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EMDR

Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) integrates elements of many effective psychotherapeutic appraoches and training is based on providing practitioners not only the theoretical understanding of how trauma effects the indiviudal but also pracitise in the protocol throughout the three stages of training approved by EMDRIA (Richard has completed the three parts of this training).

"EMDR was found to be an efficacious treatment for PTSD."

 

EMDR is unique, I believe, due to it harnessing new knowledge and understanding of how trauma is stored in the nervous system and the difference between the functions of the right and left hmispheres of the brain.  It could be seen as facilitating the processing of information that has become 'stuck' in the central nervous system. Brain scans have actually captured information transferring from one side of a brain (right and left hemispheres) to another as a person experiences an EMDR session. The same cannot be said for other forms of counselling.

Clients who have suffered for years from anxiety or distressing memories, nightmares, insomnia, abuse or other traumatic events may be helped by EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitization Reprocessing). Research shows that EMDR is  safe and effective and is seen as an approach in the NICE guidlienes as being an approach that may be effective for PTSD.

EMDR does not involve the use of drugs or hypnosis. It is a simple, non-invasive patient-therapist collaboration in which healing can happen effectively. This powerful therapy is highly effective for a wide range of disorders including chronic pain, phobias, depression, panic attacks, eating disorders and poor self-image, stress, worry, stage fright, performance anxiety, recovery from sexual abuse and traumatic incidents.

Many clients who have desribed making slow progress in the past, or who may have not benefited from more traditional therapies say that with EMDR they have finally found something that works for them!