EMDR Adelaide

17/09/2025

Cognitive Therapeutic/Interweave Consultation Group

I am running another monthly Cognitive Therapeutic/Interweave Consultation Group starting on Tuesday, 9 December 2025, at 5:30 pm (SA time). The group will run for 10 months and is limited to six practitioners who have completed Level 2/Weekend 2 training with an approved trainer. Each session will include a lecture, case discussion, and practicum. The program consists of 10 sessions in total, with a fee of $600.

For enquiries or to register, please contact me at: khodadad@emdradelaide.com.au

16/09/2025

The QWERTY keyboard wasn’t designed to be fast or logical. It was invented in the 1870s to stop typewriter keys from jamming. The funny thing? Typewriters are long gone, but we’re still using it today.
We do the same in life without realising it. We hold on to old habits and coping patterns that once made sense but don’t actually serve us anymore. Once a system is built, our whole life adapts around it, so change feels hard.
Think about someone who learned as a child to stay quiet to avoid punishment. As an adult, they may still silence themselves — even when it’s safe to speak up. The original reason is gone, but the pattern sticks.

14/09/2025

Feeder memories are earlier experiences that “feed into” the current target memory. If processing stalls, it may be because the system is trying to access those earlier, unresolved events. Identifying and reprocessing the feeder memory often unblocks the work and allows the target memory to shift.

13/09/2025

When processing is blocked or progress is not moving along in EMDR therapy, the practitioner needs to ensure it is not due to factors identified by Shapiro in her writings and trainings, such as incomplete assessment or unresolved feeder memories.

10/09/2025

Human brains have a natural information-processing system that helps us digest experiences, integrate them, and store them in a healthy way.

When this process works well, we gain insight, perspective, and emotional balance. But when something overwhelming happens, the system can get blocked. In the EMDR therapy, AIP model, trauma is understood as an unprocessed memory.

These memories become “frozen in time,” holding the original images, emotions, body sensations, and negative beliefs — as if the event is still happening. That’s why present-day triggers can bring flashbacks, nightmares, or sudden emotional flooding.

EMDR therapy helps unblock the system, so the memory can finally be processed and stored adaptively. It loses its “here and now” intensity and becomes part of the past — where it belongs.

10/09/2025

How the Brain Processes Experiences

1.Normal Processing
Experiences are digested, integrated, and stored in healthy ways → we learn, grow, and move forward. 🌱

2. Trauma (Blocked Processing)
When something overwhelming happens, the system gets stuck. The memory is “frozen in time,” with the same emotions, sensations, and beliefs as if it’s still happening. ⚡

3. EMDR Therapy
Unblocks the system, allowing the memory to process. The charge fades, and the experience moves into the past — where it belongs.

04/09/2025

Who knew moving your eyes back and forth could be such a brain workout? EMDR therapy meets MUSIC :)

Welcome to Part 1 training

22/08/2025

Patience and discipline. Kindness with fairness. Be pleased, yet always open to growth.

12/08/2025

Nothing feels more frightening than the sudden and unpredictable, like losing a loved one or experiencing an unexpected life change. These types of experiences can shatter the world we thought was safe, stable, and familiar.

They break the image we’ve created and carried, along with the dreams of the life we imagined sharing with that person or situation. Sometimes, we may believe nothing and no one could ever give us that imagined life again.

EMDR therapy may work through grief. It helps to ease emotional pain, reshape the way we hold these images, and open a path toward living meaningfully again, while still honouring the love and connection that was lost.

09/08/2025

Ethan Kross is an American experimental psychologist, neuroscientist and writer, who specializes in emotion regulation. He is a professor of psychology and management at the University of Michigan and director of the Emotion & Self Control Laboratory.

Your inner voice is a powerful tool for self-reflection and planning, but it can also trap you in negative thought loops — “chatter,” as psychologist and neu...

09/08/2025

An Exercise to Decrease Negative Self-Talk by Michael Yapko, PhD

When a client suffers from impostor syndrome, there is often a gap between how others perceive them . . .and how they perceive themselves.This gap is what fu...

09/08/2025

The podcast "Science Behind the Therapy explores the latest clinical research and practical applications of EMDR therapy hosted by Andrew M. Leeds, PhD"