Gerry Douglas provides EMDR therapy online throughout NZ. 
He has successfully worked with hundreds of counselling clients using Eye Movement Desensitisation and Reprocessing therapy, better known as EMDR.
Gerry 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). He completed further advanced training with Dr Andrew Leeds in Kansas City in 2001. Gerry is registered as an EMDR Clinician with the EMDR Institutie in the US.
How EMDR Appointments Work Online
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You need to use a computer for the appointment, rather than a cellphone or a pad
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You need to use wired ear buds or wired headphones for sound
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Just prior to your appointment time you will receive an email containing a link to click. You will be taken through a camera, sound, and microphone check, before meeting Gerry for the live session.
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There’s no need for special software. Gerry controls when the eye movement visual stimulus appears on your screen, for you to follow with your eyes. You’ll also hear an alternating short sound in one ear, and then the other. The sound is in sync with the eye movement stimulus on the screen.
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 dysregulated 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
- 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 less well-known indicators of your natural healing processes being in a stuck state.
EMDR therapy -a sure way to get past your past
Please read the Terms of Engagement page