{"id":602,"date":"2018-06-21T12:08:01","date_gmt":"2018-06-21T12:08:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.simplytherapy.co.uk\/?page_id=602"},"modified":"2018-06-21T12:09:03","modified_gmt":"2018-06-21T12:09:03","slug":"emdr-eye-movement-desensitization-and-reprocessing","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.simplytherapy.co.uk\/?page_id=602","title":{"rendered":"EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing)"},"content":{"rendered":"

What is EMDR?<\/strong><\/p>\n

EDMR is a new proven psychotherapy technique used to successfully help people suffering from trauma, anxiety, Depression, Confidence and Self esteem, Post Traumatic Stress, abuse disturbing memories, phobias, panic and other emotional problems. Quick and long-lasting relief for most types of distress can be achieved as a result of this innovative and simplistic therapy.<\/p>\n

\"\"EMDR is a psychotherapy that enables people to heal from the symptoms and emotional distress that are the result of disturbing life experiences.\u00a0 Repeated studies show that by using EMDR therapy people can experience the benefits of psychotherapy that once took years to make a difference. It is widely assumed that severe emotional pain requires a long time to heal.\u00a0 EMDR therapy shows that the mind can in fact heal from psychological trauma much as the body recovers from physical trauma.\u00a0 When you cut your hand, your body works to close the wound.\u00a0 If a foreign object or repeated injury irritates the wound, it festers and causes pain.\u00a0 Once the block is removed, healing resumes.\u00a0 EMDR therapy demonstrates that a similar sequence of events occurs with mental processes.\u00a0 The brain\u2019s information processing system naturally moves toward mental health.\u00a0 If the system is blocked or imbalanced by the impact of a disturbing event, the emotional wound festers and can cause intense suffering.\u00a0 Once the block is removed, healing resumes.\u00a0 Using the detailed protocols and procedures learned in EMDR therapy training sessions, I will help clients activate their natural healing processes.<\/p>\n

Given the worldwide recognition as an effective treatment of trauma, you can easily see how EMDR therapy would be effective in treating the \u201ceveryday\u201d memories that are the reason people have low self-esteem, feelings of powerlessness, and all the myriad problems that bring them in for therapy.<\/p>\n

How does EMDR work?<\/strong><\/p>\n

Studies have shown that when a person is very upset, their brain cannot process information as it does normally. A traumatic memory can become \u2018frozen in time\u2019 and remembering the event causes them to re-experience what they saw, smelt, heard, felt or tasted and be significantly distressing.<\/p>\n

During an EMDR session these emotional experiences that have become trapped in the brain are released through the process of bilateral stimulation, right\/left eye movement, sounds or taps. As such the distressing memories lose their intensity and become more like an ordinary memory and are therefore are not upsetting. The effect of EMDR is thought to be similar to that what occurs naturally during REM (rapid eye movement) sleep when the eyes move from left to right.<\/p>\n

What happens during an EMDR session?<\/strong><\/p>\n

During the session (which will last between 60-90 minutes) I will ask you to recall your traumatic experience and ask you to recall your feelings, memories and negative thoughts. I will then ask you to track the movement of my fingers as they move from left to right, the more intensely you focus the easier it will become for your memory to come to life. These disturbing memories and feelings are exchanged for more loving, peaceful and resolved feelings after processing by the eye movements as the vibrant images arise.<\/p>\n

EMDR is not a form of hypnosis and you will remain awake and in control throughout.<\/p>\n

\"\"EMDR therapy is an eight-phase treatment.\u00a0 Eye movements (or other bilateral stimulation) are used during one part of the session.\u00a0 After I have determined which memory to target first, he asks the client to hold different aspects of that event or thought in mind and to use his eyes to track the therapist\u2019s hand as it moves back and forth across the client\u2019s field of vision.\u00a0 Unlike talk therapy, the insights clients gain in EMDR therapy result not so much from clinician interpretation, but from the client\u2019s own accelerated intellectual and emotional processes.\u00a0 The net effect is that clients conclude EMDR therapy feeling empowered by the very experiences that once debased them.\u00a0 Their wounds have not just closed, they have transformed. As a natural outcome of the EMDR therapeutic process, the clients\u2019 thoughts, feelings and behaviour are all robust indicators of emotional health and resolution\u2014all without speaking in detail or doing homework used in other therapies.<\/p>\n

Treatment Description:<\/strong><\/p>\n

EMDR therapy involves attention to three time periods:\u00a0 the past, present, and future.\u00a0 Focus is given to past disturbing memories and related events.\u00a0 Also, it is given to current situations that cause distress, and to developing the skills and attitudes needed for positive future actions.\u00a0 With EMDR therapy, these items are addressed using an eight-phase treatment approach. Sessions can last 60-90minutes.<\/p>\n

Phase 1:<\/strong>\u00a0 The first phase is a history-taking session(s).<\/p>\n

Phase 2:<\/strong>\u00a0 During the second phase of treatment, I will ensure that the client has several different ways of handling emotional distress.<\/p>\n

Phases 3-6:<\/strong>\u00a0 In phase\u2019s three to six, a target is identified and processed using EMDR therapy procedures.\u00a0 In addition, the client identifies a positive belief.<\/p>\n

Phase 7:<\/strong>\u00a0 In phase seven, closure, I will ask the client to keep a log during the week.<\/p>\n

Phase 8:<\/strong>\u00a0 The next session begins with phase eight.\u00a0 Phase eight consists of examining the progress made thus far.\u00a0 The EMDR treatment processes all related historical events, current incidents that elicit distress, and future events that will require different responses.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

What is EMDR? EDMR is a new proven psychotherapy technique used to successfully help people suffering from trauma, anxiety, Depression, Confidence and Self esteem, Post Traumatic Stress, abuse disturbing memories, phobias, panic and other emotional problems. Quick and long-lasting relief for most types of distress can be achieved as a result of this innovative and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-602","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.simplytherapy.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/602","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.simplytherapy.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.simplytherapy.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.simplytherapy.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.simplytherapy.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=602"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.simplytherapy.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/602\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":607,"href":"https:\/\/www.simplytherapy.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/602\/revisions\/607"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.simplytherapy.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=602"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}