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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 Skype or 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.

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I am particularly interested in treating trauma, dissociation, PTSD, anxiety and phobias using EMDR and a range of approaches that I integrate into this work. For more information on EMDR see EMDR UK.

Areas of experience

  • Anxiety

  • Depression

  • Trauma PTSD (Post Traumatic Stress Disorder) and dissociation

  • Addictions (including addiction to unhealthy or dysfunctional relationships)

  • Phobias (including fear of flying)

  • Relationships (including couples therapy)

  • Chronic pain and psychologically based pain (or Medically Unexplained Symptoms, MUS)

  • Sexual problems including erectile dysfunction, sexual risk counselling and HIV diagnosis

  • Sexuality and coming out

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 (Skype and Zoom).

NHS work
I work as a Senior Therapist and EMDR 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:

  • Healing the Fragmented Selves of Trauma Survivors by Janina Fisher

  • EMDR Toolbox: Theory and Treatment of Complex PTSD and Dissociation by Jim Knipe

  • The Body Keeps the Score by Bessel van der Kolk

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