Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) is a mental health condition triggered by experiencing or witnessing a terrifying event. While it's often associated with military veterans, PTSD can affect anyone who has gone through intense trauma. For early detection and effective treatment, it is crucial to understand...
EMDR therapy is a type of psychotherapy treatment used to alleviate the stress associated with traumatic memories. It is structured to encourage patients to briefly focus on traumatic memories while simultaneously experiencing bilateral stimulation (typically eye movement). It involves 8 phases of treatment and when...
How To Support Your Employees’ Mental Health It is a safe bet that the workplace is a difficult place to be when employees are having a bad day. But maybe it is time for that to change. So much of our lives are already tied to...
What is Rewind Therapy? Rewind therapy (RT) is a technique that originated from NLP and is known as a visual/ kinaesthetic dissociation approach to trauma therapy. It was founded and developed by Dr. David Muss in the early 90s. Since then, it is now widely used as...
We grieve for all different types of reasons, all of which are valid. It can include divorce, moving, pet loss, death, prolonged illness, financial changes, changing relationships, death, miscarriage, trauma and more. Self-Care Ideas For Grievers Any way it comes, it's hard to deal with at first...
We’ve all experienced fear at some point in our lives. It is one of the most basic and natural human emotions. Fear happens when we sense danger and our brain instantly reacts, causing an activation of the nervous system and physical responses such as increased heart...
Healing from trauma is a marathon, not a sprint. But, similar to a marathon, it requires proper training to equip you with the right tools to heal. There are many different techniques for trauma counselling and methods for helping individuals heal from trauma, we’re going...
What is emotional and psychological trauma? Psychological and emotional trauma can leave an individual struggling with upsetting emotions, memories and anxiety. It can also make you feel numb, disconnected and unable to trust other people. This type of trauma is the result of extraordinarily stressful events...
As mental health organisations ‘Time to Change’ and ‘Mind’ both say, one in four people experiences a mental health illness in any given year. How prevalent it is as an issue for us all is put into stark terms by Time to Change who said: "We probably...
Many people experience feelings of anger, sadness, fear, hurt, guilt, regret, remorse or other negative emotions which can prevent them from having true happiness and peace in their lives. Within my practice, I use a variety of techniques to work through and beyond these feelings,...
