Emdr therapy
You’ve gone to therapy, probably more than once. You’ve sat across from someone, told your story, cried, made sense of it, maybe even felt better for a while, but then the same thing happens again. You react the same, find yourself in the same relationship with a different face. The same you, doing the thing you swore you wouldn’t do again.
You’re still experiencing flashbacks, nightmares, anxiety and panic attacks – you feel like it will never end.
It’s not because you haven’t tried hard enough, you are and you have. It’s because talking can only reach so far. The part of you that’s still stuck isn’t living in your thoughts — it’s living in your body. And your body doesn’t speak in words.
EMDR works differently. It doesn’t ask you to retell the story. It works with where the experience actually lives — in your nervous system, in your reactions, in the beliefs you have about yourself that no amount of insight has been able to touch.
This is for people who are done talking about it and ready to actually shift it.
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Key Benefits
- Memories that overwhelm you start to lose their emotional reactions
- The beliefs you carried about yourself (I’m too much, I’m broken, It’s my fault), they shift
- Supports healing from childhood, sexual, relational, and complex trauma (CPTSD and PTSD)
- Helps shift long-held negative beliefs about ourselves
- Can reduce symptoms such as anxiety, dissociation, hypervigilance, and emotional numbness
- Stop reacting on autopilot and have more choice in how you respond
- Sleep improves, the constant chatter at night quietens
- Your body starts to feel safer, less braced and on edge
- Allows trauma to be processed without needing to relive or retell everything in detail.
What is Emdr?
EMDR is an evidence-based trauma therapy that helps the brain and nervous system process experiences that were overwhelming at the time they occurred.
Trauma memories are often stored differently to ordinary memories, fragmented, sensory-based, and disconnected from a sense of time. This is why something in the present (a smell, a tone of voice, a look) can suddenly trigger fear, shutdown, or panic, even when you know you’re safe now.
EMDR helps the brain make sense of these experiences so they no longer intrude on your present-day life.
How trauma affects the brain and nervous system
When something overwhelming happens (especially in childhood or within our important relationships) the brain’s survival systems take over. Instead of fully processing the experience, the memory can remain stuck, carrying the same emotions, body sensations, and beliefs that were present at the time.
Which is why something happens today and your reaction feels way bigger than the situation. Why a look, a tone of voice, a smell can send you somewhere you didn’t mean to go. Your nervous system isn’t overreacting. It’s reacting to then, not now. It just doesn’t know the difference yet.
That’s what EMDR work with:
- The times you shut down completely and can’t explain why
- Snapping or spiralling before you’ve even had time to think
- Saying yes when every part of you wants to say no
- Going through the motions but feeling nothing
- The shame that shows up out of nowhere and won’t budge
- Your body freezing when someone touches you even if you want it
- Flinching at things other people don’t notice
- Needing to be in control of everything because the alternative is unbearable
- The feeling that something is wrong with you, even when you cannot name what it is
- Nightmares, flashbacks, panic attacks, anxiety, and addictions
How Emdr works
EMDR works with these survival responses by holding aspects of a memory (thoughts, emotions, body sensations) while using bilateral stimulation, such as eye movements, tapping, or other sensory input.
This process supports the brain to reprocess the memory, allowing it to move from a stuck, survival-based state into a more integrated and settled one.
Over time, people can notice:
- memories feel more distant or neutral
- emotional reaction reduces
- the body responds with less intensity
- negative beliefs (such as “I’m not safe” or “There’s something wrong with me”) begin to shift.
EMDR is offered as part of a broader trauma-informed approach, which include:
- EMDR (8-phase protocol, adapted for complex trauma)
- Parts work to support protector and younger parts
- Nervous system regulation and stabilisation
- Body-based awareness to support safety and integration
- Relational support and preparation before reprocessing
Sessions are paced carefully, with resourcing, grounding, and choice built in, always.
Who this is for
EMDR therapy may be helpful if you’re experiencing:
- Childhood trauma or developmental trauma
- Sexual trauma or assault
- PTSD or Complex PTSD
- Trauma responses in relationships or intimacy
- Ongoing anxiety, panic, or hypervigilance
- Dissociation, shutdown, or emotional numbness
- Long-held negative beliefs about yourself
- Trauma-related sexual difficulties (where no medical cause is present)
- Single-incident trauma or cumulative life stress.
- Addictions
EMDR can also support ADHD and autistic clients with trauma processing and self-acceptance, when delivered in a neuro-affirming way.
A final note
This work doesn’t erase what happened. It doesn’t minimise it or ask you to forgive anything. It just helps your nervous system finally understand that it’s over. That you made it. And that you don’t have to keep living like you didn’t.
When you’re ready, we’re here.
Resources
You can learn more about EMDR through recognised professional bodies via the Resources page.
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