EMDR Psychotherapy

What is EMDR? 

EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitisation and Reprocessing) therapy is an internationally recognised and well researched therapy that helps you recover from trauma and other distressing life experiences. These may include things like a painful memory, upstting experience, disturbing image, a person who scares you (real or make-believe) or a difficult situation that you've found yourself in. Any of these things can either be from your past, present, or projected in to your future.  EMDR is perhaps best known for being the treatment of PTSD (Post Traumatic Stress Disorder).  

When someone has experienced something that has been traumatic, painful or negatively emotionally charged, quite often the intensity of the experience fades and people are generally ok. There are times, however, when one (or sometimes more than one) memory keeps popping back up and brings with it all that painful, unwanted emotional distress.  This happens when a memory has not been fully processed. 

It is natural to avoid thinking about an experience because it is has been too upsetting, but if it remains unprocessed in the brain, it can be easily 'triggered' by certain images, smells, sounds or even tastes, causing flashbacks and panic attacks. 

This is where EMDR therapy comes in.

Benefits: 

You are likely to experience a significant reduction in distress associated with your traumatic experience, reduced anxiety that can accompany the distress and an improvement in your self-esteem and perception of the past experience. You may also feel a strong sense of relief, and a new feeling of contentment within yourself. 

Please note:

You must be prepared to attend regular sessions, and budget for at least 4-6 sessions. 

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