Brisbane Psychology & EMDR Therapy

Evidence based psychology and counselling.

Being human means that sometimes challenging life experiences overwhelm our usual coping abilities.Breaking away from our habitual ways of looking at things, learning new ways and responding differently takes courage.

Professional support can get us back on our feet, reconnected with our goals and flourishing. At MWT, you will be treated with warmth and respect. You come to this work with your capacity, skills, knowledge and potential to find solutions to your own challenges.

Who can benefit from counselling?

• The number of EMDR sessions required to address your symptoms will vary depending on the complexity of your psychopathology and the degree of protective factors available to you.For example, EMDR treatment can work very rapidly for the client who has only experienced a single incident trauma. A psychologically healthy person who has had a supportive childhood, no history of drug or alcohol abuse, and generally happy intimate relationships with loved ones, is likely to respond to treatment very quickly.However people who have been exposed to multiple, often interrelated forms of traumatic experiences, as in complex trauma, will generally require longer treatment.  Adults presenting with trauma that began in childhood, who were perpetrated by persons within formative attachment relationships and whose trauma was compounded  by co-morbidities of mental illness, addiction, domestic violence and a host of other stresses are likely to need longer therapy.Good therapy helps your brain and your nervous system learn via connection to adaptive neural networks. But a brain that is dealing with a multitude of long established stressors will usually take much longer to achieve this.

   

  At MWT we work with a range of client difficulties including:

• Trauma/PTSD
• Complex Trauma (multiple, often interrelated traumatic experiences)
• Family of origin difficulties
• Nightmares
• Anxiety counselling – Including Generalised and Social Anxiety
• Phobias or fears
• Grief and loss – Including unresolved grief
• Bullying
• Chronic Pain
• Anger
• Addiction including eating disorders where changing the narrative/inner dialogue you have about yourself, actions and choices is a fundamental feature underlying the disorder.