Thinking Space – Clare Smith – Specialist therapeutic support – primarily EMDR Therapy – for adults, young people, and children, whose current difficulties might relate to recent or historic traumatic or distressing events. Autistic people and those experiencing complex dissociation are welcomed.

It’s not about ‘What’s wrong with you?’ it’s about ‘What happened to you?’
(Eleanor Longden, 2013)

Thinking Space offers…

…a range of trauma-based interventions, primarily Eye Movement Desensitisation and Reprocessing (EMDR) Therapy, to help people of all ages cope with and recover from the impact of traumatic, distressing, and disturbing events, however large or small, and whenever they occurred. Therapy can be specially adapted to suit the needs of those experiencing dissociation, including complex dissociation such as dissociative identity disorder/response (DID/DIR), and those who are neurodiverse – especially those who are autistic – but including any form of neurodiversity.

Events that may appear small to adults can have a devastating impact on children, and those who experience any difference or disability are more likely to have experienced such events or been adversely affected by them. Even seemingly minor incidents, if they occur several times or over the course of time, can have long-lasting effects on both adults and children, with the footprints of childhood experiences lasting into adulthood.

In addition to the more conventional setting within Thinking Space, sessions may take place along local lanes and footpaths (‘Walk and Talk’), or remotely using an online video conferencing/specialist EMDR Therapy platform.

Clare Smith is also affiliated with The Keystone Clinic, Youghal, County Cork, offering online sessions to people in Ireland.

A little about Clare Smith

Clare is an EMDR Europe accredited consultant (EMDR Europe: levels 1, 2, 3 and 4; EMDR with Children and Adolescents levels I and II), with a master’s degree (MSc) in Eye Movement Desensitisation and Reprocessing (EMDR) Therapy. She works with clients of all ages in person and online in the UK, and online in Ireland.

Clare is a former Associate Specialist Psychiatrist who was based in the Worcestershire Child and Adolescent Mental Health Service (CAMHS) for 14 years. Her specialism was in the assessment and mental health of children and young people who experienced the world differently, often due to autism, ADHD, tics, sensory processing differences, language or learning difficulties. Having retired from psychiatry and no longer working as a doctor, she brings her knowledge and skills to her EMDR therapy practice.

Clare lectured at the University of Worcester on a range of topics relating to mental health including trauma, human development, neurodiversity, and EMDR therapy for many years. She now concentrates her teaching on supporting EMDR therapists to whom she offers consultation/ supervision, and teaching about the use of EMDR therapy with dissociative and neurodiverse people of all ages.

More about Clare Smith

Thinking Space
Green Gates, Scots Lane, Astley Burf, Stourport-on-Severn, Worcestershire, UK. DY13 0SD

The Keystone Clinic
St Mary’s College, Emmet Place, Youghal, Co. Cork, Ireland. P36 N796

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