Anxiety issues, panic disorder, phobias. Recurrent depression and low self esteem
post-traumatic stress disorder (ptsd) and dissociative disorders (including did)
complicated grief and loss related issues
many other emotional issues that do not fit into anyone diagnostic categories. My main therapeutic modality is emdr (eye movement desensitisation reprocessing) and i have been using it since 2002. I am trained in internal family systems and use ifs to provide a framework to enhance safety and effectiveness of emdr especially for complex ptsd clients.
I am an emdr training facilitator and host trauma trainings nationwide in this and related topic. I also provide clinical supervision in emdr for those trained in it.
Eye movement desensitization and reprocessing (emdr) is a type of therapy used to treat the symptoms of trauma. When we experience traumatic events the thoughts, feelings and memories we have about those events can get stuck. It can be hard to move on from them. The aim of emdr is to help the brain to process distressing memories. This reduces their influence and allows patients to develop ways to more effectively get on with their lives. Eye movement desensitization and reprocessing is suitable for children and adults. It is usually offered alongside other forms of therapy. Find out more about this therapy.
Emdr therapy – eye movement desensitization and reprocessing, is recommended as a safe trauma therapy by nice, (national institute of clinical excellence). It allows the person to access their experiences whilst stimulating the brain into a dream-like state, whilst awake and fully in control. During dreaming, we receive messages from our unconscious state when there is something unprocessed by our conscious mind. It may be the ‘stuckness’ or ‘block’ that limits our ability to move on from the trauma. By bilaterally stimulating the brain, we can access these un-processed thoughts and experiences, acknowledge, store them in the memory, where we can access the experience in a healthier way and move on.
Narrative Exposure Therapy (NET)
1department of microbiology and immunology, geisel school of medicine at dartmouth, lebanon, nh, usa
2foundation for human enrichment, boulder, co, usa
here we present a theory of human trauma and chronic stress, based on the practice of somatic experiencing® (se), a form of trauma therapy that emphasizes guiding the client's attention to interoceptive, kinesthetic, and proprioceptive experience.
Se™ claims that this style of inner attention, in addition to the use of kinesthetic and interoceptive imagery, can lead to the resolution of symptoms resulting from chronic and traumatic stress. This is accomplished through the completion of thwarted, biologically based, self-protective and defensive responses, and the discharge and regulation of excess autonomic arousal.
Our trauma therapy is rooted in the practices of post-induction therapy (pit). This therapy was pioneered by pia mellody , a senior clinical advisor at the meadows in wickenburg, arizona. Drawing on her own experiences, mellody realised that the trauma treatments available in the 1970s did not recognise how seemingly irrational behaviours may actually be symptoms of trauma. So, mellody based post-induction therapy on the fact that victims of trauma carry emotional baggage with them. If your childhood trauma is left unresolved, negative emotions can follow you into your adult life. These overwhelming feelings might be: guilt self-hatred constantly battling with these upsetting feelings be very damaging to your self-esteem, lifestyle and perception of reality.