EMDR stands for Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing. Disturbing events or memories that may be stored maladaptively can be shifted to adaptive storage in the brain, by the use of bilateral stimulation. How does this happen? By employing bilateral stimulation to the body such as rapid eye movements from left to right or tapping left and right on one’s legs, the stuck memory becomes gradually less intense and triggering. According to research the memory is processed and moved to the adaptive memory network. After EMDR reprocessing sessions, events may become more distant, harder to find, blurry etc. This means that whilst a person may recall what has happened it is no longer disturbing or replays again and again in one’s head. In addition, the negatively stored meaning may transform into more positive meaning (e.g., from “it’s my fault” to “I did the best I could” or from “I’m powerless” to “I now have choices”) changing event from a source of shame or weakness to a source of self worth or strength and efficacy.
To learn more about EMDR:
Check out my podcast here or visit emdr.com
IFS is a transformative modality that conceives every human being as a system of protective and wounded inner parts lead by a core Self. One of the foundational premises of IFS is that the mind is naturally multiple and made up of many parts. Just like members of a family, inner parts are forced from their valuable states into extreme roles within us.
Self is in everyone. It can’t be damaged and it knows how to heal.
IFS is frequently used as an evidence-based psychotherapy, helping people heal by accessing and healing their protective and wounded inner parts.
IFS creates inner and outer connectedness by helping people first access their Self and, from that core, come to understand and heal their parts.
IFS is a non-pathologizing evidence-based psychotherapy. It is also a way of understanding personal and intimate relationships and stepping into life with the 8 Cs: confidence, calm, compassion, courage, creativity, clarity, curiosity, and connectedness..
(This text has been modified from the IFS Institute website. To learn more about IFS:
Check out my article here or visit ifs-institute.com
Somatic therapy, sometimes known as body based therapy, is a therapeutic approach that places importance on what we experience in the mind and the body as well as the connection between the two. “Somatic” itself means “of or relating to the body.”
Whilst talk therapy keeps a person focused on their thoughts and emotions only, somatic therapy guides the client to focus on their underlying physical sensations which are often connected to what is happening in their mind.
To learn more about somatic therapy and the mind body connection check out my articles: Flight or Fright and The Felt Sense
Brainspotting is a brain-based therapy based on the hypothesis that specific eye positions designated as “brainspots” activate and access specific areas of the subcortical brain that allow for the reprocessing and releasing of core neurophysiological reactions to trauma-related and other psychological experiences.
EMDR stands for Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing. Disturbing events or memories that may be stored maladaptively can be shifted to adaptive storage in the brain, by the use of bilateral stimulation. How does this happen? By employing bilateral stimulation to the body such as rapid eye movements from left to right or tapping left and right on one’s legs, the stuck memory becomes gradually less intense and triggering. According to research the memory is processed and moved to the adaptive memory network. After EMDR reprocessing sessions, events may become more distant, harder to find, blurry etc. This means that whilst a person may recall what has happened it is no longer disturbing or replays again and again in one’s head. In addition, the negatively stored meaning may transform into more positive meaning (e.g., from “it’s my fault” to “I did the best I could” or from “I’m powerless” to “I now have choices”) changing event from a source of shame or weakness to a source of self worth or strength and efficacy.
To learn more about EMDR:
Check out my podcast here or visit emdr.com
IFS is a transformative modality that conceives every human being as a system of protective and wounded inner parts lead by a core Self. One of the foundational premises of IFS is that the mind is naturally multiple and made up of many parts. Just like members of a family, inner parts are forced from their valuable states into extreme roles within us.
Self is in everyone. It can’t be damaged and it knows how to heal.
IFS is frequently used as an evidence-based psychotherapy, helping people heal by accessing and healing their protective and wounded inner parts.
IFS creates inner and outer connectedness by helping people first access their Self and, from that core, come to understand and heal their parts.
IFS is a non-pathologizing evidence-based psychotherapy. It is also a way of understanding personal and intimate relationships and stepping into life with the 8 Cs: confidence, calm, compassion, courage, creativity, clarity, curiosity, and connectedness..
(This text has been modified from the IFS Institute website. To learn more about IFS:
Check out my articles here and here or visit ifs-institute.com
Somatic therapy, sometimes known as body based therapy, is a therapeutic approach that places importance on what we experience in the mind and the body as well as the connection between the two. “Somatic” itself means “of or relating to the body.”
Whilst talk therapy keeps a person focused on their thoughts and emotions only, somatic therapy guides the client to focus on their underlying physical sensations which are often connected to what is happening in their mind.
To learn more about somatic therapy and the mind body connection check out my articles: Flight or Fright and The Felt Sense
Brainspotting is a brain-based therapy based on the hypothesis that specific eye positions designated as “brainspots” activate and access specific areas of the subcortical brain that allow for the reprocessing and releasing of core neurophysiological reactions to trauma-related and other psychological experiences.
