
Megan Wood Therapy
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Evidence-Based Therapy in Chichester
What is CBT?
What is EMDR?
Eye Movement Desensitisation and Reprocessing (EMDR) is a treatment used for helping people to overcome distressing events that have occurred and the impact these have on their everyday lives, such as flashbacks. At times when people feel overwhelmed, their memories can remain unprocessed, which can lead to intense, vivid and distressing re-experiencing of them in the future. EMDR aims to help people reprocess and desensitise the memories, so they are able to be recalled without the associated strong emotions.
EMDR works through alternating left and right stimulation of the brain through eye movements, sounds or taps, which engage the brains information processing systems and enable memories to be processed. EMDR also has a strong evidence base, with both the World Health Organisation (WHO) and the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) recognising its value.


