Eye Movement Integration Course

‘Certified Practitioner’s Course’

With Tom Smith BSc (Hons)

The Next Eye Movement Integration Course starts on Saturday 31st March 2012.

Call Tom today on 07738380146 to book a place on this amazing course and receive an early bird discount and train as an Eye Movement Integration Practitioner at the Southbourne School of Hypnosis on the South Coast of England.

This is a one-day certified practitioner’s course suitable for Therapists, Counsellors, Hypnotherapists, Psychotherapists, Doctors, Nurses and other Practitioners.

Add EMI to your therapeutic toolbox and help your clients recover from PTSD and related trauma quickly with the use of Eye Movement Integration.

This one-day Practitioner’s course takes place on a Saturday from 9.30am to 4.30pm and the cost is only £85.

Call Tom on 07738380146 for dates and an early bird discount.

What is Eye Movement Integration?

Eye Movement Integration or EMI for short is similar to EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing, however, to gain a practitioner’s certificate in EMI is a lot less expensive than EMDR and is just as effective.

EMI was created by NLP Practitioners, developers and trainers Steve and Connirae Andreas in 1989 to help patients deal with trauma such as PTSD (Post Traumatic Stress Disorder). Practitioners, including myself have used Eye Movement Integration as a successful treatment to overcome the trauma of war, rape, abuse, addiction and other events that they cannot overcome on their own due to the event being more than their mind can process.  The person in the treatment program follows objects with their eyes back and forth repetitively.  The movement of the eyes from left to right and from right to left is called bilateral stimulation.

The reason bilateral stimulation is necessary is because when tragic events happen the mind is not capable of processing the event, forcing the memories to be stored in an isolated spot in the mind.  An individual can experience something that reminds them of a traumatic event through one of their senses, such as something as simple as a smell they remembered during the traumatic situation.  When this particular smell appears the person can experience a flashback of the event that took place.  When such reminders occur, the unprocessed thoughts appear and can create extremely uncomfortable emotions causing the sufferer to over-react.  Post traumatic feelings can surface even years after the event has taken place if the thoughts are never processed properly.  For a person living with such thoughts, it can be a scary thing to have these feelings surface at any time.

The treatment normally begins with targets being identified, meaning the event or feelings that need to be worked through.  Then the targets are associated and EMI therapy and bilateral stimulation takes place.  The client follows the practitioner’s fingers with their eyes and they are asked what thoughts, feelings or images it brings up for them. The stress of the individual is monitored and in most cases it decreases as early as after just one session.  This process is based on desensitizing the client of their past memory of negative thoughts.  When the mind is desensitized, it is believed that the client can actually work through the event that occurred in their past and is creating problems in their current life.

Eye Movement Integration has had such a strong track record of positive results in clients trying to deal with traumatic events that it is being used for many types of other problems such as substance abuse.  In the cases of substance abuse EMI therapy is more effective when integrating other therapies such as counselling, hypnotherapy or EFT.

When this form of treatment first began many professionals and people seeking treatment options were sceptical about the benefits and the results of EMI therapy. However, the people that have been able to process traumatic events in their minds and lead more positive lives due to this treatment are proof that it not only works, but it works well. I have worked with many clients who suffered with PTSD and related trauma and eye movement integration has been a rapid and effective method in helping a client deal with their trauma.

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