I trained in EMDR back in 2005. I really can’t remember there being much covered about case conceptualisation in EMDR. It’s something that I now have constantly in the back of my head when I am working with my clients. Like my approach to a lot of things, I really Read more…
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 have many discovery calls with therapists thinking about EMDR supervision. Most of the time people want the 1-1 option (I offer both group and individual sessions). However through discussion during those calls, people often change their mind and decide to opt for group supervision. There are many benefits of Read more…
It can often feel difficult in a session with clients to think on our feet of how to help when clients get blocked with their processing. If you want to find out a bit more about different things you can try to unblock the processing then please do read on. Read more…
At the time of writing this post, September 2020 we are still living with restrictions due to Covid 19. Local lockdown’s are popping up all over the UK. It feels difficult to have to deal with this level of uncertainty. Many therapists and clients are preferring to do online work. Read more…
Anyone else find it just so hard when starting off on our EMDR journey to just stay out the way of the EMDR processing? 🙋♀️ I am generally fine with it now but it wasn’t always the case and there are still the odd moments when I ‘forget’ and find Read more…
Wow here we are in the last week of June 2020, for me that marks 6 months of my blog. It was New Years Eve 2019, it had been a year that I had never experienced and this day was a good time to reflect. I can’t really recall whether Read more…
I have been on such a journey these last few months, out of which the supervision I am offering is evolving. In November 2019, I left my NHS post, a post that I had been in for 17 years. There are many things I want to write about this time Read more…
The EMDR Association did an amazing job and provided what was planned as an in-person conference virtually this weekend. I honestly think they did amazing to face all those technological challenges and just get in there, they definitely took the leap. It reminded me of the leap we all had 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…