It’s probably fair to say that most of us EMDR therapists spend much of our time doing Phase 4 desensitisation work in our therapy sessions. We are always taught that we should not move on to Phase 5 installation of the positive cognition until the SUDs are at a 0. Read more…
Historically EMDR has been a treatment that is used to treat trauma. Especially when a client has specific trauma symptoms like flashbacks, nightmares, intrusive thoughts. However case conceptualisation in EMDR can help us widen how we can use EMDR. As EMDR has developed, the evidence base has grown. There is 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. But we need to remember that this is when Read more…
The most frequently asked EMDR Supervision questions – Part 3 Before COVID 19 I was writing a 5 part blog series looking at the questions that were asked the most in EMDR supervision. For the past 6 weeks, I have talked in my blog about the challenges and the gains 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…