How does Ros treat trauma? What is EMDR?

For clients who wish to work on trauma, we will use the most evidence-informed trauma therapy to date, EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing). EMDR is similar to free association + mindfulness + distraction, so to speak.

In EMDR, you do NOT have to relive your trauma, nor tell Ros all the details. With Ros, you will choose a representative image of the trauma, note what that image ‘says about you’, and come up with a preferred belief about you in that context. Then Ros distracts your, asking you to visually follow her hand back and forth, stopping from time to time to check in on what feelings/ thoughts/ sensations have popped up. This is your brain, healing itself and reprocessing the meaning of the traumatic event, until there is no longer any emotional charge or disturbance attached to the event. EMDR does not make you forget or forgive. It is not hypnotherapy. It is you, making connections about an event your brain couldn’t bring itself to process without therapeutic distraction and support.