Modern, compassionate therapy in a stunning setting
About FVW Psychology
With over 19 years experience in clinical practice, Faye offers individualised therapy for adults, specializing in EMDR therapy. Located in the tranquil and historic grounds of Ushaw: Historic House, Gardens, and Chapels, Faye provides a serene environment for your healing journey. Online appointments are also available to accommodate your needs. Faye's approach is to empower you to overcome past traumas and current challenges, allowing you to live a more fulfilling life. Faye is committed to providing a safe and supportive space for your personal growth and well-being.
What is EMDR?
EMDR therapy helps our brain to process the traumatic memory that has the stress response and triggers associated with it and allows for natural healing to occur. The fight-or-flight response is essentially removed from the memory, yet the memory is retained. The memory of the trauma seems to be reconsolidated in such a way that it no longer causes severe distress when later recalled. When the PTSD symptoms are resolved or lessened, other conditions are helped too.
EMDR is helpful in a variety of areas:
Anxiety
Depression
Relationships
Anxiety can be debilitating, but with EMDR therapy, we can help you process and overcome the root causes of your anxiety, allowing you to experience greater peace and calm in your life. EMDR can be sued alone or with other therapeutic approached.
EMDR can relieve depressive symptoms and help reframe negative beliefs, resolve unprocessed trauma and adverse experiences, improve energy and mood, and create a more positive understanding of the self and others.
Relational trauma can significantly impact an individual's self-perception and self-esteem. Survivors may internalise negative beliefs about themselves, feel unworthy, unlovable, or responsible for the traumatic experiences. EMDR can play a significant role in facilitating healing from relational trauma.
Eating Disorders
Traumatic experiences can create a sense of turmoil, so focusing on food can allow a person to feel that they have regained a sense of control that they lost due to their trauma. A person may feel powerless after a traumatic incident and therefore resort to restrictive behaviours. In contrast, some people with eating disorders may feel a lack of control and, instead dissociate when they eat, causing them to eat more than they should.
Trauma
EMDR is probably best known for reducing the symptoms of PTSD following a traumatic event. These can include a reduction in nightmares, flashbacks, difficulty sleeping, irritability, being easily startled.
Fears and Phobias
EMDR treats the events in which you have encountered phobic objects or situations as unprocessed traumas, and you work through your memories to achieve an adaptive resolution. In other words, if your body is trained to identify certain objects or situations as threats, it will act accordingly. EMDR helps your body learn that the objects/situations do not have to be threatening and eliminates distressing memories of the phobia.
Contact Me
Faye Wood, HCPC Registered Practitioner Psychologist
If in Crisis
-
Call NHS 111
-
Go into any Accident and Emergency (A & E) department
-
Call an ambulance to take you to A & E
-
Contact your GP and ask for an urgent appointment
-
Call the Samaritans, on 116 123, for free. They are available 24 hours a day, 365 days a year.