EYE MOVEMVENT DESENSITISATION & REPROCESSING (EMDR THERAPY) SUNSHINE COAST
An extensively researched, effective intervention to help you recover from trauma, and move toward new areas of self-awareness and growth.
WHAT IS EMDR THERAPY?
Eye Movement Desensitisation and Reprocessing (EMDR) therapy is an intervention that helps people to recover from traumatic past experiences. When we have not yet come to terms with an event, it can cause difficulties in the present by distorting our interpretations and intensifying our physiological reactions to more benign experiences in the here and now.
EMDR works to calm the nervous system and make sense of overwhelming experiences by enabling communication between areas of the brain that control our alarm system (fight, flight, freeze), our memory networks, and our high-order cognitive skills.
Just as you would heal from a physical injury, EMDR helps you to activate your own ability to ‘heal’ from your psychological trauma.
While EMDR therapy has gained empirical support as an effective treatment for PTSD, evidence is continuing to accumulate for its clinical efficacy across other mental health conditions, including:
Anxiety, panic attacks, and phobias
Addictions
Dissociative disorders
Eating disorders
Complicated grief reactions
HOW CAN EMDR HELP ME?
EMDR has supported many people around the world to work through trauma and distressing memories. A range of psychological therapies are often incorporated into treatment, including Schema Therapy, Internal Family Systems, mindfulness & DBT, to support stabilisation and readiness for treatment. With your psychologist, EMDR can be used to reduce the vividness of traumatic memories, dial down the distress attached to these events, and safely store traumatic memories in the past.
If you would like to book in for EMDR with one of our psychologists, or find out more about our approach to psychology and counselling, please contact us.
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EMDR RESOURCES
If you would like to learn more about EMDR please view this video or visit the link below.