EMDR Therapy

EMDR sessions tend to work quickly and have positive, long-term effects upon your well-being, helping you to move from emotional distress to a peaceful resolution of the issues or events involved.

These conditions are difficult and time-consuming to treat, and often involve having to share difficult details of the specific trauma. However, EMDR is different in so much as you do not have to discuss the traumatic event or experience in detail if you prefer not to, as the emotions and feelings of the event are what is important.

The technique uses a natural function of the body, rapid eye movement, or REM, as its basis.

The human mind uses REM during sleep time to help it process daily emotional experiences. When trauma is extreme, this process breaks down and REM sleep doesn’t bring the usual relief from distress. This is where EMDR comes in. EMDR is the next step or, you might say, an advanced stage of the REM processing.

Together we will work through ‘safe space’ and ‘container’ exercises in order to allow you to process the emotions at the appropriate time and have control over them rather than them control you. This is both a liberating and life changing experience enabling you to take back control. You will be able to utilise these skills and coping mechanisms every day, whenever you come across stressful situations in the future.

Helping you to help yourself

A safe place to find your balance in a world full of demands