Eye Movement Desensitisation and Reprocessing (EMDR) is a leading, evidence-based therapy for trauma, anxiety, and PTSD. In an intensive format, sessions are condensed into focused, extended blocks—helping you process deep material efficiently and safely.
Instead of spreading therapy across months, intensives harness momentum and continuity for rapid, meaningful change in a structured, supportive environment.
Practical guidance, research notes, and updates from the team.
In this article, I explain how EMDR supervision helps you apply the protocol with real clients. That covers building case formulations based on the AIP model, working through processing that stalls, and choosing the right interweave. I also cover supervision towards EMDR Europe accreditation, and why it stays useful once you’re an experienced practitioner.
In this article we explore a 2025 randomised trial testing whether a very short course of EMDR, delivered in the first weeks after a traumatic birth, can prevent lasting trauma symptoms.
In this article we explore how often car crashes lead to lasting trauma symptoms, how many people recover on their own, and what the research says about EMDR for those who do not.
In this article we explore a randomised trial testing whether trauma-focused EMDR can help people living with bipolar disorder, a group usually kept well away from trauma therapy.
In this article we explore a study comparing intensive trauma treatment in older and younger adults, and question the assumption that processing old memories is a younger person's business.
In this article we explore a 2025 meta-analysis of EMDR for substance use disorders, including the finding that did not go the way supporters might have hoped.
In this article we explore a clinical trial testing whether a short course of EMDR can help parents caring for a child with a life-limiting illness.
In this article we explore recent trials examining whether trauma-focused EMDR can safely help people with borderline personality disorder, a group often excluded from this kind of therapy.
In this article we explore what research says about using EMDR to treat PTSD in military veterans, a group that has historically been harder to help than most.
In this article we explore the leading scientific explanation for EMDR's most puzzling feature: why moving your eyes from side to side seems to help the brain process distressing memories.
In this article we explore a randomised controlled trial that tested a group version of EMDR with Syrian refugees, in one of the most challenging settings imaginable.
In this article we discuss a published case study that explores whether EMDR, a therapy originally developed to treat trauma, might offer benefit to people living with chronic fatigue syndrome.
In this article, we explore why trauma anniversaries and significant dates can intensify symptoms, and why EMDR treatment planning sometimes includes booster sessions or preparatory work around particular times of year.
In this article, we explore why EMDR is increasingly discussed in relation to moral injury, particularly in healthcare workers and other frontline roles, where the dominant wound may be guilt, shame, or betrayal rather than straightforward fear.
In this article, we explore a more specific use of EMDR: chronic pain presentations in which pain is closely tied to trauma, threat, or persistent nervous-system sensitisation, and where treatment may need to address more than physical symptoms alone.
In this article, we explore how adapted group EMDR formats are used with shared or community-level trauma, and why the value of these approaches may lie not only in symptom reduction but also in reducing isolation, increasing structure, and restoring a sense of belonging.
In this article, we explore how EMDR may be adapted for early relational wounds, longstanding attachment patterns, and preverbal distress, where the clinical picture is often shaped less by one obvious trauma and more by repeated experiences of emotional absence, misattunement, insecurity, or shame.
In this article, we explore how EMDR is increasingly used not only for PTSD, but for pressure, anticipatory anxiety, and high-stakes situations in which old failure memories or threat responses interfere with performance.
In this article, we explore how EMDR is often planned around wider memory networks rather than isolated events, and why current thinking about memory reconsolidation has made target selection, sequencing, and “unlocking” key nodes in a trauma history more clinically important.
In this article, we explore how EMDR is adapted for clients who dissociate, shut down, or become overwhelmed easily, and why the clinical priority is often stabilisation rather than pushing quickly into trauma processing.
In this article, we explore what makes virtual EMDR clinically viable, including privacy, safety planning, pacing, and why online delivery is not simply in-person EMDR over video.
EMDR didn’t begin as a trend or a brand — it began with a psychologist noticing a strange shift in her own mind during a walk in 1987. Francine Shapiro’s story is a reminder that what makes EMDR effective isn’t just eye movements, but protocol, pacing, and proper training.
A lot of people say “I tried EMDR and it didn’t work.” Often what they received wasn’t EMDR in the full, paced, safety-first sense. Here’s what actually changes when you work with an accredited practitioner — especially for complex trauma, shutdown, and dissociation.
For many people, trauma isn’t just a memory — it’s tension, numbness, agitation, and a nervous system stuck on high alert. Here’s how slow, grounding breathwork can be carefully integrated with EMDR to support safer, smoother processing.
Dissociation is a common nervous system response to stress and overwhelm — not just a sign of “severe trauma”. Here’s how it can show up in adults and young people, and how EMDR can help.
UK medical bodies are increasingly concerned about how constant screen use and harmful online content are affecting children and teenagers — with rising anxiety, sleep problems, low mood and emotional dysregulation. A trauma-informed perspective on what this means and how EMDR can help.
Considering EMDR in London? This guide explains what EMDR looks like in practice, what a good assessment includes, how pacing works, and what to look for when choosing a therapist.
Trauma language is everywhere — sometimes helpfully, sometimes carelessly. A grounded look at what the cultural critique gets right, and why trauma-informed therapy isn’t the real problem.
