trauma therapy

My Christmas break has begun. I finished work at lunchtime on Friday and attended a great Christmas concert on Saturday night, some Carols, some oldies and some classic pop songs, accompanied by a string quartet, acoustic guitars and saxophone....it really got me in the Christmas spirit, so much so come Monday I was already wondering what day it is! Not everyone has the same fondness for Christmas as I do. I know that only too well from my therapy clinic. For some, Christmas

I have just logged on to finish a blog I had started writing last week...the blog was a long time coming, not because it was difficult to write but because work has been very busy and I've also had some family health issues to deal with which knocked me sideways. Those 'nice to do' jobs (like my blog) were pushed way down my list of things to do. Anyway here I am logging on to complete the post I started only to find that it hadn't saved. That is very annoying. I remember I h

The majority of people who come to see me have experienced a trauma in their life, many would not label it as such. A previous blog (...

A bit delayed but I'm going to reflect on the EMDR conference that was in York on 15th and 16th March. I was in two minds whether to give...

I started the year with a chest infection, I struggled to sleep at night, I couldn't leave the house without struggling to breathe, I...

Having just posted my last blog I came across this on LinkedIn....I don't think I need to say anymore and just let you view...

A client once said to me that doing EMDR was like a mist lifting. The mist was the belief that she was to blame for the traumas she had...

Eye Movement Desensitisation and Reprocessing therapy is not easy. I have some clients who are struggling at the moment. Trauma is like a...

I am always so humbled to receive a thank you gift from a client. I understand that their life has (hopefully) changed for the better and...

I sometimes get asked 'when are we going to start the actual therapy?'. It is really important that before we embark on your trauma...

Therapy can feel like an uphill struggle, or rather a mountain to climb. Like a real mountain, in therapy there are harder parts and...

I am very lucky that where I live is surrounded by many examples of safe places that my clients use. For those of you that do not know a...

Saturday 6th September 1997. This was the day that the world stopped and watched the funeral of the 'People's Princess'. That was the day...

I am sometimes in awe of the amazingness of my clients. Being able to tell a relative stranger of some of the most difficult events in...