Norton Psychology
EMDR Harley Street
EMDR Therapy & EMDR Intensives for Trauma, Anxiety & Burnout
EMDR london Therapy
Process the past, feel calmer, more balanced and in control of life
07355 264221
Specialist EMDR therapy and intensives for people who are used to holding everything together while struggling inside with anxiety, burnout, trauma-linked stress or emotional disconnection.
“If something from the past is still fuelling anxiety, replaying in your mind, or holding you back from the life you want, EMDR can shift how it’s held so it no longer has the same pull on you, old patterns shift and you can feel like yourself again.”
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Victoria Norton - MSc, BSc, DipIP, DipCBH, EMDR
Relational Psychodynamic Psychologist • Cognitive Behavioural Hypnotherapist • EMDR Therapist • Executive well-being Coach • Associate Lecturer • Digital Health Content Consultant
Past experiences can shape beliefs, nervous-system responses, attachment patterns, self-worth, expectations and how someone responds to life now.
Eye Movement Desensitisation and Reprocessing (EMDR), is a powerful, evidence-based therapy that helps the brain reprocess distressing memories so they no longer carry the same emotional weight. By focusing on how memories are processed and stored, EMDR can help reduce the intensity of difficult emotions, body responses and internalised beliefs, allowing you to feel calmer, clearer and more like yourself again.
It is recommended by the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence for trauma and PTSD, and is also widely used to support anxiety and depression linked to past experiences. As processing takes place, distress can reduce and more adaptive, positive beliefs can begin to strengthen.
For single-incident trauma, meaningful improvement can sometimes occur within a relatively short number of sessions.
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Access & Target
Together we identify the core memories, thoughts & body sensations that are keeping you stuck.
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Bilateral Stimulation
EMDR supports natural REM-like processing, helping the brain reprocess and store distressing memories so they become less reactive and less likely to trigger flashbacks, dissociation, anxiety, distress or overwhelm.
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Integration & Relief
As processing completes, you may experience relief, a new perspective, and a greater sense of control and emotional safety.
If you’re experiencing burnout, emotional disconnection, anxiety, depression or trauma-linked stress that is affecting your performance, relationships and sense of self, you are not alone.
Many people silently struggle on the inside while appearing successful, confident and in control. But when the struggle becomes too much, what once worked no longer does. You may find you can no longer mask how you feel, keep pushing through, or settle for a life that feels disconnected from who you really are.
This may be the point to stop carrying it alone, reach out for support, and begin addressing what is no longer working so you can feel calmer, happier, more balanced and more like yourself again.
Neurodiversity-affirming support is also available for clients with ADHD or autistic traits, particularly where these intersect with burnout, anxiety, trauma or emotional overwhelm.
About Victoria Norton
Based in Harley Street, Bloomsbury , Central London & Online I offer Specialist EMDR therapy and EMDR intensives for high-functioning professionals and individuals whose anxiety, burnout, trauma-linked stress, ADHD or emotional disconnection is affecting their performance, relationships and sense of self.
I have extensive experience across the NHS, private practice, and charitable sectors and work within an integrative framework that brings together EMDR, psychotherapy, somantic therapy, hypnotherapy, and therapeutic coaching, tailored to each individual.
This approach is uniquely positioned to support deep and lasting change by addressing not only current symptoms, but also the underlying beliefs and patterns that trauma, anxiety, or depression can create over time.
As a neurodivergent person myself, I bring an awareness of how differently we can each experience and move through the world. Alongside my specialist work in trauma, anxiety and emotional disconnection, I aim to meet each person where they are and support them to reconnect with their strengths, direction and full potential.
Call: 07355 264221
Email: victoria@nortonpsyhology.com
Explore my wider work
Alongside specialist EMDR therapy and intensives, I also offer integrative psychotherapy, hypnotherapy and therapeutic coaching through Norton Psychology.
How does EMDR Therapy work
Traumatic or overwhelming experiences, thoughts or beliefs can sometimes become “stuck” in the nervous system, continuing to affect how you feel, think and respond long after the event has passed.
EMDR uses a structured protocol to help the brain access, reprocess and integrate these experiences, so they can be filed and no longer feel as active, overwhelming or defining in the present.
1. When experiences stay present or “unfiled”
Sometimes distressing experiences are not fully processed.
It can be like a memory reaching the library desk but never being properly stamped, sorted and filed away. Instead, it remains in the pile easily picked up again by stress, relationships, pressure or reminders in daily life.
2. Why it keeps being triggered
When this happens, the past can continue to feel emotionally present.
You may logically know something is over, yet still feel the anxiety, fear, shame, sadness, body response or belief as if it is happening now.
3. How EMDR supports processing
EMDR gives the brain a structured way to return to these experiences, process what was too much at the time, and file the memory in a healthier way. The memory is not erased, but it can become less emotionally charged, so it no longer has the same pull over how you feel, think, behave or relate.
Weekly EMDR Sessions
Structured support at a pace that works for you.
