EMDR Therapy

EMDR therapy for Abu Dhabi, online

EMDR is the most strongly evidence-based treatment for psychological trauma, recommended by the World Health Organization, the UK’s NICE and every serious health authority as a first-line treatment for post-traumatic stress disorder. Dr Philippe Jacquet has practised EMDR for more than twenty years. For people in Abu Dhabi, sessions take place online by encrypted video, in complete confidentiality, in English or French.

What EMDR does

During an event experienced as an intense threat, emotional overload can stop the brain from processing the experience normally. The memory stays unintegrated, charged with emotion, bodily sensation and negative beliefs about oneself, and can reactivate at any moment, triggered by cues that seem trivial. EMDR uses bilateral stimulation to help the brain reprocess and integrate the memory. Afterwards the memory remains, but it loses its overwhelming charge, and the body no longer reacts as if the event were happening again.

Trauma in an internationally mobile life

For expatriates and globally mobile professionals, trauma is often under-recognised: an accident, a crisis at work, violence or pressure, or the cumulative strain of repeated relocation and loss with no time to process it. EMDR can reach this where advice and coaching cannot. You can read more on the EMDR therapy page.