About EMDR Therapy
Manage current stress, process the past, and embrace future growth
What is EMDR?
EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitisation and Reprocessing) is a comprehensive psychotherapy designed to help your brain process distressing memories and negative experiences.
Rather than relying only on talking, EMDR helps you to connect physical sensations with beliefs, feelings, and memories, unlocking your nervous system’s natural capacity to heal and resolve emotional distress.
EMDR is an evidence-based therapy recognised internationally. It’s recognised and recommended by the NHS, the National Institute for Clinical Excellence (NICE), and the World Health Organisation (WHO).
What can EMDR help with?
EMDR can be used effectively to help with the following:
The impacts of trauma including PTSD & CPTSD
Impacts of other negative experiences
Phobias and future fears
Anxiety
Low self-esteem
Grief
What to expect during EMDR therapy with me.
EMDR is very different to traditional talk therapy. It’s much more interactive and focused. EMDR’s all about resolving the root causes of what bothers us in the present. And when we do that, present symptoms tend to reduce.
Therapy involves getting to know you, your experiences, what you want to focus on, and creating a plan tailored to your needs.
I help you to feel safe, supported, and grounded during the therapy process, while addressing your questions or concerns about the approach.
Together, we would work to identify what you’d like to process, along with any negative beliefs, emotions and physical sensations linked to these experiences.
A major part of EMDR therapy is activating your brain’s natural ability to process information. To do this (and this is the slightly weird bit!) I ask you to focus on your experience while moving your eyes, tapping, or using sensory and auditory equipment.
These side-to-side movements are known as alternate bilateral stimulation (another example is the butterfly hug pictured above), and it’s thought that they activate the same processing which occurs naturally during REM sleep.
But EMDR is NOT hypnosis as you remain awake and aware throughout. There’s no need to be frightened. I guide you through the process, and you’re in control so can stop at any point.
I consistently review your progress, addressing any remaining distress, and continually working toward your healing and growth.
These videos explain how EMDR:
Is an effective therapy for processing difficult experiences and emotions.
Helps you to process experiences while staying in the present.
Is a gentler way of working with traumatic experiences that doesn’t need you to describe them in detail.