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EMDR Therapy
Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing
Discover Emotional Freedom, Restore balance & Reclaim your life.
Are you finding it difficult to move past the lingering effects of trauma, anxiety, or chronic stress? Whether your issues stem from childhood trauma and abuse or you have more recent incidents, these issues can be deeply held in your nervous system, then get triggered over and over, affecting your overall quality of life, relationships, and daily functioning.
I am a skilled EMDR Therapist, offering a client-centred, compassionate and somatic-based online EMDR Therapy for trauma and PTSD. I can help you reduce emotional reactivity and distress and access felt-sense healing to resolve trauma symptoms, build more affirming beliefs and self-compassion and regain control over your well-being.
Safe, natural and effective method for rapidly relieving distress
Online EMDR therapy is a well-researched therapeutic approach that accesses our inherent ability to work through and heal from triggering past experiences that may be re-emerging and interrupting our daily lives and relationships.
Eye Movement Desensitization Reprocessing therapy involves guided eye movements (and sometimes sounds or tapping across the body) as a gentle and simple way to help individuals process distress.
The origins of EMDR come from the idea that we process emotional and mental material during the REM stage in sleep. During REM sleep our eyes flutter back and forth naturally. It is believed that this helps us process difficulties and experiences.
In EMDR therapy, we access this natural mechanism in a safe, supportive therapeutic relationship to intentionally bring forth
reprocessing, and program in useful resources that help you feel more at ease, peaceful with enhanced mental clarity.
Whether your distress is due to a current struggle or rooted in trauma memories, EMDR can help you resolve your symptoms quicker and more efficiently than conventional talk therapy.
What issues does online EMDR therapy treat?
There are a wide range of issues that EMDR can effectively help you resolve, such as stress patterns, anxiety and other nervous system struggles, relationship challenges, depressed mood and issues with PTSD and complex PTSD symptoms:
Healing Developmental Trauma
Adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) can create patterns of shutting down, disconnection, chronic shame, anxiety patterns, negative self view and body image, chronic health problems, substance misuse and difficulties in managing self-care, healthy relationship with food and maintaining healthy relationships. EMDR works to help individuals shift the negative effects of childhood neglect, abuse, chronic invalidation by accessing the emotions, body sensations, limiting beliefs and accessing the brains adaptive processing system to resolve distressing emotions, bring new learning, building trust in self and others and restore a healthy relationship with self.
EMDR for PTSD from Medical Trauma and Accidents
EMDR is proven effective in resolving the symptoms of post-traumatic stress (PTSD) due to accidents, falls and having undergone medical procedures. EMDR is effective in resolving the trauma activation and emotional distress left from recent events as well as events that happened in the past but have been lingering and getting re-triggered. EMDR helps you feel resolution, re-engage in activities or things being avoided, rebuild a sense of safety, get you life back on track doing the things you love
Recovery from Physical or Sexual Assault
EMDR provides a safe space to process physical and/or sexual assault trauma by helping you reprocess distressing memories or ‘memory slivers’, without getting overwhelmed by them, so we can reduce the emotional charge. As you work through feelings of fear and other emotions and process the activation, EMDR helps you feel relief by letting go of toxic shame and guilt, reclaim a healthy narrative and rebuild a feeling of safety, relationship trust, self resilience, so you can see a more hopeful future.
Shifting of Negative Beliefs and Self-Limiting patterns
EMDR therapy is based on the idea that “the past is present,” indicating that our current emotions and behaviours are often shaped by previous experiences, especially negative ones. For instance, current feelings of self-consciousness may arise from similar past events. EMDR therapy is designed to target and eliminate these harmful self-beliefs and helps individuals reclaim their sense of self and move forward in a healthier way.
Relief from Fears and Phobias
EMDR is highly effective in treating phobias, with substantial research supporting its use. It is often a struggle to understand how a phobia came to be or to link current symptoms to past experiences. Some phobias may not be tied to a traumatic incident but instead are learnt fears from caregivers. EMDR treats phobias by understanding the root cause of the phobia network in the mind and then resolving the issue at the source.
