Gerry Douglas has successfully worked with hundreds of counselling clients using Eye Movement Desensitisation and Reprocessing therapy, better known as EMDR. He completed basic and advanced training with the founder of EMDR, Dr Francine Shapiro PhD, in New York (1997), and at her then home at Sea Ranch on the California coast (1999). Gerry completed advanced training with Dr Andrew Leeds in Kansas City in 2001. In January 2026 he completed advanced training with Carolyn Settle MSW LCSW, in using EMDR with children and youth. Gerry is registered as an EMDR Clinician with the EMDR Institutie in the US.
Whilst Gerry provides EMDR therapy online, throughout NZ, those who see him face to face in Auckland for appointments have the added advantage of EMDR therapy being complemented by the use of Biofeedback and Neurofeedback. The application of these body and brain training technologies markedly increase the efficiency of resetting your natural capacity to self-heal.
You can learn more about Gerry’s services, qualifications and professional experience by going to this link, or clicking the Home tag on the menu bar at the top of this page.
How is EMDR Therapy Different?
EMDR therapy is different, because you don’t have to talk in detail about whatever traumatic experiences you have endured. EMDR restarts your natural capacity to self-heal. It does this by resetting aspects of neural functioning in your peripheral and central nervous systems, including parts of your brain.
Eye Movement Desensitisation and Reprocessing (EMDR) therapy has been extensively researched, and proven to help people recover from trauma and other distressing life experiences, including PTSD, anxiety, depression, and panic disorders. Over 100,000 clinicians throughout the world use EMDR. Millions of people have been treated successfully over the past 30 years.
Some Signs Your Natural Healing Process is Stuck
- Anger problems
- Anxiety, and/or on-going worries
- Hours spent computer gaming
- Frequent viewing of pornography
- Depression
- Flashbacks of traumatic memory
- Nightmares
- Grinding teeth
- Mood swings
- Physical pain that has its origin in unresolved psychological stressors, adverse life events and trauma
- PTSI and PTSD -Post Traumatic Stress Injury, and Post Traumatic Stress Disorder
- Unhappy relationships pattern -couples, family, or work-related
- Rigid behavioural expectations of yourself, or others
- Risky behaviours
- Over-use of alcohol, prescription meds, or street drugs
The above isn’t an exhaustive list. Gerry will ask you to complete some questionnaires that will give opportunity for you to see if there are lesser known indicators of your natural healing processes being in a stuck state.
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