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Trauma Therapy

The word trauma comes from the Greek word for ‘wound.’ When left unresolved, traumatic experiences—particularly those from early life—can continue to affect our thoughts, emotions, and relationships in everyday life.

Working with a therapist trained in trauma can help you make sense of what you’re experiencing in the present. Together, we’ll begin to develop tools to manage current symptoms, gently interrupt old patterns, and gradually create space to reconnect with yourself—the version of you that exists beyond the trauma.

Sensorimotor Psychotherapy

Sensorimotor Psychotherapy is an approach that is used to work with trauma and can be particularly helpful when traditional ‘talk therapy’ has not helped to resolve issues. It integrates somatic awareness with principles from attachment theory, cognitive psychology, and neuroscience

What can Sensorimotor Psychotherapy help with?

Sensorimotor Psychotherapy can help with trauma and attachment-related issues such as:

Anxiety
Having difficulty concentrating due to fear, upsetting thoughts, or unwelcomed physical sensations.
Post-traumatic stress: abuse, attack, accidents, flashbacks, nightmares.
Difficulty enjoying life, feeling hopeful, and experiencing pleasure.
Relationship related wounds: neglect, harsh parenting during childhood, divorce, child-parent separations.
Persistent and regular negative thoughts about one’s ability to achieve, be successful and deserving.
Difficulty maintaining a job, a family, friendships and other relationships.
Feeling detached from one’s self and the world.

EMDR

EMDR is a therapy that is used to help people recover from distressing events and the problems arising from those events such as flashbacks, upsetting thoughts or images, depression or anxiety. Although EMDR was initially developed to treat Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD), EMDR is also beneficial in treating other issues such as depression, anxiety and emotional abuse.

EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitisation and Reprocessing) is a powerful therapeutic approach that helps the brain re-process trauma, painful memories, and other difficult experiences. It works by using eye movements to activate both hemispheres of the brain, allowing your mind and body to integrate what once felt overwhelming.

But before we dive deeper, let’s pause on a question we often hear: what exactly is trauma?

Trauma isn’t the event itself—it’s your mind and body’s struggle to fully process what happened. When something feels too big or too overwhelming, our systems shift into survival mode. The brain and body disconnect just enough to keep us safe from shutting down completely. This is not a sign that something is “wrong” with you—it’s proof that your body’s protective wiring did exactly what it was designed to do.

The challenge often comes after the event. Sometimes, the brain, body, and emotions don’t sync back up. For example, one person may talk about what happened without showing emotion, yet still experience sudden flashbacks, panic, or strong emotional reactions. Why? Because different parts of the system are holding on 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 doesn’t quite know how to “file away” the event as something in the past. Instead, it lingers in the present—showing up as fear, tension, or intrusive memories that feel like the threat is still happening.

That’s where EMDR comes in. Through guided eye movements, EMDR re-engages both sides of the brain while gently revisiting the memory. This process helps the nervous system reprocess the experience and place it where it belongs—in the past. EMDR doesn’t erase memories. Instead, it softens the emotional charge and removes the sense of danger tied to the memory.

Think of it like clearing a traffic jam. Once the block is removed, thoughts, emotions, and sensations can flow freely again. With EMDR, healing often goes beyond known memories—untangling stuck emotions and lifting hidden burdens that may have quietly shaped one’s life for years.