Therapies
I have over 17 years’ experience working as a psychological therapist.
I work with people from all walks of life, cultures and faith systems. I support clients with depression, anxiety, panic attacks, bereavements, divorce & separation, work-life balance, stress, health conditions, PTSD, Complex PTSD, childhood abuse, neglect, low self worth and loss of confidence.
Counselling Psychotherapy
Talking to a trained professional therapist can be very beneficial. Therapy can help you to become more aware of how you see the world and other people. Psychotherapy & Counselling can involve looking back through your life at key life events, relationships & core beliefs with the view to a deeper, more conscious understanding of yourself and your behaviours and interactions with the world and people around you. We would decide on your focus/goals and work towards them using strategies and techniques to build for example resilience, emotional regulation and connections.
I usually use both the terms counselling and psychotherapy to describe deep, emotional work.
Attachment Informed EMDR
We are forming attachments from very early life. We need a lot of support, love, care and protection to survive and thrive and form loving relationships and friendships in adulthood. Attachment theory suggests that difficulties in childhood such as neglect, sexual/physical/emotional abuse, can have lasting impacts on how we develop and relate to others. It may also have an affect on our nervous systems -we may feel on hyper-alert, anxious or emotional numb or dysregulated. Attachment Informed EMDR can support healing these early traumas. EMDR builds inner resources before reprocessing difficult childhood wounds. It can involve going back to your inner child and helping them to know that time has passed and they are safe now. This is gentle work done over time and involves guided eye &/or hand tapping or hand movements.
EMDR for Recent Traumatic Events
EMDR can support you to recover from a recent trauma such as an accident, disaster, sudden bereavement, medical intervention, child-birth, assault etc.
In this process we break the trauma down into small chunks to help you to process it and reconsolidate it so that it feels like a memory and it is in its proper place.
Or, if the recent trauma is highly emotionally charged we use another technique called the Flash Technique where you put the incident aside and we desensitise whilst it is not in your full awareness.
Clients often report that the incident is further away and feels like a memory, without the emotional charge.
This involves guided eye &/or hand tapping or hand movements.
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EMDR & Intensive EMDR
Eye movement desensitisation & reprocessing is a well research treatment for trauma. It is recommended as a treatment by the NHS for PTSD.
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EMDR is structured into 8 phases and involves guided eye &/or hand tapping or hand movements.
Appointments can be weekly, or intensive: several sessions in one day or in one week.
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It is used to help people recover from distressing life events & the symptoms these events have caused, such as flashbacks, upsetting thoughts or images, depression or anxiety, worry, low mood and overwhelming emotions or difficulty gaining emotional regulation. It is also used to process phobias, complex bereavements, nightmares, chronic health conditions/pain, life transitions.
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