The H.E.A.L. Trust operates cooperatively with other community-based agencies and service providers to deliver a range of psycho-educative and therapeutic programmes that are designed to effect lasting change through group work and one-to-one counselling.  The combination of parenting education, psycho-education, group therapy and personal counselling help men, women and teenagers to achieve:

• Individual healing, resulting from resolution of emotional pain addictions and destructive behaviour.                                            
   
• Family restoration as negative attitudes are addressed and new ways of relating to others develops.
   
• Care-giving competency and improved child-care as parents learn positive parenting skills.
   
• Safety for children as violence and abuse towards children and partners is eliminated.
   
• Self-control through conflict resolution skills and increased problem-solving ability.
   
• Self confidence and hope for the future.

The H.E.A.L. Trust is an accronym that stands for: 

Hope. Educate. Affirm. Live well.

 The purpose of The H.E.A.L Trust is to:

•  Offer programmes to the community that enable participants to address issues and move towards non-violent, safe and compassionate living
   
• Provide education and support to help people find peaceful resolution to life's difficulties and challenges
   
• Create awareness of the causes and effects of violence
   
• Strengthen the links between individuals and other social service agencies

The H.E.A. L. Trust Mission is to "relieve suffering by working with people who are looking for emotional health and want to change harmful patterns of behaviour into healthy ways of relating."

The H.E.A.L. Trust  was established at the beginning of 2007 to further  work begun by Lorraine Sievers some 8 years earler.  Lorraine's design and development of parenting programmes began in 1999 and the group therapy programmes from 2002.  

The programmes are regularly presented at Dayspring Care Centre in New Lynn, Auckland and by the Men and Family Centre in both Helensville and Orewa. 

Realising the need to extend the scope of the work, the H.E.A.L Trust was established to explore avenues to take the programmes to a wide range of community and social agencies and thereby allow the programmes to be more accessible to more members of the community.