EMDR: Change the Software in Your Mind - Fast!
★★★★★ Google Review 2024: PTSD Treatment for Veteran - EMDR and NLP
'I saw Ghita for EMDR and NLP over 6 sessions and I was amazed at the impact it left. Her welcoming nature and expertise allowed me to get the most out of the experience and surfaced underlying issues that I didn’t realise were there. I would definitely recommend Ghita for EMDR or NLP and I’ll return if I ever need it again.' - Charlie Hawken (Labrador)
What is EMDR? EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitisation and Reprocessing) is a psychological treatment that enables people to heal from the symptoms of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), panic attacks, depression and severe anxiety.
What Kind of Problems Can EMDR Treat?
✔️ Anxiety, panic attack and phobias
✔️ Depression
✔️ Eating disorders
✔️ Grief and loss
✔️ Bad Memories
✔️ Pain/ Anger
✔️ Performance anxiety
✔️ Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)
✔️ Sexual assault
✔️ Sleep disturbance
✔️ Substance abuse and addiction
✔️ Violence and abuse
World Health Recommended:
Who Invented it?
In 1987, psychologist Francine Shapiro took a walk in the park. While walking, she happened to notice something interesting: While moving her eyes rapidly, from side to side, while remembering past traumatic events, it seemed to make them less upsetting.
Shapiro began experimenting with this. She found that others had a similar experience. Somehow by moving their eyes while thinking about a past trauma made it a little easier. Consequently, Shapiro eventually developed her discoveries into eye movement desensitization and reprocessing (EMDR) therapy.
What is Trauma?
Trauma can be thought of as a negative event or happening in our lives which is outside of our normal experience in everyday living. It can be a big 'T' trauma, like a car accident or a small 'T' trauma, like a bad experience at public speaking perhaps.
What we do know is that often when something traumatic happens, it seems to get locked in the nervous system (Amygdula) with the original picture, sounds, thoughts, feelings, and so on. Since the experience is locked there, it continues to be triggered (Fight, Flight, Freeze or Fawn reponse) whenever a reminder comes up. It can then become the basis for a lot of discomfort and sometimes a lot of negative emotions, such as fear and helplessness that we can't seem to control. These are really the emotions connected with the old experience that are being triggered.
Moreover, it has been shown that unresolved past experiences can be triggered by a current stressful life event. Once the flood gates are opened, emotional overload ensues and suddenly you can’t cope so effectively anymore. You may not even realise what the old events were until an EMDR trained therapist - such as Ghita Andersen, helps you to find them.
Fast Results:
Ghita uses a HEALY FREQUENCY DEVICE and the original finger movement method of eye desensitisation.
Client Success Stories:
What Kind of Problems Can EMDR Treat?
✔️ Anxiety, panic attack and phobias
✔️ Depression
✔️ Eating disorders
✔️ Grief and loss
✔️ Bad Memories
✔️ Pain/ Anger
✔️ Performance anxiety
✔️ Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)
✔️ Sexual assault
✔️ Sleep disturbance
✔️ Substance abuse and addiction
✔️ Violence and abuse
World Health Recommended:
- EMDR has been endorsed by the American Psychological Association
- The Australian Psychological Society
- The World Health Organisation (WHO) has formally approved EMDR therapy for use with adults, adolescents and children for the treatment of Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)
- 77% of veterans treated for trauma were healed with EMDR
Who Invented it?
In 1987, psychologist Francine Shapiro took a walk in the park. While walking, she happened to notice something interesting: While moving her eyes rapidly, from side to side, while remembering past traumatic events, it seemed to make them less upsetting.
Shapiro began experimenting with this. She found that others had a similar experience. Somehow by moving their eyes while thinking about a past trauma made it a little easier. Consequently, Shapiro eventually developed her discoveries into eye movement desensitization and reprocessing (EMDR) therapy.
What is Trauma?
Trauma can be thought of as a negative event or happening in our lives which is outside of our normal experience in everyday living. It can be a big 'T' trauma, like a car accident or a small 'T' trauma, like a bad experience at public speaking perhaps.
What we do know is that often when something traumatic happens, it seems to get locked in the nervous system (Amygdula) with the original picture, sounds, thoughts, feelings, and so on. Since the experience is locked there, it continues to be triggered (Fight, Flight, Freeze or Fawn reponse) whenever a reminder comes up. It can then become the basis for a lot of discomfort and sometimes a lot of negative emotions, such as fear and helplessness that we can't seem to control. These are really the emotions connected with the old experience that are being triggered.
Moreover, it has been shown that unresolved past experiences can be triggered by a current stressful life event. Once the flood gates are opened, emotional overload ensues and suddenly you can’t cope so effectively anymore. You may not even realise what the old events were until an EMDR trained therapist - such as Ghita Andersen, helps you to find them.
