Specialist area
EMDR and Sensorimotor therapy
Trauma isn’t just something that happened in the past. It’s what remains when the mind and body haven’t been able to fully process an experience, leaving parts of you still responding as though it’s ongoing.
You might understand what happened. You may have talked it through, made sense of it, even felt “fine” on the surface. And yet the reactions persist – in your body, your emotions, your relationships.
I offer trauma therapy using EMDR and Sensorimotor Psychotherapy, approaches that work directly with the underlying processes that keep trauma in place. Rather than relying on insight alone, this work supports the brain and nervous system to reprocess what hasn’t yet been resolved, so the past can begin to feel like the past again.
The work is collaborative, paced carefully, and doesn’t require you to relive everything in order to move forward.
What trauma therapy involves
Many people I work with have already tried talking about their trauma. Sometimes people can tell the story clearly and have a lot of understanding about what happened and why it affected them. But the feelings, the physical responses, the way it shows up in relationships – those haven’t shifted.
That’s because trauma is held in the body and nervous system, not just in memory or narrative. Talking about it helps, but it often isn’t enough on its own. The approaches I use work directly with what’s happening beneath the surface.
We go at your pace. Nothing is forced or rushed.
How I work with trauma
There is no ‘one size fits all’ timeline for trauma. Depending on what you need, we might draw on a few different, proven approaches.
Two distinct pathways — both grounded in neuroscience, both focused on lasting change.
Trauma therapy and PTSD
Trauma isn’t the event itself. It’s what happens when the mind and body don’t quite finish processing what occurred. The experience gets stuck — showing up in the present as though the past is still happening.
This is very workable. And it doesn’t require you to relive everything to move forward.
What trauma therapy involves
Many people I work with have already tried talking about their trauma. Sometimes they can tell the story clearly and have a lot of understanding about what happened and why it affected them. But the feelings, the physical responses, the way it shows up in relationships — those haven’t shifted.
That’s because trauma is held in the body and nervous system, not just in memory or narrative. Talking about it helps, but it often isn’t enough on its own. The approaches I use work directly with what’s happening beneath the surface and we go at your pace throughout. Nothing is forced or rushed.
The approaches I draw on
Two distinct pathways — both grounded in neuroscience, both focused on lasting change
reprocessing the past so it stays there
EMDR
Eye Movement Desensitisation and Reprocessing is one of the most extensively researched treatments for trauma and PTSD. It works by helping the brain reprocess distressing memories so they lose their emotional charge and feel like something in the past rather than something still happening now.
Part of why trauma can be so persistent is that different parts of the system hold it in different ways. The left brain remembers the story. The right brain stores the emotions. The body keeps the felt experience. Without integration, the brain struggles to file the event away as something that’s over so it lingers in the present instead, showing up as fear, tension, or intrusive memories.
EMDR works directly with this. Through guided eye movements, it re-engages both sides of the brain while gently revisiting the memory – helping the nervous system reprocess the experience and place it where it belongs: in the past. Think of it like clearing a traffic jam. Once the block is removed, thoughts, emotions, and sensations can move freely again.
EMDR doesn’t require you to talk through every detail of what happened, and it doesn’t erase memories. Most people find it less exposing than they expect, and often more effective than years of talking alone.
trauma lives in the body – so does healing
Sensorimotor Psychotherapy
Sensorimotor Psychotherapy works with the body’s role in trauma. When something overwhelming happens, the nervous system responds — and those responses can become patterns that persist long after the event itself. Tension, hypervigilance, numbness, the urge to flee or freeze: these are bodily experiences, not just psychological ones.
This approach integrates body awareness with principles from attachment theory and neuroscience, helping you work with what’s happening physically as well as emotionally. It can be particularly useful where other therapy hasn’t quite reached the root of things.
What this work can help with
PTSD and complex PTSD
Childhood and developmental trauma
Flashbacks and intrusive memories
Anxiety and hypervigilance
Emotional numbness or disconnection
Relational trauma and attachment wounds
Trauma that previous therapy hasn’t shifted
A sense of being stuck or unable to move forward
“Trauma is not what happens to you. It’s what happens inside you as a result of what happened to you.”
Gabor Maté
Ready to take the first step?
If this sounds like the kind of work you’ve been looking for, get in touch. We’ll start with a consultation so you can get a sense of how I work and whether it feels right for you.