Trauma does not define you. It is something that happened to you. Your body, your breath, and your nervous system still remember. But it doesn’t have to shape who you are becoming.
“I’ve walked the path you’re walking now. I know how deeply isolating trauma feels: the overwhelming waves of anxiety, the sleepless nights, the fear that feels all-consuming. But I’ve also experienced the profound relief and lasting freedom that comes from truly facing and healing those wounds. My own journey taught me practical methods to reclaim my safety and my peace – and I am here to help you do the same.”
– Natacha
Meet Natacha
I’m Natacha—a trauma-informed psychotherapist blending Energy Psychology, Matrix Reimprinting, Somatic EMDR, IFS, and TRE® into my practice. Originally from France, I now call South Africa home and offer sessions in both French and English.
As an intuitive empath, I have a gift for truly understanding people. My lifelong curiosity for how the mind and body shape each other has led me to study emotional intelligence, neuroscience, epigenetics, and the healing power of breath, movement, and the healing power of nature. And it’s deeply informed by my own healing journey.
My approach is compassionate, practical, and deeply respectful of your pace. I believe that healing happens when we feel safe, heard, and empowered. Together, we’ll explore what’s holding you back—and gently release it, so you can feel lighter, freer, and more connected to yourself and the world around you. Because healing doesn’t just happen in the mind. It happens when we feel we belong—within ourselves, and within the natural world.
Hardships in your life
If you’re reading this, you might be feeling stuck, alone, in pain, overwhelmed, or caught in patterns that keep you from moving forward in your life. You may have tried talk therapy, read self-help books, or worked with personal development tools, and yet, the emotional weight lingers.
That’s because trauma isn’t just a story you tell. It lives in your body, in your breath, and in your nervous system.
It shows up in so many ways: anxiety, fear of rejection, perfectionism, people-pleasing, chronic fatigue, procrastination, and more. You are not alone—70% of us will experience a traumatic event in our lives. The good news? You can heal.
Here’s how I can help
Through a holistic mind-body approach, I combine gentle, proven techniques like Energy Psychology, Somatic EMDR, IFS (Internal Family Systems), Matrix Reimprinting,
and TRE® (Tension and Trauma Release Exercises) to support your healing.
These tools help you process past events, release the emotional charge that weighs you down, and find safety within yourself. We work together in a compassionate, confidential space, where you can feel safe to open up, explore what’s coming up for you, and begin to unlearn patterns that no longer serve you.
You don’t have to retell every detail of your story. We’ll work in the present moment, bringing awareness to how the past continues to affect your life, relationships, and sense of self. With each session, you’ll gently reconnect with your body, learn to manage emotions with kindness, and find the resilience to move forward. This is about restoring balance, building new pathways, and helping you step into the life you want.
Work with me
I offer a gentle, holistic approach to trauma healing—one that includes the mind, body, and emotions. Together, we’ll look at what’s showing up in your life now: your thoughts, behaviours, feelings, and the patterns that are keeping you stuck. You’ll be welcomed into a space of warmth, compassion, and confidentiality—where you can feel safe to be yourself and start unpacking what’s ready to be seen and released.
Whether we’re working with a specific event or an ongoing emotional pattern, we stay in the present moment, bringing gentle awareness to how the past may still be influencing your life today.
Your sessions will help you:
- Understand your reactions and emotional patterns.
- Gently shift the coping mechanisms that no longer serve you.
- Build tools for grounding, emotional safety, and nervous system regulation.
- Make room for resilience, joy, and new possibilities.
If I combine tools like Energy Psychology, Somatic EMDR or IFS, TRE® is a separate modality on its own.
What is trauma?
Trauma is an Unexpected, Dramatic, Isolated Moment with No Strategy (U.D.I.M.N.S). It happens when your nervous system is overwhelmed by an experience you’re unable to process.
This means trauma isn’t just something that happened to you—it’s what happened inside you as a result. It’s the overwhelm your body and nervous system felt when something unexpected, dramatic, and isolating happened—and you had no way to cope.
Sometimes it’s obvious. Sometimes it’s not. Trauma can be a single event, a long-term pattern, or even something we can’t clearly name. But it always leaves a mark on the way we feel, think, and relate to the world, sometimes long after the event has passed, shaping how you see yourself and the world. But it is possible to heal.
