The Synergistic Benefits of EMDR for Individuals with ADHD
Unlocking Clarity by Stimulating Treatment of ADHD Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) is a neurodevelopmental condition characterized by challenges in attention, hyperactivity, and impulsivity. While traditional therapeutic approaches have proven...
Post Traumatic Stress Disorder – PTSD
Post-traumatic stress disorder, commonly known as PTSD, is a condition that affects individuals who have experienced or witnessed a traumatic event. PTSD can result from any type of traumatic event, including but not limited to natural disasters, accidents, violent...
Beating Trauma with EMDR Multi-Sensory Stimulation
Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) is a psychotherapy treatment that was originally designed to alleviate the distress associated with traumatic memories (Shapiro, 1989a, 1989b). Shapiro’s (2001) describes how EMDR therapy facilitates the accessing...
Navigating the Overlapping Similarities Between ADHD and PTSD
The Overlapping Realms Between ADHD and Complex PTSD In the intricate tapestry of mental health, conditions like Complex Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (C-PTSD) and Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) stand as distinct threads, weaving their unique...
Losing Human Contact During the COVID-19 Coronavirus Pandemic
As the COVID-19 Coronavirus heart-breaking death toll rises, and the message of ‘Stay at home, protect the NHS, and save lives’ continues, the World Health Organization (WHO) has warned that the restrictive lockdown measures many countries are taking around the world,...
EMDR Therapy Wherever You Are
Eye movement desensitization and reprocessing (EMDR) is a revolutionary type of psychotherapy, that has fast grown in popularity, particularly for treating post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). However, it isn’t only trauma that is being helped with EMDR. Using your...
What is Your Purpose?
Purpose and Life - from Healing from the Other Side by Dr Tom Barber and Dr Sandra Westland When you think bout purpose, what comes to mind? The thoughts, feelings, and behaviours that people present to therapy, often makes the idea of personal freedom out of...
So What Is Love?
In the beginning! Have you ever heard or said, "I can’t stop thinking about them!" Why can those first few weeks of love become so addictive, and obsessive? Love is one of the most studied, but least understood phenomena. However, there is a body of research looking...
How to Discover What Your Values Are
“The basis of your life: Absolute Freedom. The purpose of your life: Joy. The result of your life: Expansion." ~ Abraham Hicks. What are your values? This is often a hard question to answer! Life is all too easy to live un-reflected upon. So, how do you begin to...
Addiction – Why Don’t You Just Stop It!?
Have you ever wondered why some people can’t stop doing something, even though it’s not good for them? It may be an addiction to smoking, using drugs, excessive drinking, eating or exercising. Have you ever wondered why you can’t change a habit that you really get...
How to Get Through Life, the Existential Way
How do you guide yourself through the process of your life? Do you make yourself up as you go along, inventing your life story as you want it to be … or do you feed your unconscious mind with knowledge, in order to be guided from the wisdom that comes from the...
How to Have Better Relationships
Are you the sum total of your relationships? If I asked you who you were, the first likely answer would be who you are in relation to someone else. So, maybe “I am a mother or father, sister or son.” Then you might tell me something about you, to fill in more detail,...
