In the archive you will find the blog texts of Mindroot experts.
The texts are divided into three parts: About EMDR These blogtexts deal with the theoretical background and application areas of EMDR. These blogs are numbered and should be read in order from the first. The second part, Share Your Story, includes writings that deal with the EMDR treatment or coaching of a specific client who appears anonymously here. Each client has given permission to publish their story. Often this involves a word-for-word referral from the client’s EMDR session.
These blog posts, like other blog posts on our blog, aim to raise awareness of EMDR therapy and its applications. Customers are not identifiable from the texts. The client's experiences can be commented on objectively and I can be asked questions about the implementation of the therapy. I would like to collectively thank all my customers who contributed to the "share your story" blog. I find each of them strong and courageous, and I am infinitely grateful to them for allowing others to join us on our journey together.
All questions and feedback posted to blogs are read through before they are published.
PS. Some of the articles are in Finnish.
Psychotherapy is a topic that is nowadays very talked about publicly. Many public figures have reported attending therapy. Attending therapy is no longer embarrassing but is part of the health care and growth of a self-caring person.
In this blog post, I will present the eight steps of EMDR therapy. I will refer to these steps in my future writings when describing therapy work. Eye movement therapy always uses a specific, precisely defined protocol, i.e., a treatment practice that proceeds in stages.
According to the School Health Survey by the Finnish Institute for Health and Welfare, about 6% of Finnish 8th and 9th graders experience bullying or violence at school at least once a week.
Last July, U.S. Olympic team superstar Simone Biles left the Tokyo Olympics team competition for psychological reasons. The mental pressures on the athletes, which had become too great, became familiar to everyone who followed the sport as the case was reported.
On Thursday, the Finnish government submitted to Parliament a draft HE 13/2022 on legislation on sexual offenses, which states that the definition of rape in the Penal Code will be changed to focus on consent and the lack thereof.
Serious and prolonged school bullying often causes particular challenges to a bullied person’s self-esteem and mental health even in adulthood. Depression, anxiety disorder, panic disorder, emotional coldness, evasive attachment style, and difficulty engaging in long-term relationships are common experiences among bullied.
Last year is likely to be a year in the world of sports that changed the way top athletes talk about their mental health. Naomi Osaka, Simone Biles and Lewis Hamilton, among others, spoke publicly about their mental challenges.
Silver won or lost is a familiar pair of concepts from sports that refers to whether an athlete or a sports team failed in the final (lost silver) or performed well (won silver).
In this blog post, I will go through the research information that has been accumulated so far in the field of psychology on how the use of social media during competition affects the performance of elite athletes.
Olen tehnyt psyykkistä valmennusta ja psykoterapiaa EMDR-menetelmällä yli kymmenen vuoden ajan useiden urheilijoiden ja esiintyvän taiteen alojen ammattilaisten kanssa. Hiljattain minulta kysyttiin, miten vastoinkäymisiä kilpailusuorituksen
Keskustelin hiljattain kilpailuun valmistautuvan ammattiurheilijan kanssa huippusuorituksista ja flow-tilasta. Monella kilpailuun valmistautuvalla urheilijalla juolahtaa mielessä toive siitä, että juuri kilpailutilanteessa hän kykenisi huippusuoritukseen, jossa toiminta
Joulu on lähestymässä ja moni asiakkaani on tällä viikolla pohtinut sen viettotapoja. Pieni varoituksen sana tästä blogi tekstistäni: se ei ole omiaan herättämään iloista ja
In Finland, approximately one in three women has experienced physical or sexual violence in a relationship (European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights, 2014).
Figure skating is often associated with pressures related to both appearance and physique. According to a sports federation survey, 53% of 438 skaters had experienced pressure related to their appearance in connection with skating.
Many people who come to my office because of relationship difficulties say that they recognize codependency in themselves, in which a person lives in a poorly functioning relationship and focuses instead of himself or herself on the life, problems and needs of the other.
The concept of compassion fatigue is used to describe a secondary post-traumatic stress response, especially in helper work. It is an emotional state of exhaustion caused by repeated exposure to stimuli that cause sadness and anxiety, as well as an empathic interaction with a person in crisis.
With the help of EMDR therapy, even very old memories can be worked on. In this blog post, with my client's permission, I will describe a war-related memory of theirs from 1944. It is thus 78 years old.
A parent's drug addiction causes various psychological symptoms for many children. In families where the parent relies too much on the bottle, the children and their needs are often neglected.
Workplace violence refers to an event where a person is abused, verbally insulted or threatened in a situation related to their work. Approximately six percent of Finns experience threats or physical violence at their workplace or in their work duties every year.
A 30-year-old woman (I'll call her Leena here) came to my reception, and told me that she had had symptoms of depression and anxiety since she was young, but the psychotherapeutic treatment started in her teens had stopped when she became an adult.
Over the past year, I have had several people as clients who have recognized the problem of narcissism in themselves, which has led to challenges in their close relationships.
A few months ago, my office was visited by a 43-year-old man (I call him Mikko here) who had started playing football at the age of eight. For him, it was a dear hobby for which he spent a lot of time and he also served as a coach for juniors.
Infidelity is one of the most significant stressors in a relationship and a common cause of marital divorce or cohabitational separation.
The risk of mental stress and morbidity for healthcare professionals working in the ever-worsening and prolonged coronavirus crisis is considerable. Together with my colleagues, I have raised the issue in professional medical publications over the past year.
The case covered here is presented with the permission of the person in question, as always in my blogs. This person (I call her Sanna here) came to my office for EMDR therapy with a referral from a psychiatrist for her to be able to address the underlying factors of her sleeping difficulties, recurring nightmares, motoric restlessness, and depression.
Venäjän armeijan sotilaiden tekemistä ukrainalaisten siviilien raiskauksista on puhuttu paljon. Hiljattain Helsingin Sanomat julkaisi aiheesta artikkelin (https://www.hs.fi/kuukausiliite/art-2000009200754.html), jonka mukaan näiden rikosten tutkinta on hyvin vaikeata,
Tunnustuksella on rikosasiassa lähtökohtaisesti vahva todistusvoima eikä sitä syyttä ole kutsuttu todisteiden kuningattareksi. Osa tunnustuksista on kuitenkin vääriä ja niiden havaitseminen on tärkeätä, jotta vääriltä
Perhe- tai rikosoikeudellinen prosessi edessä ja pitäisi löytää hyvä oikeudellinen avustaja, mutta et tiedä mistä etsiä. Kyselet tutuilta ja keskustelufoorumeilta, ja koitat soittaa joillekin, joiden
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