What Is EMDR?
EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitisation and Reprocessing) is a psychotherapy process that helps those experiencing emotional overwhelm, physical or mental trauma, helping them recover and find well-being. EMDR can assist with flashbacks (whether visual or emotional), anxiety, depression, feelings of shame, memories of assault, accidents and phobias, as well as being the standard treatment for PTSD.
Recommended by the NHS and WHO (World Health Organisation) as the treatment for trauma, EMDR is conducted in a therapeutic setting with BACP recognised psychotherapist, Angela Jullings. EMDR can help you understand the cause of your emotional reaction and the behaviours surrounding them. Sometimes a person may have attended therapy or counselling elsewhere and gained many insights, even making changes they wish to make but there is still a physical feeling or emotion that the person cannot seem to "shift". That may be an involuntary reaction to a situation or stress, as if the behaviour and reaction is conditioned at an unconscious level. Some clients may not wish to go into too much detail around their trauma or perhaps don't have any any recollection of why they might feel or react in a certain way to triggers or situations and the EMDR process allows Angela and you to work content free.
The process involves a series of eye-movements along with bilateral sounds and physical movement. This helps your brain and body process the trauma or memory at an unconscious level. As with rapid eye movement (REM) in sleep, with EMDR your brain is processing events that disturbed you, so that you feel you can move on and feel differently about what's happened to you, so that the trauma feels less overwhelming, less dominant and less significant. Just like sleep and REM, the process of EMDR kickstarts your ability to naturally heal and recover.
What is Bilateral Stimulation?
Bilateral stimulation is the main component of EMDR. The word bilateral means 'relating to the right and left sides of the body'. In the case of EMDR, bilateral refers to the left and right brain as well as left and right parts of the body. The main bilateral stimulation in EMDR comes from eye-movements. The eye-movements activate both sides of the brain similar to when we sleep and dream with REM (rapid eye-movement), where the eyes move back and forth rapidly. Additional bilateral stimulations come from the auditory sense (sounds in the left and right ears) and the physical/tactile sense (taps to the left and right side of the body). The stimulation (moving the eyes, hearing gentle tone and gentle tapping on the body) promotes the interaction between left and right brain hemispheres.
As an evidence-based form of psychotherapy, EMDR is recognised by the British Associations for Counselling and Psychotherapy (BACP) which Angela is a member of.
Contact Angela via message or call her on 07736 480 376.
Recommended by the NHS and WHO (World Health Organisation) as the treatment for trauma, EMDR is conducted in a therapeutic setting with BACP recognised psychotherapist, Angela Jullings. EMDR can help you understand the cause of your emotional reaction and the behaviours surrounding them. Sometimes a person may have attended therapy or counselling elsewhere and gained many insights, even making changes they wish to make but there is still a physical feeling or emotion that the person cannot seem to "shift". That may be an involuntary reaction to a situation or stress, as if the behaviour and reaction is conditioned at an unconscious level. Some clients may not wish to go into too much detail around their trauma or perhaps don't have any any recollection of why they might feel or react in a certain way to triggers or situations and the EMDR process allows Angela and you to work content free.
The process involves a series of eye-movements along with bilateral sounds and physical movement. This helps your brain and body process the trauma or memory at an unconscious level. As with rapid eye movement (REM) in sleep, with EMDR your brain is processing events that disturbed you, so that you feel you can move on and feel differently about what's happened to you, so that the trauma feels less overwhelming, less dominant and less significant. Just like sleep and REM, the process of EMDR kickstarts your ability to naturally heal and recover.
What is Bilateral Stimulation?
Bilateral stimulation is the main component of EMDR. The word bilateral means 'relating to the right and left sides of the body'. In the case of EMDR, bilateral refers to the left and right brain as well as left and right parts of the body. The main bilateral stimulation in EMDR comes from eye-movements. The eye-movements activate both sides of the brain similar to when we sleep and dream with REM (rapid eye-movement), where the eyes move back and forth rapidly. Additional bilateral stimulations come from the auditory sense (sounds in the left and right ears) and the physical/tactile sense (taps to the left and right side of the body). The stimulation (moving the eyes, hearing gentle tone and gentle tapping on the body) promotes the interaction between left and right brain hemispheres.
As an evidence-based form of psychotherapy, EMDR is recognised by the British Associations for Counselling and Psychotherapy (BACP) which Angela is a member of.
Contact Angela via message or call her on 07736 480 376.