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DUO Services - DUO IMAGO EMDR Therapy & DUO Training

DUO IMAGO EMDR is a couples therapy that incorporates individual therapeutic techniques to examine the issues that could be underlying the recurring issues in relationship. This helps to cut through any 'stuckness' that you may be experiencing in your relationship. Welcome, I am Emma Heaney-Yeatts and I established mybestme in 2016. The mybestme logo represents the fundamentals of wellbeing: physical (tinana), social (whānau), mental/emotional (hinengaro), and spiritual (wairua) health. DUO represents the intertwining of two people, and two therapies in one. I am an accredited practitioner of both EMDR and IMAGO, and an EMDR Consultant in Training. I also have experience in EMDR Group-based techniques (G-TEP and R-TEP). My experience working with couples, individuals and groups inspired me to create DUO. DUO combines both solo and group-based EMDR techniques with IMAGO Relationships Therapy techniques. I has assisted on several Getting the Love you Want workshops for couples, and woven some of these concepts into DUO too. If you're a practitioner and want to learn DUO see here.
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DUO IMAGO EMDR Therapy for couples

DUO - attend together

Ideally you come to each session together. Your plan will likely include individual EMDR sessions for each of you at a time, prior to beginning the DUO programme. This helps bonding, understanding, and empathy between you as a couple.

DUO - IMAGO & EMDR

DUO IMAGO EMDR includes your own workbook, which brings together EMDR techniques suited for a small group format, AND worksheets to learn the concepts of IMAGO and the dialogues too.
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DUO - support each other

Whether you are initially undertaking some individual sessions or you have started the DUO workbook - you will usually both be present in the room. It is your choice about how you want your partner to support you, which may simply be their presence.

DUO - practice together

The objective of the programme is to come to a place where you feel confident to continue the IMAGO communication dialogues at home. This is facilitated by shifting the stuckness that was flaring up in your relationship to begin with.

While wounding occurs in relationship - so too does healing

DUO focuses on relieving you of the trauma that has likely been caused in a past relationship (with caregivers, siblings, partners), and which is still triggering you in your current relationship. This leaves you feeling at a stuck point or in a power struggle with your partner, and often the desire to return to the old days of romance of and excitement when you first met. Although DUO couldn't promise that, it can help you grow into a mature love kind of space instead.
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