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I specialize in helping people who are haunted in the present by intrusive memories and flashbacks from past traumatic experiences, which seem to come upon them 'out of the blue'. People can feel they have no control over these memories, their thoughts, and the distress they experience. I help people gain relief from this distress using a method known as EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing) which can take away the emotional sting of the memory allowing it to become emotionally neutral like other experiences that just happened once. EMDR was discovered in the 1980’s by Dr Francine Shapiro a psychologist and Senior Research Fellow at the Mental Health Institute in Palo Alto, USA. Since then the technique has been developed and refined to the point where today it is used by trained therapists around the world who have treated many hundreds of thousands of people who experience psychological distress arising from traumatic experiences. EMDR has been successful in treating a variety of traumatic experiences from severe to mild and ranging from: Sexual abuse and attacks Violence and physical abuse Childhood neglect Road traffic accidents Near death experiences performance and social anxiety panic confidence and self esteem trauma related anxiety issues The EMDR process integrates well with the other psychological approaches I use to provide a seamless and complete treatment for trauma. EMDR uses side to side eye movements or other kinds of bilateral stimulation such as alternate taps on the back of hands to stimulate the brain’s natural information processing system. Usually, people are able to process traumatic experiences in a natural way. Sometimes experiences can be so overwhelming that people may feel frozen like a rabbit in the headlights. When this happens the brain’s processing system becomes overloaded and does not process the memory. This unprocessed memory is capable of causing severe distress now even though the original experience may have happened a long time ago. These memories become stuck in all their sensory intensity and can be relived vividly when triggered by a current event similar to the original experience. EMDR works in a natural way tapping in to the mind and body’s out of awareness ability to heal itself. This is a drug free therapy and way of healing that works. The number of sessions needed varies according to how complex the issues may be. Generally fewer sessions are needed to treat a single traumatic experience, like a road traffic accident, where there is just one memory. EMDR is recommended by NICE (the National Institute for Clinical Excellence in the UK)

I am trained and experienced in working safely, effectively, and in as few sessions as possible, with the following kinds of disturbance:

- Low mood and depression
- Low self esteem and confidence
- Panic
- Anxiety and fear
- Trauma and fear
- PTSD (Post Traumatic Stress Disorder)
- Anger and rage
- Intrusive thoughts
- Obsessions and compulsions
- Relationship issues at home, work & play
- Stress
- Work life balance
- Just being stuck

Feel free to contact me if you have any questions at all about the services that I provide.