Schema Therapy for Eating Disorders
Unfulfilled emotional needs during childhood or adolescence can lead to problems in adult life due negative patterns or strategies being formed and registered as default earlier on.
These are called “schemas”, which lay dormant until activated by a trigger. A trigger can be any emotional discomfort or event that challenges and reminds one of the past issues. The schema gets activated and the person may act on an unconscious mode and be prone to repeat the same response over and over.
Schemas are commonly present in weight issues and eating disorders, when a person may find difficult to deal with emotions and use food to self-soothe for example. The use of Schema Therapy facilitates self awareness of these underlying and often unconscious processes. Once aware, the person can make different choices and learn new and healthier ways to handle emotions and various challenging situations.
EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprogramming)
EMDR is a well researched form of psychotherapy for the treatment of PTSD, trauma and disturbing experiences.
This model’s focus is on accessing and reprocessing memories and information stored from adverse life experiences, whether recent or from childhood, and bringing those to a place of adaptability, where the individual can gain new perspectives and heal.
Healing occurs when blockages caused by those stressful or unpleasant events are removed, eliminating physical symptoms, suffering and emotional difficulties. Using bilateral stimulation of the eyes, tactile or auditory, the individual is guided to focus on the upsetting event whilst staying present and focused in the moment.The brain then reprocess the images, feelings and/or beliefs and move the information, which was kept isolated, into more adaptive areas of brain where new meaning can be experienced.
The result, simply put, is that the individual would perceive the situation with a different lens, eliminating the negative effects of that event into their present experience.
Clinical Hypnotherapy
A way to communicate with and adjust unconscious beliefs, habits, thinking patterns and behaviours in a format that is natural, gentle and subtle.
The sessions will be targeted on the current difficulties and what the client desires to achieve or change. The client’s own language is used to converse with the unconscious part of the mind, utilising metaphor and story telling to convey deep meaning to initiate change.
