Iris Kay

I am Consultant EMDR Trauma Therapist and NHS Experience Trauma Therapist with over 20 years NHS Mental Health Experience, accredited Counsellor and Psychotherapist and Supervisor.

Understanding  Psychotherapy and Psychological Treatment

  My experience of online working is considerable, gained through the onset of the Covid Pandemic and I discovered it works really well with advantages such as  no parking fees, time saving and is as efficient as person to person therapy. I am flexible regarding appointments that suit both parties, and happy to accept session by session appointments or block bookings. I look forward to hearing from you by text or phone call. Best wishes Iris iriskay@ntlworld.com

I am Consultant EMDR Trauma Therapist and NHS Experience Trauma Therapist with over 20 years NHS Mental Health Experience, accredited Counsellor and Psychotherapist and Supervisor.

Understanding Psychotherapy and Psychological Treatment

I work in partnership with you by enable you to learn about psycho-education and helpful for you to understand the specific mechanisms that are activated that are causing the problem(s). Using the latest psychological therapy treatments to treat Trauma Memories and Neuropathic Pain for example EMDR therapy; this is a well established and recommended treatment for anxiety disorders, traumatic memories and its proven positive effects on the mind and body symptoms being re-experienced; including flashbacks and Phantom Limb Pain.  Proven by EMDR being listed on the NHS NICE and World Health Organisation Guidelines for treating Trauma. My experience of online working is considerable, gained through the onset of the Covid Pandemic and I discovered it works really well with advantages such as no parking fees, time saving and is as efficient as person to person therapy. I am flexible regarding appointments that suit both parties, and happy to accept session by session appointments or block bookings. I look forward to hearing from you by text or phone call. Best wishes Iris iriskay@ntlworld.com

I now work online (Zoom/WhatsApp) due to Covid and have found from working this way over two years, therapy online is as effective as face to face therapy. This information was gained by positive feed back from clients. 

I am a Consultant EMDR Trauma Practitioner and NHS Practitioner I use EMDR, CBT and other practical therapeutic  interventions  to engage the sensory flight, fight and freeze responses of the the brain and body. Therapy enables the person  to identify the triggers to this defence system ie the fear that triggers the response of fight, fight and freeze that are activated when there is no immediate threat, ie panic, anxiety, anger etc   This can often result in ongoing low mood and repetitive anxious thoughts and feelings, flashbacks that can be helped by an experienced therapist such as myself.. 

• I am currently working effectively on line using Zoom, WhatsApp to keep clients and myself safe from Covid Infections. Offering therapy this way is not detrimental to the process of therapy fro m my experience over two years delivering therapy in this way. 

• My initial session involves providing psycho education about how the brain and body the works in relation to trauma and how this affects our daily life.  To provide knowledge and understanding of how the human system manages trauma and how the Brain and Body interact when facing distressing events to protect ourselves as a mammal species by using sophisticated  neuro network systems within brain and body to protect us from harm. I taking a a life history of upsetting events and how these events relate to our human survival system.

•  Introducing practical techniques to lower distress using self administered proven stabilisation  techniques that are helpful also helpful for ongoing Covid Symptoms.

• Education about Eye Movement Desensitisation Reprocessing (EMDR) Treatment as recommended by NHS Nice Guidelines and the World Health Organisation as an effective treatment for PTSD and used for other psychological effects of trauma, such as panic, depression, flashbacks etc. 

• Sessions can take up to 90 minutes to give you a sense of the time it takes to reprocess information and enable transformational change in which problem emotional learnings are dissolved and symptoms do not reoccur. 
  

Please call me for any additional information and or to book an appointment  call 07775581719.  Regards Iris