emdr

EMDR allows us to access our innate drive towards equilibrium and healing, allowing the nervous system to re-wire through neuroplasticity. We identify and then transform the underlying disturbance, reconsolidating it in adaptive form. 

In this way, creative and performance blocks are gently but effectively addressed and the individual released from an unhelpful cycle of behavioral responses.​

Through a dual attention to present safety and past disturbance, with the use of Bilateral Stimulation - (not necessarily the Eye Movements from which EMDR originally takes its name) – we target the negative memory networks and how the emotional pain is held in the body, desensitise, and change our negative core beliefs into something more adaptive to the present situation.

EMDR can be incredibly effective in just a few sessions and is widely endorsed worldwide for a number of applications.

An explanation of the eight phase protocol of EMDR and its evidence base can be found in an article written by its originator and developer, Francine Shapiro

EMDR can be used for a wide range of difficulties including:​

• PTSD

• C-PTSD

• anxiety

• depression

• complicated grief

• addictive behaviours

• eating disorders

• relationship issues

• panic disorders

• OCD

• phobias

• stress

• feelings of shame

• low self esteem

• people pleasing defences

• narcissistic defences

• chronic pain

• medically unexplained symptoms (MUS)

• emotional dysregulation

• performance anxiety

• post-partum depression

• disconnection from self

• procrastination

• COVID related issues