Now this is a question that comes up a lot in my supervision sessions. Often early on and often when we are just starting to develop an understanding of the client and their difficulties. My supervisees will often ask me “what’s the best EMDR prototcol to use for …. (insert Read more…
I was really surprised to read some research recently that suggested that therapists begin to decline in effectiveness the moment they start practicing therapy post training. Wow, this is a pretty shocking claim and actually quite scary. But let’s have a think about it. We do our standard training in Read more…
I mean, how do you ever really know when you are ready for something? Do you have a plan and work towards that goal (for example Luke Skywalker becoming a Jedi)? Or did it just suddenly happen, you found yourself there and someone telling you you were ready (Katniss Everdeen Read more…
I have a strong memory of sitting in my initial training in EMDR and feeling it was very evangelical (I even wrote that down in my workbook and still have it to remind myself now!). By this I felt that everybody was super enthusiastic about it and it was presented Read more…
Initially when I started doing EMDR online therapy it seemed much more tiring than face to face work. Obviously we are dealing with the pandemic and we’ve got the other stresses of lockdown which might be making us more tired as therapists so that has got to be factored in. Read more…
One of the best webinars I attended was provided by the EMDR Association by Naomi Fisher. If you haven’t seen it, email me and I’ll send you a link (Hannah@drhannahbryan.com) One of the first things Naomi said was to prepare for things to go wrong, this was such helpful words Read more…
I’ve really struggled this week to think about what I wanted to write about in this blog. As we are still in lockdown in the UK and still working online it just does not feel right to go back to my blog post series of the most frequently asked supervision Read more…
We are moving into week 4 of the coronavirus hitting us in the UK and week 3 of the lockdown. I wonder what this week will bring. Things seem to change day by day! Who would have thought 6 months ago that our world would be almost completely online? I Read more…
For most of us we are still continuing to make adjustments as we deal with COVID-19. For me all of my work has moved to online, I’ve stopped going into my office. In my household, my husband is working from home, my children are no longer going to school but Read more…
Again I find myself pausing my planned blog series. I will get back to it at some point I promise but with COVID19 overtaking everything at the moment, it is impossible to even go an hour without thinking about the virus. I have had a funny old week, initially the Read more…