EMDR

Eye Movement Desensitisation Reprocessing therapy

I utilise Eye Movement Desensitisation Reprocessing (EMDR) therapy as an evidence based and highly successful psychotherapy treatment. It will help you to process and recover from traumatic past experiences that are affecting your mental health and wellbeing in the present.

In my therapy practice I draw on EMDR to help you re-process the negative emotions, beliefs, images and body sensations associated with your traumatic memories that seem to be “stuck” or leave you feeling stuck in past sensations brought into the present. With EMDR therapy, I will be able to support you with a wide range of mental health difficulties including anxiety, depression, addictions, behavioural difficulties, relationship issues.

I use EMDR in my therapy practice as it is a way of kickstarting your natural healing and recovery process after your trauma. As your therapist I will be walking alongside you as you heal from the inside.

With EMDR, the change in perspective comes from within and the transformative changes can be remarkable in how you will feel; from feelings of terror or shame to calmness and empowerment.

I encourage the EMDR approach where I feel it to be useful as it tackles such a wide range of presenting issues and has longevity in its positive outcomes as we also look at present and future triggers and offer therapy preventatively.

EMDR therapy allows you to not feel “stuck” in the emotions, thoughts or feelings of the past if present stimuli “triggers” them. By using bi-lateral stimulation such as eye movements, tapping or alternating sounds, the traumatic memories can be focused upon and then re-processed and stored adaptively away in your memory. The past painful memories then don’t impact the present as there is a reduction in the vividness and emotions associated with the trauma memories.

I am a member of BACP and abide by its Code of Ethics (2016). I attend regular supervision to ensure my counselling work is both effective and ethical. I also undergo training and development in various areas in order to hone my counselling skills.