In addition to the more conventional setting within Thinking Space, sessions may take place in the adjacent private woodland, in the garden, along local lanes and bridleways (‘Walk and Talk’), or remotely using an online video conferencing/specialist EMDR Therapy platform.
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 events, 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 events lasting into adulthood.
About Clare Smith
Clare is an EMDR Therapist (EMDR Europe levels 1, 2, 3 and 4 & EMDR Europe EMDR with Children and Adolescents levels I and II), as well as a master’s degree (MSc) in Eye Movement Desensitisation and Reprocessing (EMDR) Therapy.
Clare is a former Associate Specialist Psychiatrist who was based in the Worcestershire Child and Adolescent Mental Health Service (CAMHS) for 14 years. As a psychiatrist, her area of particular interest was in the assessment and mental health of children and young people who experienced the world differently, often due to autism, ADHD, sensory processing differences, or tics. She has now retired from clinical medicine and is no longer working as a doctor but brings her knowledge and skills to her EMDR therapy practice.
Having lectured part-time at the University of Worcester on a range of topics relating to child and adolescent mental health, trauma, neurodiversity, and EMDR therapy for many years, Clare now concentrates her teaching on supporting EMDR therapists in training, and teaching about the use of EMDR therapy with dissociative and neurodiverse people of all ages.
Thinking Space
Green Gates, Scots Lane, Astley Burf, Stourport-on-Severn, Worcestershire DY13 0SD
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