The Rewind Technique

The Rewind Technique is a superb way of addressing and reducing the strong emotions that we feel linked to traumatic events. It is a non-intrusive, safe and highly effective psychological method for de-traumatising people, and it can also be used for removing phobias

I use the Human Givens method as it is a powerful and effective tool to separate the emotions that we feel from the event that we have suffered.

Talking therapies will not usually have a positive effect on trauma. What we need to do is unhook the emotion from the memory of what happened. Only when that takes place are we really able to process the event as a past memory.

Being safe, quick and painless, the Rewind technique has the advantage of being non-voyeuristic thus intimate or painfully upsetting details do not have to be made public. What you choose to share about your experience is therefore completely up to you. The healing work can still take place.

The process is done while relaxed and at ease. We then access your wonderful imagination to work through the memory as though it is a film, running forwards and backwards in a calm and dissociated state. The film begins at a point before the trauma occurred and ends at a point at which the trauma is over.

It is incredibly effective and healing.

If the feared situation is one that will possibly be approached again in the future such as having a baby, driving a car or using the tube — the person is asked, while still relaxed, to visualise themselves now doing this confidently.