EMDR Adjunctive Therapy - Lauren Cumberbatch

EMDRIA Certified EMDR Therapist and Approved Consultant

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ADJUNCT EMDR

There are moments in therapy where we feel stuck or loop on issues related to negative life experiences. It can be discouraging for both the client and the therapist. When the primary therapist and client collaborate with an EMDR therapist, this partnership can often help move treatment forward.

I partner with primary therapists and their clients to target their clients’ specific memories, body sensations, or limiting beliefs with EMDR therapy. By narrowly targeting specific traumatic memories or intrusive material, adjunct EMDR therapy can affectively help the client and the primary therapist to resolve stuck points, and enrich their ongoing work.

Adjunct therapy does not replace or interrupt ongoing therapy; it is supplemental to the primary therapeutic relationship. With adjunct EMDR therapy, clients continue to receive treatment with their primary therapist.
The success of treatment is based on setting clear goals for the EMDR therapist, defined in collaboration with the primary therapist and client.

For Referring Therapists

Referring therapists support the client prior to and following EMDR sessions.

Who is Not Appropriate to Refer

Clients who are highly structurally dissociative, actively abusing alcohol or drugs, experiencing hallucinations or delusions, are actively suicidal, self-harming, or experiencing an acute mental health care issue, or are otherwise unstable, are not appropriate for referral.