EMDR, Counselling & Psychotherapy with Charlotte.
Welcome to my website, my name Is Charlotte Pearson (she/her).
I aim to offer you information about how I work and what you can expect from me should we choose to go into therapy together.
I am currently at capacity for new clients, if you would like to be added to my waitlist- please use the button below, or/and get in touch for more details.
What is Integrative Psychotherapy and EMDR?
You might experience Integrative therapy as giving you options. It's an approach that values you as being the expert in your life, and that different tools or perspectives are needed for different parts of us.
This approach can offer a traditional talking type therapeutic experience, whereby difficulties can be explored and worked through, and some cognitive sense can be made of your experience.
Alongside this, other less cognitive approaches, creative approaches such as sand tray therapy which uses symbolism to express experiences than perhaps you don't yet have words for might be useful.
Visualisation and meditation can help parts of our consciousness integrate, and you can notice 'what is happening in the now'- which is helpful for moving through experiences than feel stuck, or what we might call trauma.
Through different therapeutic modalities you can gain a more holistic sense of yourself.
Working Integratively means working with all of you, we all have different parts of ourselves, the roles we play in life, ego state therapy can help you integrate and understand parts of you that may arise and not be so helpful in your current life- for example during conflicts. You might recognise feeling small, or childlike for example and this can be worked through.
The therapeutic relationship in itself is an effective predicter at how well you feel you've taken what you've needed from therapy, by helping you experience a healthy, boundaried relationship with your best interests at heart. Humans learn and grow through new relational and experiential information, which can be felt in therapy.
Perhaps a sense of 'I've never been listened to this way before'.
EMDR is different to traditional talk therapies, it's an approach that uses your own bodies natural way or processing difficulties such as memories, physical sensations that are disturbing, nightmares, and flashbacks- using something called bilateral stimulation.
Traditional EMDR is thought of as a trauma therapy, it's application can have many uses, and can offer a lot of relief from distressing symptoms.
It can be really helpful in moving on from an isolated event that continues to be distressing, in longer term work it can be helpful in changing long standing held self beliefs, and their associated triggers- such as in the case of CPTSD. This work is far more delicate, and requires an Integrative approach too.
You could think of EMDR as a way of helping you move on from difficulties that you have felt stuck with. It is an 8 phase process, and the speed and depth of the process depends on the presenting difficulty and your individual resources.
EMDR is a creative model of therapy, and can be used to heal 'the blank space', which can be neglect wounding, the things that didn't happen but needed to, for a sense of inner security and ongoing development. This is called attachment focussed EMDR, which uses imagination and visualisation with attachment figures, to change your felt sense of memories and difficult experiences from the past. This can have profound effects on how parts of us feel valued and attuned to.
For more information on the type of difficulties I might be able to support you with, please see 'my practice' page.
Below are websites that can be explored to understand how EMDR might help you.
Discover EMDR - EMDR UK Association (emdrassociation.org.uk)
Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) for PTSD (youtube.com)