EMDR – Eye Movement desensitisation and reprocessing
The technique helps people who have experienced trauma, recent or historic and can be a real relief from PTSD – post traumatic stress. This can be as a result of abuse, domestic violence, assault, road traffic accidents or traumatic bereavement.
In fact any traumatic memory can be reprocessed using this technique. It has distinct protocols designed to bring down the cognition of an incident and stop flashbacks and panic due to the original memory.
Stages in EMDR consist of
- Taking a history from the client
- Installing of a safe place in case the therapy causes unacceptable distress
- Resourcing the client to help them have the resilience to connect with distressing memories
- Identifying the different memories that may need reprocessing
- Adaptive Information processing
- Bringing down the original distress and striving for a new belief
- Checking that no new strands of traumatic memories remain.
- Scanning the body to check there is no further distress manifesting
- Writing a future template.
It really isn’t as complicated as it sounds and with Maggy you are in the hands of an experienced trained EMDR practitioner. It just involves following hand movements with your eyes and noticing what comes up. It is not hypnosis and you are in full control at al times.
If you want to know more look at the EMDR UK website which gives further details, or contact Maggy.
For those who are experiencing stress because of the Covid-19 pandemic, below is a presentation on trauma and it’s effects on the mind and body. Thanks to Andrew Miller at Breathing Space for recording my trauma talk, which I presented at his Strive and Thrive meeting in early October 2020.
