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For service personnel who are serving or retired, who are presenting symptoms of Post Traumatic Stress. All therapists offering their services through the PTSDhelp web site provide their professional services at no more than £40.00 for an individual treatment session for a minimum of 6 sessions. Read More....
PTSDhelp a web site dedicated to providing affordable alternative and complementary health care, treatment and advice for the service men and women of the UK, serving or retired who have already given so much.
EMDR is an acronym for 'Eye Movement Desensitisation and Reprocessing'
E M D R is a powerful psychological treatment method that was developed by an American clinical psychologist, Dr Francine Shapiro, in the 1980s. As a Senior Research Fellow at the Mental Research Institute (in Palo Alto, USA), she published the first research data to support the benefits of the therapy in the 1989.
Since then a wealth of research has been conducted demonstrating its benefits in treating psychological trauma arising from experiences as diverse as war related experiences, childhood sexual and/or physical abuse or neglect, natural disaster, assault, surgical trauma, road traffic accidents and workplace accidents. Since its original development, EMDR is also increasingly used to help individuals with other issues and performance anxiety. EMDR has been found to be of benefit to children as well as adults.
EMDR is a complex and powerful therapy. Therapists always have a background in mental
health before undertaking training in EMDR. You are strongly recommended to only
consult legitimate clinicians who have undergone a bona-
