Integral Eye Movement Therapy

IEMT works by addressing common patterns that keep emotional distress in place. IEMT uses guided eye movements to reprocess emotional imprints, reducing the intensity of what a person ‘feels’ about themselves, another person or a situation.

IEMT is used to improve emotional resilience, build self-worth, confidence and reduce feelings of stress and overwhelms. A typical outcome of IEMT therapy treatments is to bring about change in behavioural patterns and emotional triggers, through reducing negative emotions associated with a memory. IEMT is a very suitable therapy for trauma-related issues, unwanted habits and phobias, anxiety, depression and limiting beliefs.

IEMT can help bring about rapid change, facilitating more helpful ways of thinking about self, situations and others. IEMT is often used as an element of wider integrative therapies and ‘works’ by addressing, “how did this person learn to be the way they are?” Clients typically report noticing significant change in the “way I am” after just a few sessions.

“Initially a bit sceptical, I’m now just incredibly grateful. It worked” (client 2025)

More about IEMT

Integral eye movement therapy (IEMT) is a psychotherapy model that aims to reduce intense negative emotional states. To give a simple example, if you have experienced something that every time you think about it the effect causes you to have a ‘bad’ response physically, emotionally or both, IEMT can be used to reduce your reaction to what has become an imprinted negative emotional response.

Negative emotional imprinting occurs when a person experiences an event with high intensity emotional distress, which the brain stores as an emotionally charged memory. From then on, whenever that memory is accessed it triggers the associated negative emotions (the brain’s logic prompting you to ‘run’ from the danger as fast as possible). This is the brain logic protecting you, but of course the brain’s response can be flawed. In scientific speak, what happens in a high intensity emotional response is that the hippocampus area of the brain registers a memory that is highly associated with a ‘fight or flight’ response from the amygdala.

IEMT also works with a person’s identify, bringing about helpful resolutions in areas where someone has become ‘stuck’ due to a past negative experience, influencing the way they are now.