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What is EMDR?

Eye Movement Desensitization & Reprocessing.
In 1987 Francie Shapiro (founder) began to study the way mind can heal itself naturally through bilateral stimulation, such as rapid eye movements. During 20 years of research, EMDR was found to be a scientifically proven psychotherapy in treating:
  • PTSD
  • Addictions
  • Depression
  • Stress
  • Phobias
  • Sleep Problems
  • Anxiety & Panic Attacks
  • Self-Esteem & Performance Anxiety
  • Complicated Grief
  • Pain Relief, Phantom Limb Pain
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Trauma

What happens when you are traumatised?

Definition

Trauma is when a negative and highly disturbing chain of events, occur in a person’s life which results in highly charged negative emotions, cognitions and bodily sensations.

Origin

Memories of these disturbing events are stored implicitly and explicitly by the brain and the nerves system.

Effects

Depending on its level of disturbance, these memories and sensations can alter one’s belief system, personality, information processing and their nerves system.

Childhood

If these events occur during childhood, it most likely impacts the brain development, which may result in addiction, Mental Illnesses or interpersonal difficulties later in life.

EMDR Therapy

In 1987 Francie Shapiro (founder) began to study the way mind can heal itself naturally through bilateral stimulation, such as rapid eye movements. During 20 years of research, EMDR (Eye Movement and Desensitisation and Reprocessing Therapy) was found to be a scientifically proven psychotherapy in treating:

  • PTSD
  • Sleep Problems
  • Self-Esteem
  • Stress
  • Depression
  • Phantom Limb Pain
  • Phobias
  • Performance Anxiety
  • Addictions
  • Complicated Grief
  • Pain Relief
  • Anxiety & Panic Attacks

How It Works?

EMDR changes the way that the brain processes past information and experiences.
Once an issue has been fully resolved, it is unlikely to re-emerge in the future.

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What EMDR therapist does?

What EMDR therapist does?

EMDR Therapist recognizes that your natural coping mechanism may have been impacted and been overloaded as a result of your trauma. This overloading can result in disturbing experiences remaining “frozen” in your brain and the nerves system, making you re-live the negative experiences over and over again for many years, as if they were happening today!

These memories and disturbances are often referred to as “unprocessed memories” which are stored in the non-declarative part of your memory within the limbic system. These are also known as "raw" memories. This part of the limbic system maintains traumatic memories in an isolated memory network that is associated with disturbing emotions and physical sensations, and which are disconnected from the brain’s cortex where we use language to store memories.

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What happens in a EMDR session?

What happens in a EMDR session?

In an EMDR session, the therapist helps you process these raw memories and move them to their rightful place within the hippocampus, using Eye Movements, tapping or sound stimulation.

This way, whilst you will still remember the memory, you will no longer have the same body sensations, or feelings of anxiety, panic, anger or despair attached to those memories.

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How will the process go?

How will the process go?

During the processing phase of EDMR Therapy, you will be asked specific questions about a particular disturbing memory. Eye movements, similar to those experienced during REM sleep, will be recreated simply by asking you to watch the therapist's finger moving backwards and forwards across your visual field.

Sometimes sound stimulation or tapping will be used at the same time, or in the place of eye movements. Stimulation will last for a short while and then stop. You will then be asked to report back on the experiences you have had during each of these sets of eye movements.

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What is the result?

What is the result?

Experiences during a session may include changes in thoughts, images and feelings. With repeated sets of eye movements, the memory tends to change in such a way that it loses its painful intensity and simply becomes a neutral memory of an event in the past.

Other associated memories may also heal at the same time. This linking of related memories can lead to a dramatic and rapid improvement in many aspects of your life.

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Therapeutic Approaches

A therapeutic approach is the theory by which an allied mental health professional frames how they view human relationships and the issues that occur for people.

EMDR Therapy

Parts Work

Using Arts

Sensorimotor
Psychotherapy

Emotion Regulation
and Sand Play

Minfulness

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How Do I Know If EMDR Is Right For Me?

  • EMDR is an innovative clinical treatment which has successfully helped over a million individuals.
  • EMDR Therapy is one of the most well researched trauma treatment models.*
  • In 2010 the Australian Psychological Society (APS) noted it as a Level 1 treatment for PTSD; the highest rating that can be applied to a specific therapeutic approach.
  • The World Health Organisation endorses EMDR for the treatment of PTSD.
  • EMDR is listed on Medicare Australia’s list of approved Focussed Psychological Strategies.

However, it is not appropriate for everyone.

For EMDR to be effective, you must recognize that you will have to be open to reliving some of those disturbing experiences in sessions, in order for the memory and its associated body sensations to be targeted for processing. As such, you must be willing to experience those strong feelings and disturbing thoughts and sensations for a short period of time during the session.

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Counselling Services

comprehensive counselling and therapy to enhance your psychological well-being in the following areas:

PTSD & Trauma

Phobias

Depression

Anxiety

Accepting the Self

Grief & Loss

Self Esteem &
Self Confidence

Interpersonal
Support

Domestic Violence

Drug & Alcohol
Counselling

Cognitive
Distortions

and more...

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How Long Does Treatment Take?

EMDR Therapy has been called an ‘accelerated emotional processing method’ because it has been clinically proven to produce results within a shorter time than many other traditional therapeutic approaches.

Sessions are usually anything from 60 to 90 minutes. EMDR can be a brief focused treatment (around 10 to 16 sessions) or part of a longer psychotherapy treatment.

Will I Have Control Over My Body & Mind?

Yes!

EMDR utilises the natural healing ability of your body. As such, you will remain in control, fully alert and wide-awake during the course of treatment. This is not a form of hypnosis and you can stop the process at any time.

Throughout the session, the therapist will support and facilitate your own self-healing and intervenes as little as possible.

Reprocessing is usually experienced as something that happens spontaneously, and new connections and insights are felt to arise quite naturally from within.

As a result, most people experience EMDR as being a natural and very empowering therapy.

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How Can I Trust EMDR?

  • EMDR is an innovative clinical treatment which has successfully helped over a million individuals.
  • EMDR Therapy is one of the most well researched trauma treatment models.*
  • In 2010 the Australian Psychological Society (APS) noted it as a Level 1 treatment for PTSD; the highest rating that can be applied to a specific therapeutic approach.
  • The World Health Organisation endorses EMDR for the treatment of PTSD.
  • EMDR is listed on Medicare Australia’s list of approved Focussed Psychological Strategies.
  • Since it was introduced by its founder Francine Shapiro in 1987 it has undergone approximately 30 randomised controlled studies and has been clinically proven to be effective for the treatment of PTSD and processing Traumatic Memories.

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