Confession time… For many years I misunderstood the whole point of completing a phase 3 assessment with my clients. I saw it as a tick box exercise. I thought that I had to get it perfectly right before I could proceed to the really important work of processing the trauma Read more…
If you want to think how you can get the most out of your EMDR supervision sessions, please read ahead. When I think about me receiving supervision there are 2 main things that I want from it. I want to feel contained, supported, that it is safe to be vulnerable Read more…
In this blog post I will look at what an abreaction is. I will explore how it fits into our work as therapists and how we can work with that abreaction. If that sounds like it may be interesting to you, please do read on. What is an abreaction? Abreaction Read more…
This question gets discussed time and time again in my supervision sessions. It’s something that causes a lot of confusion. Many therapists believe that we have to go back to the clients earliest difficult memory. If you are interested in thinking more about this then please do read on. It Read more…
I’s hard to spot those moments in our therapy sessions when we might what to think about using a cognitive interweave. These are used to help our clients move on with their processing. So in this blog we think about when to use interweaves and why we might use them. Read more…
Phase 5 in the standard treatment protocol is looking at installing the positive cognition. So after the trauma memory has been processed and worked through, we can proceed to focus on the most positive thing the person can say about themselves when they think of the trauma they experienced. In Read more…
In my experience in both supervising and seeing many clients SUDs usually can come down to a 0. It’s a question that comes up a lot in supervision. What I find is that as therapists we often move on too soon to our Phase 5 installation of the positive cognition Read more…
Have you completed your EMDR training, loved the training and know that you want to develop further in the model? Maybe you did the training a while back and you are just starting to think about how you move towards accreditation. Maybe you just feel completely overwhelmed by not knowing Read more…
In EMDR we talk a lot about different channels of association but what do we actually mean by this? Read on if you want to find out more about how to spot channels in processing and in particular how to spot when we might be at the end of one! Read more…
Did you finish your EMDR training and think, right I’m good to go, let’s get putting this knowledge into practice. Or maybe you completed yet still felt confused about certain parts of the model. There’s a lot to learn in a short amount of time! Maybe it actually felt simple Read more…