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Eye Movement Desensitisation and Reprocessing - EMDR |
This is a system that allows a client to process an emotional experience that he or she cannot yet talk about. However, following an EMDR session, the client finds the ability to talk freely about that experience. Most importantly, EMDR can eliminate stress surrounding the traumatic event, allowing new life in the once traumatised and emotionally difficult memory.
In general, you are an excellent candidate for the EMDR technique if you have experienced:
- Difficulty in trusting people
- Fear of being alone
- Lack of motivation
- Anxiety or panic
- Frequent feelings of guilt or shame
- Poor concentration or memory
- Explosive or irrational anger
- Trouble sleeping or nightmares
- Worrying or brooding
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- Poor self-image
- Serious relationship problems
- Stage fright or performance anxiety
- Obsessive or compulsive behaviour
- Chronic feelings of detachment
- Extreme, inexplicable fears
- Bad temper
- Physical or sexual abuse
- A crime or serious accident as victim or witness
- A natural disaster
- A traumatic event
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Who can be helped by EMDR?
EMDR is a remarkable treatment method used to heal the symptoms of trauma and other emotional conditions. EMDR is the most effective and rapid method for healing PTSD (Post Traumatic Stress Disorder) as shown by extensive scientific research studies.
Because EMDR has the power to relieve any type of emotional block or fear, It can also be used to enhance the performance of athletes, actors, musicians, students, public speakers and executives by reducing performance anxiety and stage fright.
Thanks to the on-going success of EMDR therapy for hundreds of thousands of people, it is not difficult to have high expectations for a therapy programme that includes the EMDR technique.
How does EMDR work?
When disturbing experiences happen, they are stored in the brain with all the sights, sounds, thoughts and feelings that accompany them. When a person is very upset, the brain seems to be unable to process the experience as it would normally and so the negative thoughts and feelings of the traumatic event are 'trapped' in the nervous system. Since the brain cannot process these emotions, the experience and/or its accompanying feelings are often suppressed from consciousness. The distress lives on in the nervous system where it causes disturbances in the emotional functioning of the person.
The EMDR technique does two very important things:
- It "unlocks" the negative memories and emotions stored in the nervous system.
- It helps the brain to successfully process the experience.
EMDR puts you in control and helps you stay there!
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