EMDR

EMDR is a cutting-edge way of working with specific issues that can be done over a short time period. 

The large, and growing, research base, and my experience, show that EMDR can bring about dramatically increased quality of life for people over shorter time periods, when this way of working is suitable for them.

I offer short-term blocks of EMDR, usually over a series of 8-10 sessions. The first sessions include developing a therapeutic relationship and resources to feel grounded and calm, the middle sessions are for EMDR processing and the last sessions are for consolidation. I find that it tends to be useful to digest and integrate between sessions of EMDR, yet without too much of a gap between, so I recommend these sessions are done weekly. These can be for children, adolescents, or adults.

These short-term EMDR sessions tend to be more effective when someone has experienced a single-incident trauma or a difficult event that is contained to one period of time. For people who have experienced many linking traumas or over a long period, or a working with a deep-seated difficult self belief, it is usually more effective being part of a longer-term therapeutic journey. We can discuss this further at the consultation stage.