Meeting at the Precipice: Creative Visualization in the Treatment of Trauma

Heather brings guided visualization and EMDR into a psychoanalytic frame. The paper explores imagination, agency, and ways of approaching childhood trauma with the therapist as an accompanying presence.

Inside the clinical work

The paper considers how creative visualization and EMDR can support psychoanalytic work with trauma. Attention to imagination and the body remains connected to the therapeutic relationship, with the therapist accompanying the patient as difficult experience becomes more approachable.