Fast Results:
Ghita uses a HEALY FREQUENCY DEVICE and the original finger movement method of eye desensitisation.
Client Success Stories:
Testimonial via text 2024: PTSD Treatment with EDMR: Hi Ghita, I reflected on that memory that we worked on and it has definitely changed. It feels brighter and I don't get that feeling in my chest. I get the memory of my 4th birthday every time I think of that night in Afghanistan. Charlie (Veteran) - Labrador
★★★★★ Google Review 2020: Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder Treatment
'This lady is absolutely amazing, I've had two sessions now with Ghita, and I felt so comfortable as soon as I had met her; she is very professional and understands the torment I went through as a child. We have started therapy and already I'm starting to feel much better. Thank you Ghita, looking forward to our next visit. Highly recommended.' - Sonya Radzevicius (Coomera)
Testimonial via text 2024: EDMR and NLP: 'I don't want to get too excited and think that all my trauma is gone, and that when I feel down again, I'll get really down on myself because I've created this expectation that I'm like fully healed… But these last few days I felt absolutely free, I feel like I'm able to give more attention to other people and care for more people rather than just worried about myself and in my own head… Life is just feeling so much better at the moment. So thank you so much. - Jackson - Currumbin
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How Does it Work?
One of the main hallmarks of EMDR is its use of bilateral stimulation. That means that the brain is activated on alternating left - right - left sides by various means via the body. This can be by moving the eyes from right to left (finger exercise), by playing a simple sound in alternating ears or by tapping gently on different sides of the body, such as on ear lobes or the hands.
Dialling Down Anxiety
This Bilateral Stimulation (combined with the eye movements) used in EMDR seems to unlock the nervous system and allow your brain to process the experience. It is thought that this may also be what is happening in REM sleep, or dream sleep. Though the use of similar eye movement the brain seems to unlock the negatively stored memories and process the event to a better resolution.
After successful treatment with EMDR therapy, affective distress is relieved, negative beliefs are reformulated and the fight or flight response is reduced.
What Happens During a Session?
Common Methods of Bilateral Stimulation:
Millions of people have been treated successfully for trauma over the past 33 years with EMDR and Somatic Exercises. Did your know that Prince Harry was undergoing a form of therapy known as EMDR (eye movement desensitisation and reprocessing) when he was 12, to treat unresolved anxiety about the paparazzi - stemming from the death of his mother, Diana, Princess of Wales? Source: Guardian Newspaper - May 22, 2021
What Sets Ghita Apart From Other EMDR Therapists?
Ghita Andersen is one of the Top 10 EMDR Therapists on the Gold Coast. Ghita has helped hundreds of trauma patients over the last decade she has been working on the coast.
If you are interested in this method, feel free to call Ghita to have a chat about the best method for you on 0439888070, or alternatively, check availability and book online anytime on the booking tab below.
One of the main hallmarks of EMDR is its use of bilateral stimulation. That means that the brain is activated on alternating left - right - left sides by various means via the body. This can be by moving the eyes from right to left (finger exercise), by playing a simple sound in alternating ears or by tapping gently on different sides of the body, such as on ear lobes or the hands.
Dialling Down Anxiety
This Bilateral Stimulation (combined with the eye movements) used in EMDR seems to unlock the nervous system and allow your brain to process the experience. It is thought that this may also be what is happening in REM sleep, or dream sleep. Though the use of similar eye movement the brain seems to unlock the negatively stored memories and process the event to a better resolution.
After successful treatment with EMDR therapy, affective distress is relieved, negative beliefs are reformulated and the fight or flight response is reduced.
What Happens During a Session?
Common Methods of Bilateral Stimulation:
- Healy Tens Electrodes (Ear Clips: Mental Acute setting: Swings back and forth)
- Eye Exercise: The eye follows a finger moving in three line patterns to loosten memories (Therapist): (Visual Top layer. Auditory Middle layer and Kinesthetic Bottom layer)
Millions of people have been treated successfully for trauma over the past 33 years with EMDR and Somatic Exercises. Did your know that Prince Harry was undergoing a form of therapy known as EMDR (eye movement desensitisation and reprocessing) when he was 12, to treat unresolved anxiety about the paparazzi - stemming from the death of his mother, Diana, Princess of Wales? Source: Guardian Newspaper - May 22, 2021
What Sets Ghita Apart From Other EMDR Therapists?
Ghita Andersen is one of the Top 10 EMDR Therapists on the Gold Coast. Ghita has helped hundreds of trauma patients over the last decade she has been working on the coast.
If you are interested in this method, feel free to call Ghita to have a chat about the best method for you on 0439888070, or alternatively, check availability and book online anytime on the booking tab below.
