John Taylor

Please contact me on +44 07525 456544 or email me on johnnie@eastkenttherapy.co.uk

I am normally available during the week, where i offer weekly and fortnightly online Internal family systems' therapy and EMDR therapy sessions.

Thank you. 

Hello I offer empathic and compassionate trauma-informed psychotherapy and counselling. 

 Together we get to know your wounded parts and process traumatic memories with  Internal Family Systems therapy and EMDR. We can use guided imagery, meditations, resourcing, connecting gently with your inner child, and other ways to heal your nervous system.

I am accredited with EMDR Europe and the EMDR Association UK, and trained to Level 3 with the IFS Institute. This is the full approved trainings for both IFS and EMDR. Prior to developing as a trauma psychotherapist i was a clinical nurse specialist in the NHS. I spent many years training with a Jungian therapy group in London.

In therapy together there is an opportunity to get to know your inner child, and how you responded to your life in your family and in your experiences when you were a boy or girl.

As we get older, often our nervous system doesn't always realise we have grown up and it is good to spend time noticing the parts that are operating in a child-like way.

A dysregulated nervous system can account for most mental health and emotional and somatic issues. These can be anxiety, panic, fear and flight responses, avoidance, rumination. You might get depressed and angry, overwork, have conpulsions and OCD, and even develop complex symptoms such as C-PTSD, dissociation, flashbacks and difficulty being present. 

IFS creates a compassionate shared space to get to know these parts carrying some emotional trauma. The therapy isn’t about removing these issues, but we turn to these dysregulated parts, and get to know them. We witness, validate and love all of yourself. We can converse with your wounded ‘child parts’ and begin to install peace and safety, reducing their distress. Essentially we form a relationship with your parts and use also EMDR to process acutely painful memories. Using retrieval techniques we can take you out of trauma situations and repair and heal your nervous system. 

 In this way your whole body and systems relaxes and settles down, and this facilitates space for your authentic, creative Self to grow inside, inside a peaceful, regulatef body. So this is an embodied therapy reprocessing trauma, beyond intellectual talk therapy. We are not removing your issues we are loving them. 

 EMDR and IFS together are particularly effective for emotional trauma, abuse, neglect, bullying, abandonment, and the long-term effects of difficult relationships.

I am accredited with EMDR Europe and the EMDR Association UK, and trained to Levels 3 with the IFS Institute. I hold NHS registration and Enhanced DBS. 

I have worked clinically in the NHS for 20 yrs in liaison psychiatry. 

I can offer a free 30 minute Zoom session, which is confidential and a chance to explore your concerns. 

I also specialise in: Codependency where you may abandon yourself to meet others' needs. I can help you navigate narcissism and abusive relationships. I was a manager of an NHS crisis team and offer help in your recovery, supporting you in reclaiming voice, boundaries, and self-trust.

Outside my therapeutic work, I'm a writer and a judge for the Orwell Prize.

Please also text me confidentially on 07525 456544 and i will get back to you. Thank you.