About Oliver Wright, Consultant EMDR Therapist
I am an experienced trauma therapist and supervisor specialising in EMDR (eye movement desensitisation and reprocessing). I also work online with Zoom.
I am a registered and accredited member of the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy (BACP) and an EMDR Europe accredited Consultant. I trained in counselling and psychotherapy at the University of East London and completed my Diploma in 2006.
I offer weekly EMDR sessions and intensive EMDR therapy.
Intensive EMDR sessions
Intensive EMDR therapy is a very effective and time efficient way of working through and resolving traumatic memories with EMDR. Often a single day of intensive EMDR can allow us to work through the same amount of traumatic material that would otherwise take 2-3 months in weekly sessions.
Intensive EMDR can include 2 - 4 longer 90 minute EMDR sessions per day for 1-5 days depending on the amount of material that we need to work through.
FLASH
The Flash Technique, developed by EMDR Trainer Phil Manfield, is a quick and safe way of processing disturbing memories without the need to feel these memories as intensely as you do with other approaches like EMDR. I often use Flash and EMDR in my work with clients suffering from complex PTSD.
Areas of special experience
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Trauma and PTSD (Post Traumatic Stress Disorder)
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Complex PTSD (including attachment and relational trauma)
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Dissociation (the ways in which we separate ourselves from overwhelming emotion or sensations)
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Addictions (including addiction to unhealthy or dysfunctional relationships)
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Phobias (including fear of flying)
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Sex and relationship issues
Code of Ethics
I work with a strict code of ethics set by the BACP.
Therapy in Stoke Newington, North London, N16
I see clients in my private practice in Stoke Newington, London N16 and online (with Zoom).
NHS work
I work as a Senior Therapist and EMDR Consultant Supervisor for the Grenfell Health and Wellbeing Service which is part of Central and North West London NHS Foundation Trust.
My previous practice experience includes working for at iCope, the Camden and Islington Psychological Therapies Service and the IAPT NHS talking therapies service run by Mind in West Essex, One Therapy London, as a volunteer counsellor for Terrence Higgins Trust counselling team and at the Centre for Better Health (formerly the Psychiatric Rehabilitation Association or PRA).
Books
Books I have found important in my recent work include:
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Healing the Fragmented Selves of Trauma Survivors by Janina Fisher
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EMDR Toolbox: Theory and Treatment of Complex PTSD and Dissociation by Jim Knipe
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The Body Keeps the Score by Bessel van der Kolk