EMDR & Rewind Trauma Therapy

EMDR & Rewind Trauma Therapy

EMDR

EMDR, or Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing, is a powerful therapeutic approach designed to help individuals process and heal from trauma. If you’ve experienced distressing events that feel unresolved or interfere with your daily life, EMDR could be a life-changing tool.

Unlike traditional talk therapy, EMDR doesn’t require you to talk extensively about your trauma. Instead, it focuses on how your brain stores and processes traumatic memories. Trauma can leave these memories “stuck,” causing emotional pain, anxiety, or unwanted reactions even long after the event. EMDR helps your brain process these memories in a healthy way so they lose their emotional intensity.

The process involves eight structured phases, including identifying specific traumatic memories and engaging in bilateral stimulation, such as guided eye movements or tapping. This stimulation helps your brain integrate the memory, making it less distressing and more manageable. Over time, many people find that the memory no longer holds the same emotional charge—it becomes a story from their past, rather than a present burden.

EMDR is backed by extensive research and is particularly effective for post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), anxiety, depression, and other trauma-related conditions. It’s a collaborative process, where I’ll guide you and help you feel safe and supported throughout your journey.

If you’re ready to take steps toward healing, EMDR offers a compassionate, scientifically-supported path to regain control over your life and emotions.

Rewind Trauma Therapy

Rewind Trauma Therapy is an internationally recognised treatment that may help if you are suffering with PTSD or a phobia.  It is a rapid treatment that can treat single event traumas and simple phobias in as few as 2 to 3 sessions. Multiple traumas may take more sessions. Research suggests that treatment results are long-lasting.

The Rewind is a gentle approach that doesn’t require you to disclose any details about your trauma or phobia. For this reason, it is known as the ‘closure without disclosure’ therapy. Contrary to previous understanding, researchers  have discovered that talking about trauma doesn’t put it behind you. Talking can help you gain acceptance about the reality of your experience and how the trauma or phobia has affected you but it won’t change the involuntary recall that triggers the traumatic response.  The Rewind works by stopping this involuntary recall. Although it’s not fully understood how it does this, the latest thinking suggests that it restructures the traumatic/phobic memory so that it becomes more stable and can be ‘filed’ away properly.  You will still have access to the memory but it will be under your control.

This approach will be particularly beneficial to anyone who works in roles such as the police, military or medical profession who are worried about disclosing sensitive information. It will also suit anyone who is concerned that talking about their traumatic experience(s) will be too distressing or re-traumatising. Indeed, the way treatment is structured, the risk of re-traumatisation is unlikely.

A 2023 randomised controlled trial (considered the gold standard in research) supported the efficacy of the Rewind in treating PTSD symptoms. You can read more about the Rewind at the International Association for Rewind Trauma Therapy (IARTT) website.