Mental Training & Coaching Centre provides EMDR to help athletes and others overcome various personal difficulties and dysfunction in sport and other performance settings that are based on underlying past and present negative or traumatic experiences, big or small, that interfere with adaptive functioning, performance and well-being.
Typical reasons to utilize EMDR techniques are undesirable impacts and experiences from performance anxiety, return to sport after (serious) injury, low self-confidence, negative self-image, mental blocks (i.e. Lost Move Syndrome), serious accidents, or other self-deprecating thoughts, feelings and sensations.
Duration for effective EMDR varies, often 3-5 sessions at minimum, following the recommended 8-phase 3-pronged protocol (including introduction, assessment, and resource development). In addition, performance enhancement protocols can be used to transfer learning from reprocessing negative past experiences into well-being and preparation for future performance demands.
EMDR facilitates the resumption of normal information processing and integration. This approach, which targets past experiences, current triggers, and future potential challenges, results in the alleviation of presenting symptoms, a decrease or elimination of distress from disturbing memories, improved view of the self, relief from bodily disturbance, and resolution of present and future anticipated triggers in performance settings.
