What we treat

Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder, or PTSD, is a condition that can develop after experiencing or witnessing a traumatic event. Symptoms can include flashbacks, nightmares, intrusive thoughts, avoidance behaviours, hyperarousal, and other related symptoms. PTSD can be a difficult condition to live with, but EMDR can help individuals recover and move forward.

EMDR is a therapy that was initially developed to treat trauma-related disorders like PTSD. It is the gold standard treatment for PTSD and Trauma in the UK. It works by stimulating both sides of the brain, often through eye movements, while the individual focuses on the traumatic memory. This process can help reduce the emotional intensity of the memory, allowing the individual to process it more effectively.

Anxiety is a normal and often healthy emotion. However, when it becomes excessive, it can interfere with your daily life and cause significant distress. If you are struggling with anxiety, EMDR therapy may be able to help. EMDR has been shown to be effective in the treatment of anxiety disorders, including generalized anxiety disorder (GAD), social anxiety disorder (SAD), and panic disorder.

EMDR therapy can help with anxiety in several ways. It can help your brain to reprocess distressing and unpleasant memories that may be contributing to your anxiety. Through this it facilitates your brain to develop coping skills for managing anxiety. Furthermore, it enables you to change the way you think about yourself and the world around you. Clients often describe how the anxiety attached to individual memories is released but also how this change becomes generalised to other areas of their life that were not specifically targeted with the EMDR.

Depression is a common mental health condition that affects millions of people worldwide. It can lead to feelings of sadness, hopelessness, and helplessness, which can significantly impact an individual's quality of life. EMDR is a psychotherapy approach that was initially developed to treat trauma-related disorders. However, over time, researchers and therapists have discovered that EMDR can also be effective in treating depression.

The therapy works by addressing the underlying emotional and cognitive triggers that cause depression symptoms. Through the reprocessing of negative emotions and beliefs, EMDR can help to reduce the intensity of depression symptoms. It can also help to improve the patient's self-esteem, reduce feelings of guilt and shame, and enhance their ability to cope with stress and other challenges.

Obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) is a debilitating mental health condition that affects millions of people worldwide. OCD is characterized by intrusive thoughts (obsessions) and repetitive behaviours (compulsions) that can significantly impact an individual's quality of life. EMDR has been found to be an effective treatment by addressing the underlying emotional and cognitive triggers that cause OCD symptoms.

During an EMDR session, a therapist will ask the patient to focus on a specific obsession or compulsion associated with their OCD. The therapist will then use bilateral stimulation, such as eye movements, sounds, or taps, to activate both sides of the brain. This process helps to facilitate the reprocessing of negative emotions and beliefs, resulting in the creation of new, positive associations. In turn, causing a reduction in the intensity of the OCD symptoms and enhancing their ability to cope with stress and other challenges.

Eating disorders can be challenging to overcome, but EMDR therapy can be a powerful tool in the recovery process. Eating disorders are serious mental illnesses that affect a person's eating habits and their relationship with food. They can cause significant physical and emotional health problems and can lead to life-threatening conditions. Eating disorders can affect people of all ages, genders, and backgrounds.

EMDR helps individuals process past traumatic experiences and reprocess negative emotions associated with those experiences. Many people with eating disorders have experienced past trauma that has contributed to their disorder. EMDR therapy helps individuals process these past traumatic events and negative emotions, which can help reduce the intensity of negative thoughts and feelings that contribute to the eating disorder, allowing the individual to move forward with a healthier relationship with food and their body.

Addiction can be a challenging and complex condition to treat, but EMDR therapy has shown to be a promising approach for addiction recovery. Addiction is a chronic condition characterized by compulsive drug use or behaviour, despite negative consequences. Many individuals with addictions have experienced past trauma, which may have contributed to the development of their addiction.

EMDR therapy can help these individuals identify and process the underlying trauma, which can reduce the intensity of negative emotions and cravings associated with their addiction. It can also enable the client to become desensitised to triggers and urges associated with the addiction and help them develop healthier coping mechanisms and behaviours that support long-term recovery.

Chronic pain can be a debilitating condition that can affect many aspects of an individual's life, but EMDR therapy can be helpful in the treatment of chronic pain. Chronic pain is pain that lasts for longer than three months and can be caused by a variety of factors, including injury, illness, or nerve damage. Chronic pain can affect any part of the body and can cause physical and emotional distress, which can interfere with daily life.

Chronic pain can be caused or exacerbated by a variety of factors, including past trauma, negative experiences, or irrational beliefs. EMDR therapy can help individuals identify and process the underlying causes of their chronic pain, which can reduce the intensity of negative emotions and help them develop healthier coping mechanisms.

Bereavement is the natural and healthy emotional response to loss. It is a process that can take time and involve a range of emotions, such as sadness, anger, guilt, and loneliness. While everyone grieves differently, some people may find that their grief is more intense or prolonged than they expected. If you are struggling to cope with the loss of a loved one, EMDR therapy may be able to help.

EMDR can help people who are grieving to process the loss of their loved one. EMDR can help to reduce the intensity of the emotional pain associated with grief, and it can also help to improve sleep, concentration, and mood. Although the grieving process will not completely cease, EMDR can enable clients to continue to grieve for their loved one in a healthy way that is manageable, less overwhelming and in way that does not significantly impact on their quality of life.

Relationship problems are a common cause of stress and unhappiness in people's lives. They can be caused by a variety of factors, such as communication problems, trust issues, and differences in values. If you are struggling with relationship problems, EMDR therapy may be able to help.

EMDR can help people who are struggling with relationship problems to process and heal from any traumatic memories that are contributing to their problems. For some clients there have been past relationship traumas that are now affecting their current relationship. EMDR can enable clients to reprocess these past relationship experiences so that these no longer influence their current relationship. EMDR also allows people to learn new ways of communicating and interacting with their partners.