WHAT IS BWRT?
Brain Working Recursive Therapy
Terrence Watts– the leading British therapist who developed BWRT – defines it as an approach grounded in science. Brain Working Recursive Therapy uses natural psychological processes to recondition neural pathways in the brain that lead to unwanted behaviour.
By stopping and rerouting the brain’s natural response to anything traumatic or not understood in its tracks, BWRT can prevent the negative outward symptoms of conditions such as in depression and anxiety.
It is a safe and non-invasive therapy that uses no devices, advanced technologies or medication, but simply involves a patient and a therapist talking – much like traditional therapy.
WHAT IS TRE?
Tension, Stress & Trauma Release
TRE® is a simple, self-empowering technique that activates our bodies’ instinctive tremor mechanism in a safe and controlled way. Once activated, these neurogenic tremors help release the build-up of stress, anxiety, physical tension or emotional pain that accumulates in our body from stressful or traumatic life experiences.
You can find additional info here: https://www.integralhealth.co.za/tre/introduction/what-is-tre/
WHAT IS EMI?
Eye Movement Integration Therapy
Every day we receive information through our eyes, ears, nose, mouth and skin, which informs the brain about ourselves and our environment.
EMI gives the brain another chance to do, what it usually does with non-traumatic information during sleep. It accesses and processes all the information about our experiences and “defrags” this during sleep, filing it into past tense memory.
During EMI we use slow, smooth pursuit eye movements (SPEM) across the entire visual field of the person. Through these SPEM movements the brain can scan itself and collect all the relevant information about the traumatic experience.
In this process the brain collects all the pieces of the puzzle that remained scattered in the different brain regions, and brings it into an integrated whole, also creating a more complete narrative, that is now also connected to our logical thinking brain. In this way the memory can be moved to past tense and be integrated with new meaning.
The result is that the triggers are not triggers anymore and the incident is just a distant memory.
When can EMI be used?
EMI is safe can be used successfully on children as young as 4 years old.
EMI can be used to de-activate any and all traumatic memories. It can be used for a single traumatic incident and for more complex trauma such as experiences that continued over many years.
EMI has successfully been used with:
– Phobias
– Physical, emotional or sexual abuse and violence
– Grief
– Anxiety and panic attacks
– Any form of accident
– Burn out
– Psychological aspects of illness
– Traumatic medical procedures.