29/04/2026
Kerime is the Founder of Hue Therapy and has just trained in EMDR. Here are some of her reflections:
I have always worked in the space between clinical and what people loosely call “woo woo”… what I know they mean is nature. And if I am honest, I have felt the tension.
EMDR is structured. Protocol-led. Measurable. It asks me to track targets, assess SUD levels, and follow phases carefully. It is disciplined work. Contained. Precise. Evidence based. And I value that deeply. Structure protects the nervous system. Structure creates safety.
But I also sit with people in ways that are not always linear or conscious. I listen for symbolism, for intuition, and for the way someone’s body shifts when they speak about nature, ancestry, meaning, or something larger than themselves.
In transpersonal work, I have seen how healing is not only about desensitising a memory. It is about integration, identity, and a reorientation to self, and sometimes to something beyond self.
There can be an internal conflict in holding both. The clinical world can look at spirituality and say, “Where is the evidence?” The spiritual world can look at protocol and say, “Where is the soul?” As a psychotherapist, I do not experience them as opposites.
EMDR helps the nervous system complete what was frozen in time. It gives the body what it did not get: safety, movement, and reprocessing. But once the charge softens, something else often emerges: grief, meaning, a shift in identity, and a deeper question about who someone is now.
That is where intuition, presence, and transpersonal awareness become essential. Without structure, work can become ungrounded. Without depth, work can become mechanical.
For me, the integrity is in the integration. Clinical enough to protect. Intuitive enough to listen. Grounded enough to regulate. Open enough to honour mystery.
I do not sit above clients as an expert fixing symptoms. I sit with them, nervous system to nervous system, as a witness, holding both science of being human and the soul.
And I have learned that the real healing rarely belongs fully to either camp. It lives in the space between. Between birth and death is being ALIVE. – (Hue) Therapy