EMDR - effective therapy for:

 

• Panic attacks
• General anxiety disorder (GAD)
• Phobias
• Sexual abuse
• Road traffic accident trauma
• Excessive grief
• Depression
• Physical pain
• Addictions
• Fear of public speaking
• Performance anxiety

What is EMDR?

EMDR has been shown to relative in few sessions what other therapies may take years to achieve, if at all.

In order to understand EMDR, one needs to have a relatively clear idea of how trauma can affect the brain. With Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD), the brain fails to successfully process the trauma and it gets stuck in the central nervous system. The body fails to recognize that the person is now safe. Instead it reacts as though danger is current, and this throws the person out of balance on many levels, including emotional and physical.

EMDR is unique because it facilitates 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 to another as a person experiences an EMDR session. The same cannot be said for other forms of counselling.

This is a really important point, because the mainstream and rather outdated approach, especially in the UK, is to use talk-based therapies or drugs with PTSD. These may help for the duration they are given, but soon after they are withdrawn, the brain will loop back into the trauma and the whole cycle with start over again, which can literally lead a person to be suicidal, especially since the general attitude will be that adequate help has already been given.

In order for real healing to take place, there has to be the kind of processing that EMDR can offer.




Is EMDR only good for trauma?

EMDR has many applications but the most documented is trauma. Other areas which have found some success are panic attacks, , anxiety, addictions, dissociative disorders, disturbing memories, stress reduction, complicated grief, physical or sexual abuse, stage fright, public speaking, phobias, phantom limb pain and pain in general. Also, because EMDR effectively reframes memories in a more useful and effective way, it has been found to be of great use to business executives. Actors have also been known to use it as a way to access aspects of themselves that will enhance their performances. These are just a few examples.





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