Rebecca Saunders (00:03.97)
Hello and welcome to the EMDR Doctor podcast. My name is Dr. Caroline Lloyd. I'm a mental health GP and accredited EMDR practitioner in Melbourne, Australia. So I thought for this first podcast in the series, I would share some information about myself and for my reasons for starting my podcast.
On a personal front, I'm a GP of some 30 plus years experience. I won't go into the details there. I'm a mum of grown children and a dog mum to Richard, my rescue greyhound. I work in Elstenwick in my private EMDR counselling practice and I also admit women to the Cabrini Women's Mental Health Centre for EMDR intensive inpatient treatment.
where they have a short stay of nine or 10 days or so. And we do probably five sessions of EMDR together, which can really be a life -changing experience for many of them. I also do EMDR intensives in my private practice just across the road. And I also hold EMDR groups, both for inpatients and also for outpatients. And those ones are done online.
And the idea of this is to make EMDR more accessible to a greater number of people. So I'll be talking about EMDR in the group setting in an episode coming soon. So this podcast is designed to demystify EMDR and help you to decide how it can help you in your life. I want to share my knowledge about EMDR, trauma and the brain.
I love to talk about EMDR and I do so endlessly with my colleagues and my friends and random people in the supermarket. So this podcast gives me a license to chat about my favorite things to a wider audience. So I will be sharing with you all the things that I wish that my clients knew before they started EMDR or maybe the things that they wish they knew before they started.
Rebecca Saunders (02:08.556)
So when I did my very first EMDR training, I experienced for myself firsthand how EMDR can change how I experienced my difficult memories. And I've had a therapist that I see on and off since I did my training originally. And I've noticed since then how EMDR has changed not only my difficult memories, but it's changed my relationships and made me a more patient person.
And it's allowed me to connect more deeply with who I am. So since my first experience of EMDR and starting practicing EMDR with my clients, I have become a bit addicted to providing EMDR for my clients. So I just love witnessing how people can change right in front of me, how their brains can adapt given the right circumstances and
I love assisting them to resolve those experiences which previously felt so distressing that they couldn't even touch them. And what EMDR does is just allows those really difficult memories to become just something that happened in the past. And yes, it was bad, but it can be in the past now. So I love my work and I finish every day feeling energized and excited by the improvements that I see in my clients. And I want this for you.
So with the podcast to start with, I will be covering off on the basics and all the frequently asked questions. And then a bit later in the series, I'll be asking some guests on to share their experience with EMDR and discussing some more general mental health issues, medications, diagnoses and that sort of thing. So if you have a question that you'd like answered on the podcast, please feel free to email
And I'll be happy to do some Q and A sessions on the podcast. And please know that everything I say is general information only and does not constitute individual advice. So please see your doctor or your therapist for specific advice that is tailored more for you. So I'm really happy to be able to share my knowledge about EMDR with you. And I look forward to speaking to you soon. Thanks for joining me today. Bye for
