and wellbeing.
Dustie designed this therapeutic pathway for people who want to regain control of their lives, so they can enjoy every day for its natural ups and downs and perform at their absolute best.
Dustie’s patients understand that stress, physical and emotional overload, and life transitions don’t just live in the mind — they live in the body and nervous system. Causing disruption and (eventually) dis-ease if left unchecked.
One Pathway. Four Integrated Stages.
The outcome: inner stillness, capacity, and conscious movement forward
The Conscious Reset Framework (Personal Pathway) is expressed through four complementary strands, each supporting a different aspect of the human system.
The Initial Consultation which gives you 90 minutes of uninterrupted time to explore and share. A chance for you to meet Dustie and ensure this is the right pathway for you.
The Therapeutic Deep Relaxation and Emotional Reset sessions are body-based and grounded in osteopathy, with a strong focus on nervous system regulation and internal safety.
Strategic Intervention Coaching sessions are separate, conversation-based sessions, which provide clarity on who you are, why you do what you do and how to get you from where you are, to where you want to be. You will learn to understand your limiting beliefs, decision-making processes, and what makes you tick. You will also learn how to better communicate with others, at home and at work.
The three approaches below are not stand-alone services. They are woven together intentionally. Why? Because classical approaches to stress-management can be helpful at reducing stress going forward, but they don’t help to unwind the stress already caught up in your body.
Four Steps To Reset Your Life
Step 1. Book an Online Consultation
The process begins with a conversation to allow Dustie to explore your needs, explain how the process works, and determines whether proceeding in person is appropriate or needed. This step ensures clarity, suitability, and clear professional boundaries before any appointments are arranged.
The initial face-to-face session is up to 90-minutes and is the Foundational Session. This session establishes a clear baseline, and provides a felt sense of how this work unfolds. It also allows Dustie to determine what, if any, ongoing support would be beneficial.
In-person sessions are offered by mutual agreement following this conversation.
Ongoing sessions are offered in curated packages, tailored to individual needs. These are discussed following the foundational session, once there is clarity on what will be most supportive.
Step 2: Therapeutic Deep Relaxation Session
(Soothe your body and mind)
These deeply restorative sessions use gentle osteopathic technique, functional bodywork, and subtle energetic balancing to calm the mind, and body to create the perfect canvas for Step 2 and Step 3.
The intention is simple but powerful: to help your body step out of protective holding patterns and return to a state of ease, balance, and internal trust.
This work forms the foundation of the pathway.
A hands-on, osteopathy-informed session designed to support physical ease and nervous system regulation. Using gentle techniques and subtle integrative approaches, this work helps the body settle out of protective patterns and return towards balance and calm.
This session can be booked after your initial consultation. See above.
Step 3: The Emotional Reset
(reset your nervous system)
Supporting balance, integration, and self-regulation.
Emotional Reset sessions build on deep relaxation by helping the body gently unwind emotional load that has been stored over time.
Depending on your needs, sessions may include a blend of osteopathy, craniosacral therapy, breathwork, meditation, gentle movement, and guided regulation tools. You are also supported to develop simple practices you can use at home, so calm and coherence extend beyond the treatment room.
This work helps bridge body awareness and emotional processing, ensuring change is felt — not just understood.
An experiential session that supports emotional processing and calming of the autonomic through gentle osteopathic technique, craniosacral work, breathwork, guided awareness, and movement. These sessions help clients develop a felt sense of calm and provide practical regulation tools that can be used in everyday life.
Step 4: Strategic Intervention Coaching
Creating clarity, choice, and forward momentum.
Strategic Intervention is a practical, human approach derived from the work of Milton Erikson, that supports your understanding of why certain patterns persist — and how to respond differently to achieve different outcomes. It focuses on emotional and psychological patterns that drive human behaviour, so you better understand what drives you and those around you.
Strategic Intervention draws on several established schools of thought around human behaviour and change, including strategic and Ericksonian-influenced approaches, while remaining firmly focused on present-day choice and action.
The Philosophy Behind the Work
Through more than 30 years of clinical, educational, and leadership experience, Dustie has learned that meaningful change only becomes possible once the nervous system feels safe enough to allow it.
When the system is overloaded:
- Insight doesn’t land
- Concentration dwindles
- Communication breaks down
- The body holds tension, fatigue, and protective patterns
- People remain reactive, even when they “know better”
- The body feels constantly tired.
This work operates at the interface between physical structure, emotional processing, and autonomic regulation, creating the internal conditions required for clarity, resilience, and conscious choice.
Who is best suited to this pathway?
This integrated therapeutic pathway may be supportive if you are:
- Aligned with the idea that emotional and physical health are closely intertwinded
- Open to taking action, one step at a time, towards optimal health
- Living with chronic stress, overwhelm, or nervous-system fatigue
- Navigating a significant life, identity, or career transition
- Experiencing physical symptoms closely linked to emotional strain
- Finding that talk-based approaches alone are not helping
- Seeking deeper alignment between how you feel, function, and live
- Drawn to calm, nourishing therapeutic work that supports lasting change
Sessions are always gentle, responsive, and tailored to the individual.
What this work is not…
This Personal Pathway is not:
- Symptom-chasing or injury focused care
- A quick fix or one-off self-gift
- Designed for those unwilling to engage with self-awareness and personal accountability
- A substitute for emergency, psychiatric, or medical intervention
- A substitute for injury management or MSK conditions. Referrals can be recommended.
- For those who are resistant to change.
Availability is intentionally limited to ensure focus can be given to Dustie’s 1-2-1 clients.
NOTE: Patients who have an injury, MSK symptoms or a pathology under medical supervision, this work is not appropriate as a standalone treatment. You would be better to seek a medical professional or MSK specialist and if you wish to follow this pathway as an adjunct, drop us an email on hello@dustiehouchin.com
Is this work more suited to women?
Not necessarily, but it helps if you are open to exploring new ways of approaching your health and are happy speaking openly.
Is it suitable for children?
Children benefit grately from osteopathic care and they benefit from Strategic Intervention, but the way they process the world is very different to adults, so it very much depends on the child, the circumstance and their age.
Alongside her other qualifications, Dustie holds a Postgraduate Certificate in Paediatric Osteopathy and is happy to work with other professionals, such as a Child Psychologist, where necessary, so she is happy to explore options, but parents would need to discuss the case with her before booking. If you would like your child considered for coaching and treatment, please contact Dustie’s team on hello@dustiehouchin.com
All children under the age of 18 must be accompanied by one of their parents or their Legal Guardian (as appointed by the Courts). Friends or other family members are not suitable. This is to comply with GOsC regulations around consent.
Where are the therapeutic sessions held?
Dustie works from her practice in Lymington, UK, where sessions are currently offered on Wednesdays and Saturdays. By appointment only. The exact location of the practice will be shared when you book your first therapeutic session. This is to provide privacy to all who book.
Strategic Intervention sessions run alongside the therapeutic work, as they significantly enhance regulation, continuity, and long-term benefit.
A Note on Alignment
Dustie’s clinical work directly informs the work she does with professionals, business owners, and organisations. After decades of running businesses and leading people, she understands how easily self-care — and human care — gets lost.
This ensures that everything she offers remains human, embodied, and grounded in real nervous systems, not theory alone.
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