★★★★★ Google Review 2024: 6 Week EMDR Program: (Veteran with PTSD)
'I saw Ghita for EMDR and NLP over 6 sessions and I was amazed at the impact it left. Her welcoming nature and expertise allowed me to get the most out of the experience and surfaced underlying issues that I didn’t realise were there. I would definitely recommend Ghita for EMDR or NLP and I’ll return if I ever need it again.' - Charlie Hawken (Labrador)
EMDR AMAZING BREAKTHROUGH PROGRAM:
6 Hour Package: Highly Recommended - this package is for one introductory two hour session followed by 4 weekly sessions (5 sessions = 6 hours in total). The client books the first two hour session and the therapist selects the next 4 sessions manually: $699 - Save $21
This highly recommended combination of six EMDR hours blends both Bilateral Stimulation and Eye Desensitisation. This combination has the benefit of removing not only the emotion from the memory, but double checking that the trauma is no longer stuck in the Visual, Auditory, Kinesthetic storage areas of the memory – in relation to the past, present and future (Time Line). This combination of methods has been found to be extraordinary for removing trauma.
Releasing Negative Emotions From Events
The old memory of an event is not always the problem, it is often the emotion attached to the event or the events may have compounded over a lifespan. Triggers that cause negative emotions get in the way of one's work, relationships, health and life etc. Taking away the negative anchors attached to past events changes a person's behaviour and perspective on life.
The client is asked to identify three things:
Important: When booking this package online the client books the first intensive and Ghita books the following consecutive weekly appointments.
6 Hour Package: Highly Recommended - this package is for one introductory two hour session followed by 4 weekly sessions (5 sessions = 6 hours in total). The client books the first two hour session and the therapist selects the next 4 sessions manually: $699 - Save $21
This highly recommended combination of six EMDR hours blends both Bilateral Stimulation and Eye Desensitisation. This combination has the benefit of removing not only the emotion from the memory, but double checking that the trauma is no longer stuck in the Visual, Auditory, Kinesthetic storage areas of the memory – in relation to the past, present and future (Time Line). This combination of methods has been found to be extraordinary for removing trauma.
Releasing Negative Emotions From Events
The old memory of an event is not always the problem, it is often the emotion attached to the event or the events may have compounded over a lifespan. Triggers that cause negative emotions get in the way of one's work, relationships, health and life etc. Taking away the negative anchors attached to past events changes a person's behaviour and perspective on life.
- Session One (2 hours): The first session is an information gathering session. Ghita assesses the client’s readiness and develops a treatment plan. Working together, client and therapist identify distressing memories and current situations that cause emotional distress – in relation to the five senses. For example: Some memories are very vivid, may have sounds attached and create certain feelings.
The client is asked to identify three things:
- The vivid visual image and sounds related to the memory: (Parents screaming at me.)
- A negative belief about self: ('I am a bad person.')
- Related emotions and body sensations. (Tightness in tummy, sadness, shame) and the scale of the discomfort out of ten.
- Session Two (1 hour): Information gathering plus if there is time, an eye movement desensitisation exercise (Finger exercise discovering whether memory or feelings are based in VAK. The visual, auditory or kinesthetic parts of memory). This exercise designed to reduce the fight or flight programming, reduce the emotion attached to an event (or limiting belief) and to create a calmer or neutral feeling. It is like turning down the dial of a radio or tv set.
- Session Three to Four (1 hour each): Eye movement desensitization exercises (finger exercises) plus bi-lateral tapping to unstick any memory in the Visual, Auditory or Kinesthetic areas of memory. This is best done repeatedly to double check that this memory and trauma are deleted to the fullest extent possible. Reduce visual images, sounds, feelings. The EMDR exercises are combined with homework inbetween sessions - such as bi-lateral tapping and journalling.
- Session Five (1 hour): Check-in session to review the improvement level. There should be major improvement or complete removal of the original trauma response or limiting belief. When the client reports no distress related to the targeted memory, (s)he is asked to think of the preferred positive belief that was identified at the beginning of the session. We then make the new positive belief (Eg: 'I am a good person'), scaled up to 10/10.
Important: When booking this package online the client books the first intensive and Ghita books the following consecutive weekly appointments.
Terms and Conditions for EMDR Intensive Package 2025:
- Available Online Only: 100% Deposit Required Upon Booking Online.
- Please chat to Ghita Andersen before booking this package to be sure this package suits your circumstances
- 24 HOURS NOTICE OF CANCELLATIONS: We cannot fill sessions at short notice. Cancellation Policies
- No refunds on package with less than 24 hours notice.
- No refunds on unused hours once package has begun: Eg: Late Cancellations, Postponements beyond the three month period of validity. Late cancellations or no shows will forfeit the appointment.
- The consecutive order of the package is vital to it's success
- Clients select initial 2 hour session on the booking portal, after which the therapist has to book you in for consecutive appointments so that they can track the hours used
- Not available with any other offers
- Package expires within 3 months of purchase
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