How trauma shows up in our lives
Trauma can show up in ways you might not expect. You might feel anxious, on edge, or deeply afraid of being rejected or abandoned.
You might struggle to trust others, feel stuck, or caught in patterns you can’t seem to break—like perfectionism, people-pleasing, procrastination, or emotional outbursts. You might feel numb, disconnected, exhausted, or like you’re not really living at all.
It can look like:
- Anxiety, panic, or social withdrawal
- Flashbacks, nightmares, or PTSD
- Low self-worth and self-sabotage
- Struggles with anger, guilt, or shame
- Depression, chronic fatigue, or burnout
- Dissociation or feeling emotionally “flat”
- Eating disorders, self-harm, or compulsive behaviours
If any of this feels familiar, please know: you’re not broken—and you’re not alone. You can heal…
Nature Connexion
Personal transformation – powered by Nature.
Aside from my therapy practice, I have founded Nature Connexion. Nature Connexion curates transformative retreats in the African wilderness for facilitators, teachers, therapists, corporates willing to share with their clients a journey of interconnectedness. Behind every unique Nature Connexion experience is a deep passion and a clear vision. I bring 20 years of immersion in the African wilderness, tourism expertise, and a profound understanding of human psychology through my therapy practice.
My Philosophy? To weave these threads together – the awe and power of nature, self-development, wellness or healing techniques – creating truly transformative retreats right here in the stunning landscapes of Southern Africa. It’s about crafting safe, sacred spaces for you to connect, heal, and be empowered by Mother Nature. There is, in my humble opinion, no better place to start / be on a healing journey than in the wilderness.
We, as humans, belong to nature: I see how fast our participants reconnect to their true Self and find a place of belonging and true connection while attending our retreats.
Client Testimonials
I asked Natacha to do a tapping session with me as I was simply interested to see what it was all about. What I experienced was very powerful. Deep emotions that I did not know I was holding onto came to the surface during the treatment. Natacha gently guided me through the experience with understanding and compassion.
There was no judgement and I felt safe. I enjoyed the consistent, comforting tapping and wise words Natacha used throughout the treatment. I felt relieved and exhausted after the treatment and I am really looking forward to another session.
Chloe, Reflexologist
I had the chance to benefit from Natacha’s support for two months last year when I felt devastated by the announcement of my little sister’s stage 4 cancer. Although being a therapist myself and trained in the practice of EFT, I still felt the need to be accompanied by a professional. I am full of gratitude for having met Natacha during this period of my life.
My weekly sessions with her have always been very powerful, liberating and transformational.
Thanks to his great expertise in EFT, I was able to learn how to better manage my flow of emotions, to find a little inner serenity and to take a step back. I felt understood, heard and supported. I highly recommend Natacha to anyone who feels the need to transcend their negative and painful emotions and who aspires to find some inner peace.
Thank you again Natacha for your professionalism and your beautiful light.
Johanna
I did some EFT sessions with Natacha and I highly recommend using this technique to optimise your health and release psychological and emotional tensions. It is also extremely powerful and efficient in dealing with trauma. Natacha is very competent in facilitating gentle and safe releases, and experienced in dealing with pain and traumatic events to clear emotional blocks. A powerful technique to restore balance and heal.
Françoise, Kinesiologist
I decided to see Natacha because I was stuck with a specific issue on a professional level. The session went gently and resulted in childhood wounds that surfaced. This shook me and felt as if something was shifting. It felt so good to be able to face things and deal with them emotionally. As if I had got rid of a big burden. Natacha’s session was very professional, filled with humanity and true listening.
Natacha finds the right words and does not try and put herself in your shoes, or project in any way. I have experienced EFT before but with this session, I had such good results. I felt totally relieved. After our session and the following days, my professional blockage/issue had disappeared. A big thank you.
Catherine
I lived in New York City and witnessed the terror attacks of 9-11. Shortly thereafter, I had some symptoms of PTSD but the legacy of that experience was a base state of anxiety that was hard for me to shake and as the years went by I just thought of that anxiety as ‘me’. Natacha used various techniques to guide me through my memories and let the feelings I had repressed come out. She did this gently and I felt very safe and supported. It was a beautiful and transformative release. I left the sessions a lighter and more integrated person. I am very grateful for Natacha’s skillful and gentle healing and would highly recommend her to anyone.
