Eye Movement Desensitisation and Reprocessing (EMDR) and attachment-informed EMDR (ai-EMDR)

I am an accredited EMDR practitioner (adults) which means that I have demonstrated competence in the practice of EMDR under the supervision of an EMDR consultant.

EMDR is an evidence-based integrative psychotherapy for a range of psychological and relational problems. EMDR is underpinned by the idea that psychological problems are rooted in traumatic and/or adverse life experiences which have not been fully processed. EMDR helps to link current presenting problems to their historical roots and to process the core experiences which were not processed at the time of the original event(s). This leads to resolution of the psychological problems in a person’s current life. 

Attachment-informed EMDR (ai-EMDR) brings a person’s attachment story more clearly into the therapy. At the heart of this approach is the understanding that most repeating problems that people experience in the present have their roots in the early-life experiences with primary caregivers in childhood. In particular, the focus of ai-EMDR is to blend the structure of the standard EMDR protocol with identifying and repairing stories of attachment trauma which underpin a person’s difficulties.