Most people during their life time have had experiences that have been traumatic, painful or negatively emotionally charged. These experiences, have all kinds of problematic responses to past events, and are all part of the rich tapestry of life and are commonly called Trauma, Grief, Guilt, Shame, Phobia… Usually the intensity of the experience fades in time and people are OK.
However other times there are one, two or more memories that just seem to pop up from nowhere or surface unannounced which can be painful, unpleasant and certainly unwanted.
EMDR is a therapeutic approach radically different from any other. It uses guided eye movements to assist you to access recorded information in all its multi-sensory, cognitive and emotional forms. EMDR recruits these resources to the integration and resolution of distressing experiences and their problematic psychological consequences. The impressive efficacy and rapidity of EMDR derives from its ability to help the mind do precisely what it was designed to do: heal itself using its own inner resources.
EMDR does two very important things; “unlocks” the negative memories and emotions stored in the nervous system, and helps the brain successfully process the experience.
There are many reasons why eye movement therapies offer significant breakthroughs, even when other talk-based therapies have failed in the past.
Traumas, for instance, often happen so fast or at such a young age that access to language for memory storage is non-existent or compromised. Thus, talk-based therapies often hit a dead end, but try for years in vain anyway, offering a degree of support but not the needed neuro-physiological processing.
Lynne works with people who have experienced or have witnessed:
- Road traffic accidents
- Rape
- Assaults
- Accidents at work
- Robbery
- Fires
- Crime
- Natural disasters
- Trauma from childbirth or losing a child
- Medical procedures
- Traumatic bereavements
- Workplace bullying
Eye movement therapies are more able to access and restructure the whole memory imprint, regardless of how it was recorded. There are hints of lasting neuro-physiological change. For instance, following trauma a part of the brain called the hippocampus, responsible for laying down new memories, often shrink and becomes less functional.
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The General Hypnotherapy Standards Council (GHSC) and General Hypnotherapy Register (GHR) are the UK’s largest and most prominent organisations within the field of Hypnotherapy and together present an exemplary model for the simultaneous protection of the public and the provision of practitioner credibility and services. The GHSC is responsible for overseeing the criteria for the ongoing registration of individual practitioners within the GHR, all complaints brought by the public against such registered practitioners and for the assessment and accreditation of hypnotherapy training courses which lead to that registration.
