Rewind Therapy
The Rewind Technique is a tried and tested approach for helping people who are experiencing high anxiety conditions such as PTSD, trauma and phobias.
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What is Rewind Therapy?
For many years, severe anxiety based conditions such as phobias, trauma or Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD), were often treated using long and emotionally painful exposure therapy.
Now thankfully, we have access to a more comfortable and effective therapy that can greatly reduce phobic or traumatic symptoms quickly.
The Rewind Technique is a relatively recent development in the field of psychotherapy and is recognised as an effective method for helping people who are experiencing high anxiety conditions. When compared with more traditional psychotherapeutic approaches, Rewind Therapy can often provide rapid relief for people who are experiencing phobia, trauma or PTSD related symptoms.
Based on an early Neuro Linguistic Programming method, the Rewind Technique works by disconnecting the emotional response to the past event(s) from the memory of what happened, enabling the brain to reprocess the information and release the anxiety and trauma.
Rewind Therapy for PTSD, trauma and phobias
When we encounter a situation which we perceive to be dangerous or life threatening, the brain instantly prepares the body for survival action.
Once the situation has passed, the brain processes what has happened by separating our emotional response from our physical experience and storing these in different parts of the brain. This is what enables us to make rational sense of events.
During a traumatic event, the emotional response may be so intense that the memory of the entire event becomes trapped in the emotional centres of the brain, ready to instantly re-activate should a similar event occur in the future. Instead of being transferred to the Neocortex; the part of the brain where memories are stored, the event remains locked in the Amygdala; the part of the brain which is responsible for the ‘fight or flight’ response. Although the original event may have happened some time ago, it can feel as though it is happening in the present.
Escape the cage that trauma locked you in
Since it’s original development in the 1970s, the Rewind Technique has been refined to incorporate dissociation and relaxation, allowing the therapy to be a more comfortable experience.
The Rewind Technique allows the painful or distressing memory to be reprocessed so that it can be transferred from the emotional centre of the brain, to the Neocortex, where it is stored as a memory which is no longer threatening.
One of the benefits of Rewind Therapy is that you do not need to explain every detail of the traumatic event(s) in order for the therapist to work with you. This means that you don’t have to re-live the emotions and events that have caused the current state of anxiety or trauma.
I often use the Rewind Technique in combination with hypnosis, as this allows you to access a deeply relaxed state where you can calmly reprocess memories without triggering the associated traumatic feelings.
"After a few sessions with Vicki, I feel a lot better and can now start looking forward to things again."
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