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EMDR Therapy for PTSD and Trauma

Healing from Trauma with Professional Support

Trauma can leave you feeling stuck – as though painful memories are replaying on a loop,
bringing back the same emotions and reactions long after the event. Eye Movement
Desensitisation and Reprocessing (EMDR) is a clinically proven, evidence-based therapy
recommended by the NHS and NICE for post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD).

At Wyke Therapy, I use EMDR to help you reprocess traumatic memories in a safe and
supportive way, so they no longer hold the same power over you.

Take the first step today. Book a free 15-minute consultation to see how I can help.

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Online Therapy for PTSD and Trauma

Living with Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) or unresolved trauma can feel like being stuck in survival mode. Flashbacks, anxiety, poor sleep, sudden fear responses, or feeling constantly on edge can make everyday life feel unsafe.

At Wyke Therapy, online therapy for PTSD and trauma is offered using evidence-based approaches including EMDR and trauma-focused therapy. Sessions are calm, confidential, and paced carefully, helping you process what happened and begin rebuilding a stronger sense of safety and peace.

Understand Trauma Responses

Therapy helps you understand why your mind and body may still be responding as though danger is present, even when the traumatic event is in the past.

Process Difficult Memories

EMDR and trauma-focused therapy can help reduce the emotional intensity attached to distressing memories, so they feel less vivid, intrusive, and overwhelming.

Rebuild Safety

The aim is to help you feel more grounded, more in control, and better able to move through daily life without trauma calling the shots.

Understanding PTSD and Trauma

PTSD is the mind and body’s response to overwhelming or deeply threatening experiences. It can develop after accidents, assault, abuse, bereavement, medical procedures, difficult birth experiences, workplace trauma, or any event that felt frightening, unsafe, or impossible to process at the time.

Symptoms may appear soon after the event, or emerge months or years later. They can also be triggered by reminders of what happened, even when those reminders seem small or unrelated on the surface.

Trauma can affect the nervous system, emotions, sleep, relationships, concentration, confidence, and the way you see yourself and the world. Therapy helps your brain and body process traumatic memories safely, so they become part of your past rather than something that keeps replaying in the present.

Common signs of PTSD and trauma can include:

  • Intrusive memories, flashbacks, or nightmares.
  • Feeling constantly on edge, alert, or easily startled.
  • Avoiding places, people, conversations, or reminders linked to what happened.
  • Feeling numb, disconnected, detached, or emotionally shut down.
  • Guilt, shame, anger, sadness, or self-blame.
  • Difficulty sleeping, concentrating, relaxing, or feeling safe.
  • Anxiety, panic, or strong body reactions linked to past events.

How Therapy Can Help

Effective trauma therapy is about more than talking. Trauma can be held in the body as well as the mind, which means healing often involves helping the nervous system respond differently to memories, triggers, and reminders.

At Wyke Therapy, trauma treatment may include EMDR, grounding techniques, stabilisation work, and trauma-focused approaches. These methods are designed to reduce distress, improve emotional regulation, and help you feel more present and less controlled by the past.

  • Understand how trauma affects the brain, body, and nervous system.
  • Build grounding and calming skills before deeper trauma work begins.
  • Reduce the intensity of traumatic memories, flashbacks, and triggers.
  • Process difficult experiences without needing to retell every detail.
  • Rebuild confidence, self-compassion, and a stronger sense of safety.
  • Develop tools to manage difficult emotions in everyday life.

What Is EMDR Therapy?

EMDR stands for Eye Movement Desensitisation and Reprocessing. It is an evidence-based therapy often used to treat PTSD and trauma. EMDR helps the brain reprocess distressing memories so they become less emotionally charged.

During EMDR, you focus on aspects of the memory while using bilateral stimulation, such as eye movements, tapping, or sound. Over time, the memory remains, but the distress attached to it can reduce.

Online EMDR and Trauma Therapy

Online therapy allows you to access trauma support from the privacy and comfort of your own space. For many people, this can feel safer and more manageable than attending appointments in person.

Sessions are paced carefully, with time spent building stabilisation and grounding skills before moving into deeper trauma processing.

EMDR Can Help With

EMDR and trauma-focused therapy can support people with a wide range of trauma-related difficulties, including single-event trauma, complex trauma, and anxiety or panic linked to past experiences.

  • Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD).
  • Accident, assault, or abuse trauma.
  • Childhood or attachment trauma.
  • Medical trauma, birth trauma, or bereavement-related trauma.
  • Anxiety or panic linked to past events.
  • Work-related trauma or stress in healthcare, emergency, or caring roles.
  • Phobias, OCD, or health anxiety where trauma plays a role.

What to Expect from Therapy

Trauma therapy moves at your pace. You do not have to relive every detail of your trauma or talk about everything before you feel ready. Early sessions often focus on understanding your symptoms, building trust, and developing grounding tools so you feel more stable before processing deeper material.

Sessions are usually 60-90 minutes, depending on the work being undertaken and what feels appropriate for you. Many people begin to notice improvements within 6-12 sessions, although this varies depending on the nature of the trauma and your goals.

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Free Consultation

A short call to explore what is bringing you to therapy and whether the approach feels right for you.

2

Stabilisation

We build grounding and calming techniques so you feel safer before processing deeper material.

3

Reprocessing

EMDR or trauma-focused methods are used to reduce emotional intensity and trauma triggers.

4

Integration

We focus on applying what you have learned to everyday life and maintaining progress over time.

