EMDR is a powerful healing method that can relieve many troublesome symptoms
resulting from TRAUMA.  It is a non-hypnosis, non-drug therapeutic technique. The bilateral stimulation of movement, tones or tapping, helps to process the material. It is your own brain doing the healing and you are the one in control.

The validity and reliability of EMDR has been established by rigorous research. There are now nineteen controlled studies into EMDR making it the most thoroughly researched method used in the treatment of trauma, (Details on www.emdr- europe.org and www.emdr.org) and is recommended by the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE) as an effective treatment for PTSD.
Evidence has shown that EMDR can significantly shorten the length of treatment far beyond the scope of being involved in talking therapy alone. When a disturbing event
occurs, it can get locked in the brain with the images, sounds, thoughts, feelings, and body sensations.  EMDR seems to stimulate the information and allows the brain to process the experience.

What can EMDR be used for? Treatment of Post-traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD), Anxiety and panic attacks, Depression, Stress, Sleep problems, Complicated grief and loss, Addictions, Pain relief, phantom limb pain and Self-esteem and performance anxiety.

During EMDR treatment, you will remain in control, fully alert and wide-awake and you can stop the process at any time. Throughout the session, the therapist will support and facilitate your own self-healing and intervene as little as possible.
Reprocessing is usually experienced as something that happens spontaneously, and new connections and insights are felt to arise quite naturally from within. As a result, most people experience EMDR as being a natural and very empowering therapy.