EMDR and Psychotherapy in Malvern and online across the UK, dedicated to your healing and growth.
Hello, I'm Diana
As a Registered and Accredited member of the BACP and an EMDR Europe Accredited Practitioner, I provide a safe, confidential space where you can bring whatever you are facing. I firmly believe that no one should have to figure everything out alone. In our work together, we will learn to listen to your body and honor what your nervous system is carrying. By exploring all the different ‘pots’ of your life, we can build a deeper awareness of what is happening beneath the surface. This increased understanding empowers you to make choices and positive changes that feel truly meaningful to you. I work individually with both adults and older teens.
As an accredited practitioner, I bring a deep blend of rigorous postgraduate training, extensive clinical experience, and the highest standards of ethical practice to my trauma therapy work.
My specialism in EMDR and trauma isn’t just built on advanced professional assessment and clinical skill—it is also shaped by my own personal experience of EMDR therapy. This gives me a unique, firsthand understanding of the healing journey, allowing me to guide you with both deep clinical expertise and authentic empathy.
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BA (QTS) Hons First
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Level 4 CPCAB Diploma in Therapeutic Counselling
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Level 5 CPCAB Certificate Counselling Children and Young People
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Level 6 Advanced Certificate in Clinical Supervision Including Online and Telephone Working
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Enhanced DBS checked
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EMDR Level 1, 2 and 3 EMDR Europe trained
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EMDR Child and Adolescent Level 1 and 2 EMDR Europe trained
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EMDR Europe Accredited Practitioner for adults
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Regular clinical supervision with a senior psychotherapist and EMDR consultant
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Registered with the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) and compliant with UK data protection regulations
My approach
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I work within a holistic framework that combines person-centred, psychodynamic, and proactive therapy. This means we focus on what you bring to the session today, while reflecting on the past to understand your present. Using concepts from Internal Family Systems (IFS) and somatics, we work together to befriend your inner world and understand what your body and nervous system are carrying.
Specialist EMDR Therapy
To deepen this work, I specialize in EMDR therapy—a powerful, integrative psychotherapy that is highly effective for trauma and lasting distress. Because difficult life experiences are not just stored in our thoughts, talk therapy alone isn't always enough. EMDR allows us to work simultaneously with your mind, body, and emotions to:
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Process difficult memories so you can remember the past without emotionally re-experiencing it.
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Rewire negative core beliefs and link up adaptive, helpful thoughts and feelings.
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Conclude active stress cycles that keep you feeling stuck, anxious, or overwhelmed.
Whether we are talking or processing somatically, I work at your pace to develop a relationship rooted in curiosity, self-empowerment, and supportive challenge.
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Therapy and EMDR
I offer long and short-term therapy for individuals using talking therapy and EMDR. I have extensive experience working with a wide variety of issues, including trauma, attachment and relational trauma, painful life events, anxiety, emotional distress, grief and loss, men's mental well-being, personal development, low self-esteem, stress, school anxieties, work-related difficulties, long-term health challenges, birth trauma, chronic pain, and family or relationship problems.
Psychotherapy
This underpins all of my work by offering a confidential space for you to be curious, explore, and increase your self-awareness. Past experiences often create templates for how we see ourselves today. Together, we can review these templates to decide what you are ready to let go of, what you wish to refine, what you are ready to actively change and what treasures are to keep. In this work, I encourage connection to body communication as well as thoughts, behaviors, and emotions. My practice is deeply informed by yoga, movement, shifting energies in the body, connecting to nature, and learning to calm and understand what the nervous system carries. Psychotherapy sessions are available for 60 or 90 minutes.
EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing)
EMDR is a powerful, integrative therapy that works beautifully within the scaffold of wider psychotherapy. It is particularly effective if your experience of talking therapy has got you so far and yet you do not feel the changes within your body. EMDR is much more than just bilateral eye movements; it involves relationship building, history taking, and boosting your personal self-resources for regulation and care. Together, we navigate preparation work, agree on targeted focus areas, evaluate progress, and integrate these changes into your worldview and daily life. While clients can work within a standard 60-minute therapy hour, EMDR sessions are often most effective at 90 minutes to allow for supportive challenge and deep processing. This structure is always reviewed and discussed collaboratively. You can explore more information at https://emdrassociation.org.uk/.
EMDR Intensives
For those looking to accelerate their healing, I offer EMDR Intensives. These are concentrated therapy sessions taking place over two or three days. This format bypasses the weekly start-and-stop momentum of traditional therapy, offering a dedicated, supportive space to lean deeply into difficult emotional work. Intensives require detailed preparation beforehand, focused processing blocks during the sessions, and structured follow-up care. Suitability for this intensive approach is thoroughly assessed before we collaborate on an agreed plan of work.
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Session costs start from £80 an hour.
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FAQ about EMDR
Sessions​
When​ we first meet I will ask if you want me to gently lead the session to support you to express what is important for you and/or you can lead to share what is bringing you to therapy now. If you have had previous therapy we will explore what was helpful or unhelpful before. I want the first and all sessions to be as helpful as possible and will work alongside you to review regularly to ensure therapy remains supportive and meaningful.​
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Payment is by bank transfer in advance or on the day of your session
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Appointments can be rearranged or cancelled up to 48 hours before the scheduled time without charge
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First 60 minute session - £80
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60 minute talking therapy sessions - £80
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90 minute EMDR focused session - £120
EMDR Intensive
Intensive format structure is discussed individually and adjusted according to different presentations. This would at a minimal include a sixty minute assessment session, three 90 minute EMDR reprocessing sessions and a sixty minute follow-up session. Due to the timings being exclusive for you and often to suit working schedules these may include some sessions at the weekend by pre-agreement. Price example for the above - £520
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If you're having thoughts of harming yourself or are in immediate distress, please seek urgent support:
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Call 999 and ask for an ambulance
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Go to A&E
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Contact your crisis team (if you have one)
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Call your GP or use NHS 111
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Samaritans: 116 123 (24/7, free to call)
Therapy is not a crisis service, but I'm here to support you once you're safe.
