{"id":1053,"date":"2024-12-30T20:13:46","date_gmt":"2024-12-30T20:13:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/5in5inc.com\/starr\/profiles\/expert-profile-victoria-britt\/"},"modified":"2025-05-06T19:37:39","modified_gmt":"2025-05-06T19:37:39","slug":"expert-profile-victoria-britt","status":"publish","type":"profiles","link":"https:\/\/5in5inc.com\/starr\/profiles\/expert-profile-victoria-britt\/","title":{"rendered":"Expert Profile Victoria Britt"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Victoria\u2019s Bio:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Victoria Britt has been a clinical social worker and marriage and family therapist for 32 years.\u00a0 She was trained in EMDR in 1994 and joined the EMDR Institute teaching staff in 1995. \u00a0In her full-time practice, she specializes in working with adults who have been abused as children; rape victims, dissociative disorders, PTSD and anxiety disorders. \u00a0Because trauma can have such a devastating effect on the mind\/body system she has sought out different approaches to healing: she is a Somatic Experiencing Practitioner, and a trainer in Thought Field therapy. \u00a0\u00a0Her pro bono work includes seeing victims of domestic violence and treating survivors and family members after the 9\/11 attacks.\u00a0 She also volunteers for EMDR-HAP in the USA. She teaches workshops in EMDR Therapy on a regular basis and is a sought-after case consultant and supervisor.<\/p>\n<p>Victoria co-authored \u201cEvolving Thought Field Therapy: The Clinician\u2019s Handbook of Diagnosis, Treatment Theory and Theory\u201d and has been a contributing editor on several EMDR texts.<\/p>\n<p><strong>According to Victoria, why EMDR Therapy works to improve mental health:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>EMDR Therapy (Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing) was developed by Francine Shapiro, Ph.D. 30 years ago and in that short time has become an intensively researched and deeply respected approach to many psychological issues. \u00a0A basic tenet of EMDR is almost all of these problems can be traced back to traumatic events: not just the more obvious ones like accidents or abuse but ones that we don\u2019t think of as trauma, such as attachment disruptions, medical events, losses, bullying or school traumas. These traumas can alter the course of our lives in subtle and profound ways, affecting our life choices, our beliefs about ourselves and our physical health.<\/p>\n<p>EMDR Therapy offers the opportunity to reprocess these events in a safe environment opening up the client to new possibilities and more adaptive responses to the old events that kept people locked in a negative, repetitive cycles.\u00a0 \u00a0Although originally designed to treat PTSD, EMDR has been found to be extremely valuable in treating a host of disorders such as anxiety, phobia, relational issues, panic disorder, depression and addictive behaviors. \u00a0Using a unique method which includes bi-lateral stimulation, it can resolve matters like recent trauma quickly and with strong long-term effect. \u00a0Hundreds of thousands of people have been treated with EMDR Therapy worldwide: Victoria personally has treated over a thousand in her ever-evolving practice of it and she continues to explore new ways of applying it to her practice.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Eye Movement Desensitization &#038; Reprocessing (EMDR)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":1054,"template":"","meta":[],"class_list":["post-1053","profiles","type-profiles","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/5in5inc.com\/starr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profiles\/1053","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/5in5inc.com\/starr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profiles"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/5in5inc.com\/starr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/profiles"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/5in5inc.com\/starr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1054"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/5in5inc.com\/starr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1053"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}