Some experiences leave a mark that talking alone can’t touch.

A moment frozen in time. A fear that lives in the body. A belief that you are not safe, not enough, or somehow to blame.

You may know the past is over, but your body doesn’t always feel that way.

This is where EMDR comes in a therapeutic doorway to unfreezing what still lingers.

What Is EMDR?

Eye Movement Desensitisation and Reprocessing (EMDR) is an integrative, evidence-based therapy that supports the nervous system in reprocessing traumatic or distressing memories.

Rather than retelling your story over and over, EMDR gently engages both hemispheres of the brain often through guided eye movements, tapping, or audio cues, allowing your system to digest what once felt too overwhelming to process.

The result?

Memories lose their emotional charge.

The body begins to soften.

And new, life-affirming beliefs begin to emerge.

How It Works

 

EMDR is grounded in the Adaptive Information Processing (AIP) model, which recognises that trauma isn’t just about what happened it’s about what got stuck.

When something overwhelms our capacity to cope, the brain and body pause.

The experience gets “frozen,” locked away unprocessed and can continue to impact our emotions, behaviours, and relationships.

EMDR gently reactivates these frozen networks, allowing the body-mind to do what it is naturally wired to do: heal.

In sessions, we work together to:

• Access the root of current distress

• Process it safely and slowly using bilateral stimulation

• Release the stuck charge

• Reshape core beliefs (like “I’m not safe” or “It’s my fault”)

• Restore a new sense of self and wholeness

 

What Can EMDR Help With?

 

• Single-event trauma (e.g., accidents, loss, injury)

• Complex and developmental trauma

• Emotional abuse, neglect, or abandonment

• Panic attacks, anxiety, or phobias

• Birth or medical trauma

• Grief, shame, or self-worth struggles

• Flashbacks, nightmares, or hypervigilance

EMDR doesn’t erase the past. It helps you remember it differently without the fear, the overwhelm, or the shame.

 

EMDR With Me

In my practice, I integrate EMDR with:

• Somatic therapy to track body-based responses

• Attachment work to heal relational wounds

• Schema therapy to identify and shift deep-seated patterns

• A trauma-informed, heart-centered presence that honours your pace

Together, we build safety, develop tools for regulation, and create the conditions for profound transformation where old pain is not just talked about, but deeply resolved.

 

The Future of EMDR

EMDR is rapidly expanding across the world as a frontline therapy for trauma. Its applications are growing from complex PTSD and early attachment trauma, to chronic illness, addiction, grief, and beyond.

It’s also being adapted to support:

• First responders

• Survivors of war or displacement

• Young people navigating anxiety or bullying

• Those working through creative or performance blocks

What makes EMDR unique is that it doesn’t ask you to be anything other than who you are. It meets you in the truth of your experience and walks with you as that truth softens, shifts, and finds its resolution.

 

You are not what happened to you.

You are what survived.

You are what is healing.

You are what is remembering how to feel safe again.

If you’re curious about EMDR or wondering whether it’s the right next step, I welcome you to reach out. Healing is possible and you don’t have to do it alone.

 

With love, Sahar Zadah