Trauma and EMDR
For what happened, and for what it still does, in JLT. Whether EMDR is the right approach for you is something the first assessment answers rather than assumes.
What to expect
How it tends to start
In short
Trauma work has a reputation for being relentless. This is trauma-informed work: what happens next is agreed between you rather than sprung.
- Who it's for
- Adults and teenagers
- Session
- 50 minutes
- Where
- The clinic in JLT
- Languages
- English, Arabic, Hindi, Urdu
- Approaches
- EMDR, Trauma-informed, CBT, and more
A free 15-minute call
Informal, and with a licensed psychologist. Three or four broad questions about what has been going on — enough to point you at the right person, not enough to need preparing for.
An assessment, then an approach
An initial clinical assessment decides which approach fits, and whether EMDR is one of them. EMDR is used by clinicians specifically trained in it, not by everyone.
At a pace that is set, not assumed
What gets approached, and when, is agreed between you. Nothing here requires you to tell the whole story on the first day to prove it counts.
What people bring to it
- Memories that arrive uninvited
- PTSD and its symptoms
- Grief and loss
- Anxiety, and avoiding what sets it off
- The weight of something that happened a long time ago
Who you’d be sitting with
Therapy starts with finding the right therapist. Our team cover a range of therapeutic approaches.
Now showing Dr Christian Perrin, Chartered Psychologist | Founder & Director
Questions people ask
The ones that come up most often before a first appointment.
Eye Movement Desensitisation and Reprocessing: a structured way of working with traumatic memory. It is used where an assessment says it fits, by clinicians trained specifically in it.
That is a common place to start from. What matters is what it is still doing to you now, not whether it would qualify as bad enough on somebody else's list.
Reaching out is the hardest part
Please complete the form so we can best assist you — tell us as much or as little as you’d like. The usual next step is a free 15-minute call with one of the psychologists. What you write stays between you and us.