Ideal if you are managing work, life and healing - steady, consistent progress over a course of sessions designed around your individualised treatment plan.
From £230 per 75-minute session
EMDR Intensives
Two-Day EMDR Intensives
A focused 8–12 hour EMDR programme designed to help you make meaningful progress in a shorter timeframe. This immersive format allows us to go deeper, build momentum, and work through key material without the stop-start rhythm of weekly therapy. Bespoke and retreat-style options available.
From £1,650
Rather than repeatedly analysing the past, EMDR helps the brain process and file it allowing you to move forward with greater calm, clarity and emotional stability.
EMDR Therapy In London & Online
EMDR Therapy Intensives in London & Online
What is included in the Intensives:
*Sample programme
Assessment and Preparation:
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Inital consulation to determine suitability and the most appropriate approach.
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A pre-intensive session to clarify goals, explore your history, experiences, and priorities to work on.
Personalised treatment plan:
Tailored to match your specific experiences, triggers and desired outcome to ensure maximum effectiveness.
EMDR Therapy & guided processing
Body based integration & grounding
Follow-Up Review Session:
A post-intensive session to support integration and next steps.
Available in Harley Street • Bloomsbury • Central London • Online
Clinical Psychology Formulation Report- Optional
A comprehensive personalised psychological assessment and formulation report bringing together your history, patterns, triggers, current difficulties, and their impact.
This offers a deeper understanding of how past experiences may be shaping present challenges, while providing a clear clinical framework to support treatment.
Perfect for personal clarity or for sharing with other healthcare professionals.
Retreat style EMDR Therapy Intensives - London, UK and Europe
Space away from everyday demands, in a calm and supportive setting, for deeper processing, focused transformation, and lasting change.
EMDR for Trauma, Anxiety & Burnout London & Online
EMDR can support high-functioning individuals and professionals who appear to be coping, but are carrying the weight of anxiety, trauma-linked stress, burnout, emotional disconnection, or patterns that talking alone has not been able to shift.
EMDR for Anxiety, Depression & Emotional Overwhelm
EMDR can help when worry, low mood, self-doubt or emotional overwhelm keep you stuck in unhelpful patterns, behaviours and beliefs.
This may show up as overthinking, panic, people-pleasing, avoidance, shame, perfectionism, low confidence, irritability, sleep disturbance, or difficulty switching off.
EMDR for Trauma & PTSD/C-PTSD
EMDR is widely used to support people affected by trauma, PTSD and emotionally distressing experiences that continue to feel unresolved.
This may include childhood experiences, relationship trauma, loss, rejection, failure, humiliation, bullying, medical trauma, or events that still feel emotionally charged in the present.
EMDR forBurnout & Emotional Disconnection
EMDR can support people who look like they are coping, but feel numb or overwhelmed. feel emotionally shut down, exhausted, disconnected or unable to keep functioning in the way they used to.
This may show up as numbness, detachment, loss of motivation, relationship strain, pressure to perform, difficulty relaxing, emotional reactivity, or feeling disconnected from yourself and others.
EMDR works with the deeper experiences and emotional responses that may be driving these patterns, so they no longer have the same pull over how you feel, think, behave or relate.
EMDR Evidence & credibility
EMDR is supported by a substantial and steadily growing body of research. Although it is most strongly established in the treatment of trauma and PTSD, studies have also explored its effectiveness more broadly in relation to depression, obsessive-compulsive difficulties, and pain-related distress.
Research by Carletto et al. (2017) highlighted promising findings for depression, Nazari et al. (2011) reported encouraging results in obsessive-compulsive disorder, and de Roos et al. (2010) demonstrated its potential relevance in pain-related presentations.
EMDR is recommended by the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) as a trauma-focused psychological treatment for adults with PTSD. NICE guidance also recognises that PTSD can present with symptoms such as anxiety, hyperarousal, avoidance, emotional numbing, dissociation and relationship difficulties.
History of EMDR
Developed by psychologist Francine Shapiro in the late 1980s, EMDR has become one of the most established and widely respected therapeutic approaches for working with trauma and distressing life experiences.
Supported by a strong and growing evidence base, it is recognised within mainstream clinical practice and recommended in guidance from the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) for the treatment of trauma.
EMDR is now used across both NHS and private settings as a credible, effective approach for helping people work through the lasting effects of overwhelming experiences.
A Way Forward
At some point, many people realise they no longer want the past to continue shaping how they feel, think, or live.
If that moment has arrived for you, EMDR therapy may offer the opportunity to process what has been carried for too long and begin moving forward.
Contact me for an informal chat about how I can help you move forward and finally step into the life you deserve, where balance, success, purpose, and happiness align.
“ I understood my past, but I still felt stuck.
I’d had therapy before and could make sense of things, but the same patterns kept showing up. EMDR felt different. It was more focused and didn’t rely on going over everything again and again.
Over time, the emotional pull of certain experiences just… reduced. I feel calmer, clearer, and less caught in the same reactions. ”
Adam,*
*All testimonials are anonymised to protect client confidentiality.
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