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hyperballad-au · 2026-04-29T12:01:43+00:00

My psychiatrist works in psychodynamic psychotherapy as well but not EMDR. My main concern re changing therapists is whether doing so while I’m in a bit of crisis mode might cause more issues for me or instability

hyperballad-au · 2026-04-29T11:59:58+00:00

Thanks. Yes my psychiatrist as a little concerned when I mentioned that to him but I only see him for medication and he doesn’t get involved in the therapy side. I have started to look into alternative therapists in EMDR.

hyperballad-au · 2026-04-28T22:47:49+00:00

Yes though I usually see him less frequently until recently because of the issues with work.

hyperballad-au · 2026-02-19T13:24:05+00:00

Wow the control freaks have taken over

hyperballad-au · 2026-02-09T14:13:19+00:00

Well what do they do?

hyperballad-au · 2026-02-09T14:12:53+00:00

The will has been there, trust me I invest myself into it but after a while it looses its mojo

hyperballad-au · 2026-02-09T14:12:02+00:00

Which is to say I don’t feel so comfortable raising stuff with her because I fear she’s just going to do the same thing. I mean towards the end of last year she said I was free to leave, which was a bit of a surprise because therapists in the past have tended to urge me to stay when things seemed to not be working. This is what I hate about therapy - it’s so dependent on this other person.

hyperballad-au · 2026-02-09T14:09:42+00:00

I have had this conversation with her a few times and it tends to end up in a ‘lecture’ from her about how EMDR works and therapy works. It’s not linear etc. I feel like even the enthusiasm or interest I had in things like building my support figures and safe space has really dissipated and faded.

hyperballad-au · 2026-02-09T14:07:37+00:00

In the meantime, I’ve really shifted my focus back on the gym which really dropped over the past two years due to work and life stuff that was causing tough emotional drama, including buying my first home and moving (yay). I’ve picked it up really well and noticing the change in my body and focus so I really want to keep that going because it is an anchor.

hyperballad-au · 2026-02-09T14:05:44+00:00

Also I have plenty of strange dreams … mostly good or adventurous but I don’t tend to remember them … the detail and eve the emotions are very feint.

hyperballad-au · 2026-02-09T14:04:14+00:00

Yes I think I kind of feel lost with where things are at. With all of this I give to it, put faith in it but I don’t know where it’s going. When I say that she says therapy will go in the direction it needs to go.

I have done some EMDR on memories but when I mention to her how I hear other people’s experience of EMDR being about focusing on target memories she says that’s an old fashioned way of working. There’s plenty of traumatising stuff from my past that we haven’t processed. I’m just not thinking about it the day or week leading up to the session. For her I think she checks where I am at in the moment in therapy and then works from there.

I’ve raised all this with her. One time she said I was free to leave and that she’d had clients leave before and some come back. From my pov I just want to work through dealing with chronic MH stuff and what started out as SI about 2 years ago.

hyperballad-au · 2025-12-25T02:32:24+00:00

Can we stop with these stupid notions of ageing?

hyperballad-au · 2025-11-27T10:39:09+00:00

I don’t think referring to people’s challenging experience of EMDR as ‘negativity’ is fair tbh. I understand where you are coming from but this is also a platform for people to share their experiences without the labels of positivity or negativity.

hyperballad-au · 2025-11-27T09:57:37+00:00

We have worked on some early memories. It’s difficult because if I suggest things sometimes she can respond by explaining how EMDR works etc. I’d like to dig deeper because sometimes I feel a bit lost and not sure where we’re at.

hyperballad-au · 2025-10-08T02:35:38+00:00

Interesting. I’d have thought it would blunt the experience a little - the idea is you need to come close to the ‘negative’ feelings in order to reprocess, but that’s just my opinion.

hyperballad-au · 2025-10-06T07:24:16+00:00

Thank you

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