About DoraVera
The founding vision
A healing companion that honours both the depth of the wound and the depth of what you can become.
Why DoraVera exists
Sexual trauma is the silent infrastructure of many women's lives. It is linked to depression, chronic pain, autoimmune conditions, exhaustion, substance use and dissociation: not isolated symptoms, but the body's answer to what happened. The cost spreads through healthcare, workplaces and families, and across generations, while many women stay silent because speaking has cost them too much.
I believe women healing from sexual trauma are among the strongest people alive, and deserve tools that honour both the depth of the wound and the depth of what they can become. When I was healing, the options felt like two poles: clinical support that was safe but a bit cut off from the body, or spiritual communities that were warm but skipped the body, and sometimes safety. DoraVera sits in the honest middle, where science meets spirit and evidence meets reverence.
It is also women-centred, deliberately, so shared experience never needs explaining.
Why "DoraVera"?
Dora means "gift". Vera, my grandmother's name, means "truth". Together: the gift of your truth.
While researching women's health, I found On the Diseases and Cures of Women by Metrodora, one of the earliest known medical texts attributed to a woman. She documented women's bodies, pain and healing in her own name, in an era that gave her no permission to. Her work lasted because women's knowledge deserved to. Her name holds the same word as ours: dora, the gift.
How DoraVera works
- The body holds the story.Trauma isn't primarily a problem of memory; it's a pattern held in the nervous system: in held breath, braced muscles, closed-off regions of the body. So that's where we work. Every Layer combines understanding (mind), sensation (body) and meaning (soul).
- Healing happens at your pace, in safety.Nothing releases while the nervous system feels threatened. So everything in DoraVera begins with stabilisation (grounding practices, nervous-system regulation, an Emotional First Aid Kit) before any deeper work is invited. And invited is the word: nothing here is compulsory. Learning your own boundaries, choices and potential is part of the process.
- The beliefs came from somewhere."I am broken. I am unlovable. I am unworthy. Love isn't for me. I don't matter. I can't trust myself. I am alone." These aren't personality traits. They're scars: installed by what happened, held in place to protect you, and able to be updated when the conditions are safe enough. DoraVera works through each one, Layer by Layer.
- Science and spirit are partners.Polyvagal theory, neuroplasticity, memory reconsolidation, and alongside them the ancient map of the body's energy centres, honoured without dogma. If either language doesn't resonate with you, the other one still will.
- It finishes by living it.Healing that stays on the meditation cushion isn't finished. The final part of DoraVera, Integration, carries the work into relationships, boundaries, hard moments in the supermarket, peace in a quiet house.
What we hold to
Safety before depth
Every Layer begins with grounding. No one asks you to retell what happened, and crisis guidance is always free.
Science and spirit, together
Polyvagal theory and neuroplasticity alongside the body's energy centres. Take whichever language serves you.
You lead, we guide
You're the expert on your own life. DoraVera is a companion, not an authority.
Protection, honoured
Numbness and hypervigilance are adaptations, not disorders. They change when it's safe.
Your pace, always
No streaks, no deadlines, nothing compulsory. Small, repeated steps beat heroic and rare ones.
Privacy is sacred
We never sell your data.
Body before words
We settle the nervous system first, then invite reflection.
The founder behind DoraVera
About Hazel
I'm Hazel Rose: a trauma-informed holistic practitioner, a mum of three now-grown children, a seeker and a compassionate realist. Life can be tough, challenging, beautiful and magical, and mine has been all of those.
I worked in conservation in my twenties, trying to save the world, until it got too much. I set off to cycle from New Zealand to the UK and ended up living in the Himalayas, raising my young children there. For the last twenty-five years I've lived in West Wales, where I ran a wholefood store and trained in nutrition, naturopathy, spiritual counselling and coaching. Later came neural rewiring, plant spirit medicine and somatic movement.
All of it began as a search to understand what was "wrong with me". I was living in functional freeze: looking fine on the outside, falling apart inside. Eventually I understood the beliefs and behaviours I'd built to cope with sexual assault and other experiences. After spending hundreds of hours and a great deal of my savings on healing, I found almost nothing that honoured mind, body and spirit for women like me. DoraVera was born from that gap.
My ethos is simple: you are the expert on you. The wisdom to heal is already in you, and the journey is to clear what stands in the way of that. I'm still learning that I'm imperfectly perfect, and more than good enough. I'm honoured to walk beside you.
To find out more about me and my wider work, visit hazeljrose.com →
The wisdom to heal is already in you.
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