Intensive EMDR peer support group: Guest Tom Tomaszewski

Organized by Dr. Sarah Butler and the intensive therapy peer support group.

This session will be an opportunity to discuss with peers the pros and cons of intensive EMDR and explore different ways of working. This is an opportunity to get up to date with what your peers are doing and how they are progressing with their practice.

About Tom

I work in private practice, offering short- and long-term psychotherapy usually involving EMDR.

I am an accredited psychoanalytic psychotherapist, an EMDR Europe Consultant, and hold a clinical masters degree. I was for some time an honorary psychotherapist at St Martin’s hospital in Canterbury working with people suffering from psychosis, usually seeing them in their own homes. For almost ten years I worked at Mandy Saligari’s clinic, Charter: for several years I was clinical manager and senior clinician. I am a group psychotherapist, and have worked with couples and families. I specialise in working with people who have problems relating to addiction, compulsion and obsession.

Psychoanalytically my work responds to Freud, Bion, Eigen, Ogden and Stern. I'm interested in dreams and how they offer ways of thinking about the unthinkable (which is a word I use to describe traumatic experience), and thoughts about reading and writing which correspond to listening and speaking. I have a hack's appreciation of Derrida.

Psychotherapy and EMDR can as easily, as effectively, happen under a tree in the rain, during a telephone conversation or over a Zoom link as it might in a consulting room. Most work falls apart when it threatens the psychotherapist's sense of security or fails to respect the client's.

Tom Tomaszewski BA (Hons), Grad Cert (Group Analysis), PGCE, PGDip (Psychotherapy Studies), MClinSci, UKCP Reg No. 2011164925. EMDR Europe Accredited Practitioner.