In almost 30 years as a therapist I’ve worked with a great many people who have experienced powerful and overwhelming traumatic events.  Trauma is one of my main specialisms as a therapist and I’ve been involved in Critical Incident Debriefing people who’ve been attacked and involved in major public transport incidents.  I’ve worked with survivors of rape and sexual abuse, and people who’ve seen and experienced some terrible things.

Many of these people have needed someone to ‘witness’ their story; to hear their account without flinching or changing the subject.  To tolerate the intolerable.  My previous therapeutic work has tried to help people live with the memories and experiences. 

With Thought Field Therapy I can help people in another way.  I can help you sever the link between the memory and the emotion attached to the memory.  To help the brain assimilate what’s happened and put it where it belongs, in the past.

Many people don’t want to have to discuss in fine detail what has happened to them, and often this can retraumatise the person.  In Thought Field Therapy there is an elegant way to work with the trauma which does not involve lengthy disclosures and recalling of the memories.  We can often eliminate the disturbing feelings, the nightmares and the dissociation within one or two sessions.

What may remain is how to rebuild one’s life, to build trusting relationships with others.  This may require more ongoing regular psychotherapeutic work, but that work can proceed much quicker if the person isn’t still reliving the memories of what’s happened to them.