Depression and Chronic Shut-Down Relief
Mental wellness involves feeling vitality and connected to the full range of emotions, including difficult feelings such as grief and anger, as well as positive ones like playfulness and joy. Feeling shut down, disengaged and struggling with low mood can be indicators of a chronic hypoarousal pattern and may be a cause of your depressed mood. EMDR helps you reawaken emotions and other parts of your experience that may be numbed out as a coping strategy against anxiety, trauma and/or as a learnt pattern from family or cultural systems. EMDR helps by gently guiding you towards your full aliveness, feeling your suppressed emotions, processing experiences and accessing the positive feelings that can be hidden along with everything else so you can feel like life has colour again.
Resolve Relationship & Attachment Issues
EMDR therapy can effectively address relationship issues by helping individuals process emotional pain from past experiences that impact current dynamics. It facilitates healing from past traumas, allowing for healthier relationship patterns. By targeting negative beliefs about oneself or others, EMDR promotes more positive interactions and enhances communication skills. Clients often learn to regulate their emotions better, reducing conflicts and increasing overall satisfaction in relationships. Additionally, as they heal, individuals may develop greater empathy for their partners, fostering deeper connections. Overall, EMDR supports individuals in creating more fulfilling and resilient relationships by addressing underlying emotional challenges.
Social & Performance Anxiety
EMDR therapy is effective for social and performance anxiety by helping individuals process and reframe negative beliefs tied to past experiences. It allows clients to confront past failures or criticisms, reducing their emotional impact. By targeting self-doubt and negative thoughts like “I will fail,” or "I am not good enough", EMDR fosters healthier, empowering beliefs. Additionally, it alleviates physical symptoms of anxiety, such as rapid heartbeat, enabling greater ease during performances or social experiences. By integrating positive memories of success, clients can boost their self-confidence and resilience. Ultimately, EMDR helps clear mental blocks, enhancing focus and presence, equipping individuals with the tools to manage anxiety effectively in various performance situations.
Disordered Eating & Body Image Issues
EMDR therapy effectively addresses disordered eating and body image issues by helping individuals process the emotional and psychological factors behind these challenges. It confronts past traumas and negative experiences that contribute to unhealthy eating patterns. By targeting harmful beliefs about oneself and body image, EMDR promotes more positive and realistic perceptions. The therapy also reduces emotional triggers that lead to disordered eating behaviours and enhances emotional regulation, helping clients manage their feelings without turning to food. Ultimately, EMDR fosters greater self-acceptance and body appreciation, supporting individuals in cultivating a healthier relationship with food and their bodies.
How do I know if EMDR is the right therapy for me?
EMDR is a good treatment option for those who know or suspect there are traumatic experiences, or relational wounding experiences in the past, that keep re-emerging in your day to day life.
Online EMDR therapy is also good for those who feel they have been working on a particular issues for some time but feel like other methods of therapy have not been adequately resolving your issue or symptoms.
EMDR is a good option is you are looking for rapid relief from
disturbances that may be coming up when you are triggered by current relational experiences or challenging events.
As EMDR treatment uses a Phased approach, it is a good choice for those who need to start with stabilization by calming the nervous system and build missing resources so you can feel more resilient and in control of emotions and decisions.
As a skilled EMDR therapist and EMDR for Trauma specialist, I will work alongside you to make sure you are well supported in the treatment, assess your goals, and what stage you are at, and together help you feel the relief you are longing for.
What are the benefits of EMDR?
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Significant reduction in PTSD symptoms including anxiety, panic and depression.
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Research indicates EMDR significantly reduces intense emotions and distress around memories/incidents and helps you feel more emotional peace.
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EMDR activates the brain's natural adaptive processing system, helping you access more insight, self-compassion and new affirming beliefs.
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Reconnect with Your Body - feel more safe and connected to yourself and embodied. Improved ability to connect in relationships.
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Balanced Nervous System - get relief form chronic stress and hyperarousal (anxiety). Feel more stability, inner calm and let your body find rest leading to greater health. Feel more freedom to enjoy activities.
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Recover from Toxic Shame and Build Self-Compassion - EMDR helps you process your experiences in a healthy way so you stop blaming and judging yourself.
Ready To Begin?
Feel free to book online or reach out with any questions you may have. Book online below or Contact me today and I will be in touch within two business days.
I offer a free 20min online meet and greet to give you a chance to meet and go over any questions.
I look forward to meeting you.