If your days feel like a sprint and evenings arrive with a thud, stress isn’t just in your calendar—it’s in your nervous system.
As a female EMDR therapist in Weybridge, I help you build a steadier baseline so your body knows how to downshift. We begin with simple grounding: feet noticing the floor, eyes orienting to safe shapes and colours, breath that lengthens rather than forces calm. These micro‑skills are teachable and portable, and they start to loosen the ‘all gas, no brake’ pattern that many of my clients describe.
We then grow somatic awareness. Together we map early cues—the jaw that quietly clamps, shoulders sliding upward, a breath that goes thin, the sense that your vision narrows. Instead of pushing through, you’ll learn how to meet those signals immediately with kind interventions: softening the tongue, widening the gaze, placing a steadying hand on the sternum, letting exhale lengthen. The goal is not perfection; it is responsiveness.
With enough stability we integrate EMDR’s bilateral stimulation. In short, we bring gentle rhythmic attention to experiences that keep stress locked on: the meeting where you always freeze, the glance that triggers pressure, the old belief that rest must be earned. Processing happens in small, supported steps so your system stays inside its window of tolerance. You choose the pace. We pause often. Nothing is rushed.
Because life keeps moving, we co‑create practical routines that hold change in the places you need it most. Tiny transition rituals after calls, brief outside‑the‑door breaths before you step inside at night, a two‑minute reset that helps you leave work at work. These aren’t grand gestures; they are stitches that keep the day from unravelling the calm you’re building.
Clients usually notice clearer thinking, easier sleep entry and fewer spikes at predictable times. Over weeks the body learns that calm is not the same as collapse; it becomes a state you can access, use and trust. My role is to provide a reliable, compassionate space. Your role is to bring your lived experience and consent. Together we re‑teach your system what steadiness feels like.
FAQ
Q1. How does somatic EMDR reduce everyday stress?
We retrain your nervous system with grounding, body awareness and bilateral stimulation, so the shift from overdrive to steadiness becomes learnable and repeatable.
Q2. Will I get tools I can use between sessions?
Yes. We design brief resets for meetings, commutes and evenings that keep tension from stacking up.
Q3. Do you offer both Weybridge and online sessions?
Yes. You can choose in‑person appointments in Weybridge or secure online sessions across the UK.