The Path to Calm.
From Overwhelm to Ease.
Safety before Strategy.
In our Tomatis® partnership, we move from the exhaustion of sensory and emotional overwhelm to a state of inner comfort. By focusing on sensory and emotional regulation we unlock your brain's natural ability to process, focus, and thrive.
Potential thrives on a stable foundation.
We start by ensuring your nervous system feels safe and regulated through the power of sound. By retraining the ear-brain connection, we create the "mental space" needed for effective communication, emotional regulation, cognitive clarity, and accurate sensory perception.
A note on our partnership:
Tomatis® is not a 'passive' treatment, it is a collaborative retraining of the sensory and nervous system. It is a scientifically backed method designed to reduce the noise of the world so that your nervous system feels safer and your internal strengths can be heard and utilised.
Locate the Profile
We use a listening evaluation to identify how your brain currently processes sound and where sensory barriers are holding you in limbo.
Resolve the Filtering
We use specialised headphones and acoustics to "exercise' the middle ear and brain, smoothing out the patterns of how you receive and interpret the world.
Restore the Connection
We move beyond immediate sensory and emotional relief into lasting focus, social confidence, and the freedom to engage fully with life.
The Tomatis® Practice.
Effective sensory and emotional regulation retraining requires a blend of professional assessment and at home participation. While the listening programme created for each person is designed for at home use, our partnership begins and is anchored through in-person expertise.
In-Person Assessment: To ensure precision, listening evaluations and programme updates are conducted in-person in my office in Hamilton.
Safety of your own space: Once your programme is set, the specialised Tomatis® technology allows you to complete your listening sessions at home - where your nervous system is more likely to be in it's comfort zone.
Expert Guidance: You are never left to navigate the process alone. We bridge the gap between in-person checks with regular check-ins to monitor your progress and fine-tune your path the regulation.
The path to calm is open!
A more settled version of you is waiting.
Our 15 minute introductory call is a quiet, low-pressure space for us to discuss your goals for sensory and/or emotional regulation and ensure the Tomatis® Method is the right bridge to your growth.
Client Testimonials
"My life has now changed for the better I never ever thought my mind would feel so clear and tame. I can now go out and about without worrying about my bowel and anxiety."
Mark, New Zealand
Client Testimonials
"My anxiety is now under control and I am able to think more clearly and logically. I am not consumed by negative thoughts like I was before seeing Debbie."
Tina, New Zealand
Client Testimonials
"Today I was walking around in a very crowded area in a big city ...and I felt great!! No panic or anxiety ..just the freedom to be present with life and my friends. It felt just like I used to be ... I was safety conscious of my belongings by not intimidated by people.
I felt alive and truly had an awesome day. Thank you so much ...I am so grateful🙏for the gift you have given back to my life❤️
Michelle, New Zealand
Client Testimonials
"I have a greater sense of peace and better connections with people which has led to less of a life struggle overall."
Fran, New Zealand
Client Testimonials
"It has been a few weeks after my final session with Debbie and I am honestly feeling so good and far more balanced than I was previously. I am really starting to notice changes in things that we worked on and I also have a better understanding of situations around me."
Bea, New Zealand
Client Testimonials
"Working with Free to Bee was the best decision I ever made.
I had bad anger management problems and thought no one could understand me or help me. Debbie was amazing in helping me and getting me back on track to the life I would like myself to have and to enjoy."
Kane, New Zealand
Client Testimonials
"I can smile when I look in the mirror and celebrate every small step as it happens. The work I have done with Debbie has given me the power to accept who I am, to be proud of who I am and what I have achieved and the strength to follow my dreams, living my life in powerful peace."
Michelle, New Zealand
Client Testimonials
"My favourite areas of my work has been the work we did on values. This was an incredible session that rocked my world because it opened up a whole arena of how to go forward in life.
By knowing my values I now know what my goals are. I’ve been able to take on things I wouldn’t have been able to before with confidence."
Nicholas, New Zealand
Please Note:
Free to Be is not a Medical or Mental Health Agency or Service. We are not qualified medical or mental health professionals. Our training is to help clients move beyond life challenges that they believe are holding them back, so they can experience a greater quality of life.
As a qualified Life Coach, we welcome people wanting to improve their quality of life.
As a student or trainee Solution Focused Counsellor we support people wanting to improve their quality of life, through honouring their past to create change in the present and their future.
We are trained in Tomatis® auditory retraining and are passionate about Tomatis support for ADHD and other neurodiversities, emotional dysregulation and burnout.
While our services may contribute to increasing a person's overall resilience and ability to thrive despite life's challenges, it is not a replacement for medical or mental health help, support, diagnosis or advice.
If you are in crisis or looking for a mental health service for trauma, addiction, or abuse of any kind, please click the link below for a list of agencies providing assistance.