This is a different thing from a one-off session.

Single sessions work by feel. You notice what your body is doing and over time you notice it earlier. That's enough for a lot of people.

This package adds a second channel: a measurement you can watch respond. You practise something, and you see what your system does with it, not in the moment, but over days and weeks.

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What HRV is

Your heart doesn't beat like a metronome. The gap between beats varies slightly, all the time, and that variation shifts with how your body is doing. More variation broadly goes with a system recovering well; less with one under load, stress, poor sleep, illness, alcohol.

A single day tells you almost nothing. The trend is the part that means something.

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How the package works

Before we start. Once you've booked and paid, I post you a chest-strap sensor, included in the price and yours to keep. You wear it for five days, taking a short reading each morning. The account is in your name, so the readings are yours and you choose what to share.

Five days covers an ordinary week rather than a single snapshot, which is the only way the numbers mean much. It also means our first session doesn't start from nothing.

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In sessions. 60 minutes, fully clothed, no physical contact, online or in person. We work with what's happening in your body, and we practise specific things, breathing at a slower pace, orienting, settling while watching how your system responds.

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Between sessions. You keep taking readings and practising what we've worked on. The loop is the point: practise, notice, adjust. That's what makes this different from talking about your readings once a fortnight.

What we'd be looking for. Not a higher number. A more flexible system, one that goes up when it needs to and comes back down afterwards without dragging.

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Why a chest strap

Chest straps measure the heartbeat directly and are more accurate than wrist wearables, which read through the skin. For this kind of work the accuracy matters.

 

Honest about the evidence

HRV biofeedback has a reasonable research base for stress and general wellbeing, better than most things in this field. It's not a cure for anything, the effects vary between people, and much of the research uses clinical protocols rather than a consumer sensor at home. I'd rather you knew that going in.

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Timing

Allow about a week between booking and the first session: a few days for the sensor to arrive, then five days of readings. Faster if you're in Malta.

If you want to start sooner, somatic coaching without HRV begins as soon as we can find a slot.

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Who this suits

People who want structure and something to measure against. People who've lost touch with their own signals and can't tell tired from wired. People who'd find a chart more convincing than a feeling.

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Who it doesn't

If numbers make you anxious, skip this and take the simpler version. I've seen people let a morning reading decide their whole day, which is the opposite of what this is for.

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What this isn't

This isn't a medical measurement, a diagnosis, or a screening tool, and it shouldn't inform any decision about medication or medical care. The sensor is a consumer device, not medical equipment.

Supportive, body-based coaching. Not psychotherapy, counselling, or medical or psychiatric care, and not a crisis service. If you're working with a doctor or therapist, keep doing that, this sits alongside.

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Shipping

Malta and the UK. Elsewhere in the EU, ask on the first call.

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Your data

Account in your name, under the app's own privacy terms. You choose what to share. Anything shared is used only to support your sessions and never shared further without your consent. See my Privacy Policy.

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Cost

Click here for pricing for the package, sensor included and yours to keep. Payment confirms the booking and the sensor ships the same or next working day.

First conversation free, around 20 minutes, and we can work out which version suits you.