Why Choose Wyke Therapy?

Michelle offers evidence-based trauma therapy with empathy, care, and respect. Sessions are structured but collaborative, giving you support that is paced around your needs rather than forcing you to move faster than feels safe.

Therapy is confidential, fully online, and designed to help you feel supported while working through difficult experiences.

A Safe and Compassionate Approach

Trauma therapy should never feel like being pushed into the deep end. The focus is on safety, stabilisation, and careful processing, helping you develop confidence before working with distressing memories.

You remain in control of the pace, and therapy is shaped around what feels manageable for you.

Frequently Asked Questions

Do I have to talk about my trauma in detail?

No. EMDR works by processing how the memory feels in the present, not by making you retell every part of what happened. Therapy moves at your pace, and you will not be pushed to share more than feels manageable.

Is online EMDR therapy effective?

Online EMDR therapy can be effective for many people and offers the added comfort and privacy of accessing support from your own space. Suitability can be discussed during your free consultation.

How long does trauma therapy take?

Every person’s experience is different. Many people notice improvement within 6-12 sessions, while others may benefit from longer-term work, especially where there are complex or multiple traumas.

Is therapy suitable if I feel unsafe or overwhelmed?

Yes. Early sessions focus on stabilisation, grounding, and emotional safety before deeper trauma processing begins. You do not need to feel ready to process everything straight away.

Can PTSD symptoms appear years later?

Yes. Trauma symptoms can appear soon after an event or emerge much later, often after reminders, life changes, stress, or new experiences bring old memories or reactions to the surface.

Start Your Healing Journey

You do not have to keep living in survival mode. With the right support, it is possible to process traumatic experiences, reduce distress, and begin feeling safer in your own life again.

Book a free 15-minute consultation to ask questions and see whether online therapy for PTSD and trauma feels like the right next step.

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Why online therapy might work for you

Online therapy is just as effective as in-person sessions, allowing you to receive high-quality support wherever you are. Some additional benefits include:

  • Not having to face the difficulties of travelling to a location if you have health issues or disabilities.
  • It takes less time to fit in a session if you have a lack of spare hours in the day and a busy lifestyle.
  • You won’t have any transport issues or need to pay for parking.
  • Flexibility to work around your work hours and other commitments.

How the booking process works

  • Get in touch via email or phone
  • We’ll agree a good time for your free 15-minute online consultation
  • I’ll send you a link for your phone or via MS Teams, whichever you prefer
  • We ‘meet up’ online on the day and time agreed
  • If you are happy to proceed, we’ll book your first appointment
  • 24 hours before your appointment, I’ll send you a payment link or you can pay via the website here 
  • Our therapy sessions begin!

NICE Guidelines

All of the therapy techniques I use, including EMDR and CBT, are recommended by the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) guidelines. You can find out more about the framework I work within here.

Read more about NICE Guidelines

Reviews

Michelle adapted to my way of understanding... she was very clear and had a wealth of knowledge. She has given me so many tools to help. 

Great support from Michelle, I can't thank her enough. Thank you for getting me back on track. So grateful. I will miss my weekly sessions. Kind regards xxx

Michelle was amazing. I really connected with her and she helped me through my problems and has made a significant change to my life. Very thankful!

I can't speak highly enough of Michelle Woods. I can only imagine your experience of online CBT is largely due to the person you are paired with and I couldn't wish for a better one than Michelle. Thank you for everything.

Michelle was really good at understanding me and helping me with what I have been through. I understand myself better now. I appreciate her help so much.

Michelle has been incredible! I've never found a therapist so empathetic.

I wasn't very hopeful about starting any kind of treatment or therapy but I have been blown away by the success and effects of the EMDR therapy I received. Michelle put me at ease instantly and explained things to me in a way that really helped me to absorb and feel 100 per cent involved in everything we were doing. I couldn't sing higher praises for Michelle and am so very grateful to her.

Michelle Woods was brilliant. She has helped me no end and made life liveable again.

Michelle was lovely and I felt she really cared about my issues. She was very good at addressing those issues too.

Michelle is honestly the best therapist I have ever been to. She is so understanding and listens to my concerns and goes above and beyond with her help. I cannot praise her enough.

Michelle was fantastic, so easy to engage with, even on our first meeting. She was very accommodating with regard to my health issues. All the techniques and helpful tips she has gone over with me have helped in various ways and has improved my depression and given me ways to deal with it. I couldn't recommend her enough and am sad to say goodbye.

Michelle Woods is a remarkable lady. She has transformed my life in the last 20 weeks. It's taken me 14 years to face the trauma that I went through and Michelle took the time to listen, make me feel safe and to support me with every part of the reliving. There are not enough words to thank Michelle for her work alongside me and I will always remember that the reason I got through this was because of her kindness.

Michelle is one of the loveliest people I have ever spoken to! She has been kind, caring and patient with me and I can't thank her enough for everything she has helped me with.

Michelle was the first therapist that I have really clicked with and she helped me understand and process my mental health effectively. Michelle has been amazing and I cannot thank her enough for the help she has given me over the last few months. I honestly couldn't fault her. Michelle, thank you for helping me realise that life isn't all bad and that I can get up and have a happy day despite my mental health. You are amazing and truly helped me figure out my thoughts. Thank you.

How to Contact Me

I offer a free 15-minute consultation to help you decide if my therapy style is right for you.

Please note: I do not provide crisis intervention. If you are in immediate distress, please contact your GP or emergency services.

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