When news happens, text LT and your photos and videos to 80360.
Or contact us by email or phone. Innovative trauma therapy on
offer to East Lancashire children TRAUMATIC experiences could be
erased from the minds of East Lancashire children using an
innovative therapy. Clinical psychologists at the Lancashire
Care NHS Foundation Trust have been trained to offer EMDR -
which stands for Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing.
The technique is used to deliver therapy to help children who
are experiencing emotional difficulties such as phobias, anxiety
and chronic pain. When a child is traumatised they can
experience strong emotions which are thought to overwhelm the
brain. In some cases they can re-experience what they saw,
heard, smelt, tasted or felt, which can be very intense. EMDR,
which was developed by an American clinical psychologist in the
1980s, works by alternating left-right stimulation of the brain
with eye movements, sounds or taps which has been found to
stimulate the frozen or blocked info