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Fiona Owen Psychotherapy

Locality: Mount Lawley, Western Australia

Phone: +61 409 995 411

Address: 13 alvan street 6050 Mount Lawley, WA, Australia

Website: http://fionaowen.com

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24.01.2022 Before I say anything about EMDR I thought I would just give you the briefest outline about how EMDR is believed to help with trauma memories. What is EMDR? The mind can often heal itself naturally, in the same way as the body does. Much of this natural coping mechanism occurs during sleep, particularly during rapid eye movement (REM) sleep. Francine Shapiro developed Eye Movement Desensitisation and Reprocessing (EMDR) in 1987, utilising this natural process in order to suc...cessfully treat Post-traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD). Since then, EMDR has been used to effectively treat a wide range of mental health problems. What happens when you are traumatised? Most of the time your body routinely manages new information and experiences without you being aware of it. However, when something out of the ordinary occurs and you are traumatised by an overwhelming event (e.g. a car accident) or by being repeatedly subjected to distress (e.g. childhood neglect), your natural coping mechanism can become overloaded. This overloading can result in disturbing experiences remaining frozen in your brain or being "unprocessed". Such unprocessed memories and feelings are stored in the limbic system of your brain in a "raw" and emotional form, rather than in a verbal story mode. This limbic system maintains traumatic memories in an isolated memory network that is associated with emotions and physical sensations, and which are disconnected from the brain’s cortex where we use language to store memories. The limbic system’s traumatic memories can be continually triggered when you experience events similar to the difficult experiences you have been through. Often the memory itself is long forgotten, but the painful feelings such as anxiety, panic, anger or despair are continually triggered in the present. Your ability to live in the present and learn from new experiences can therefore become inhibited. EMDR helps create the connections between your brain’s memory networks, enabling your brain to process the traumatic memory in a very natural way. Adapted from www.thetraumacentre.com See more

23.01.2022 Hello all! Hope the festive season treated you well :) Check out my new blog post on emotional and psychological trauma to gain a better understanding of management and healing of emotions...

17.01.2022 Hi all, hope your week is going well! If you have time this Friday afternoon, take a read of my new article on attachment for insights into how your attachment style may be affecting your life and relationships!

13.01.2022 Hi everyone I thought today I would just share a little bit about my work with EMDR. I have been using EMDR with clients for nearly a year now and have seen some amazing results. This process can be used on single event trauma, like a car accident or on extended trauma experiences. One of my long term clients recently decided she was going to finish therapy at least for now. She reported to me that the EMDR was an important part of recovery for her from years of being disconnected from herself and from her loved ones. I am so delighted that I have done the training and am now part of the national association EMDRAA and am able to offer this approach to people who are suffering. I really recommend training, if you are a therapist or looking for a therapist who offers EMDR if you are living with trauma.

01.01.2022 Trauma is at the heart of most ( if not all) mental health issues. Often people look at the outward issues that are a result of trauma, such as anger, depression, anxiety, obsessive compulsive behaviours and addictions.Treatment of these outward issues will be made more effective when the underlying trauma can be processed. Eye movement desensitisation reprogramming ( EMDR) has been proven through many studies to be a useful process to assist with the treatment of trauma. In ...order to not have the trauma made worse during the exposure of the image of the trauma clients need to be able to self support during the process of the reprogramming . The Emotional Freedom Technique, often called tapping used in conjunction with EMDR is a good combination as tapping has been proven to help reduce anxiety and emotional pain. I use both techniques and am finding some really good outcomes for trauma recovery. See more