Jessica
I approached Natacha a few years ago when I was presented with the opportunity to finally take the leap into the world of simultaneous interpreting, something I’d been avoiding or postponing due to insecurities. It’s a skill I knew I had and could further develop but that I hadn’t had the courage to really explore till then. Simultaneous interpreting is a mentally taxing, high stress profession that requires speed of thought 1000% concentration for long stretches at a time and comes with great responsibility. Two colleagues conspired for me to take that leap and I couldn’t turn it down. And then anxiety kicked in. I was terrified of messing up. Interestingly, that first interpreting job came at around the same time as my dysfunctional relationship at the time was ending, and with all that a whole opening up to change and growth. I booked a session with Natacha a couple of days before that job, hoping EFT would help me prepare mentally for the challenge. And it did. She guided the session beautifully through specific questions, with a lot of care and wisdom. There was a huge release when we explored where that fear, rooted in childhood experiences, came from. And the immediate effects just after the following sessions were a feeling of lightness and of having processed through something heavy. There was still concern for the upcoming job, but the anxiety and the ups and downs going between the emotional extremes of “I’ve totally got this” to “Who the hell am I kidding? I can’t do this!”, were gone. On day 1, after the nerves of the first few minutes as you get into the flow of the event and subject matter, which can still happen to the most experienced interpreter, I was fine. Half way through that day I remember sending Natacha an SMS that she said put a smile on her face: “I’m actually really f*ing good at this!
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I recently needed some help with an issue that I could not deal with. I went to Natasha for a session and had no idea what to expect. As the session began I immediately became emotional as my issue was very raw. It’s not normal for me to cry in front of someone that I didn’t know very well but I felt completely comfortable and open to share my feelings.
Natacha started doing something called tapping which I didn’t know about and as my emotions came up she would tap on certain points which made me slowly stop crying. It felt like my emotions came to the surface and I could deal with it and then let it go.
My issue was mostly about trying to help a family issue that actually had nothing to do with me and Natasha’s tapping session helped me let it go and allow them to sort it out. Since the session I feel that I don’t need to control every situation and find a solution.
I will certainly be going back for another one as Natasha is amazing at making me feel comfortable and in a safe space to share my emotions.
Lara Tranter
I did several EFT sessions with Natacha, and I was able to find calm and serenity in a period of very anxiety-provoking life. EFT and the techniques she taught me allowed me to overcome a phobia. A year later, I am still able to use them alone in stressful or post-traumatic situations. Natacha is very supportive and very educational. She understands things perfectly and EFT is very effective. I couldn’t do without it today.
Julie Doucet
Discovering EFT with Natacha Wauquiez was a very beneficial experience for me! Thanks to his very professional and empathetic support, I revisited and transformed a painful event in my life. I associated it with positive images and feelings that reduced its negative emotional charge and now allow me to think about it more calmly! Thanks!
Delbecq Bérengère
I had the chance to do EFT sessions with Natacha. The state of anxiety I was in at that time was extremely difficult to bear. This related to various labor issues. From the first session my anxieties decreased and the nervous tension was reduced. Natacha is an excellent EFT therapist with a rather exceptional gift of empathy and gentleness.
Manuela Despointes
After being in a vehicle accident with my daughter 2 years ago, Natacha offered EFT tapping for me to process the trauma and anxiety I was suffering as a result. Within days of my 1st session, I could not believe the relief I felt I cannot thank Natacha enough for being there during this difficult time and her guidance and care in helping me through it.
Colleen van Rooyen
What a deeply moving and enlightening experience this was. You go in thinking one thing, and other deep seated issues emerge. Natasha is gentle and compassionate and leads the sessions with sensitivity. I would not hesitate to recommend this practice.
Mark Baker
It was a very different experience, definitely helped me look deeper into my own issues and taught me how to deal with my anger. I felt that Natacha was very helpful with all the different aspects that came up for me. I will definitely go back for another session. Awesome Experience.
Gary Hampton
Natacha’s training, knowledge, empathy
and sensitivity ensure that her support is
of high quality.
E.L
You don’t need to do it alone.
