About:
I am Dr. Linda Thomas and I help people with psychological trauma, including severe trauma and Post Traumatic Stress Disorder.
'Healing the Gap' has grown from my desire to literally heal the gap between allopathic ('Western') and complementary medicine. I have been using an integrative approach in my medical career particularly for the last 10 years.
I am passionate about people. While I know how the path to our knowledge of self-healing can be blocked and difficult to access, I believe that we are resilient. I love to help people clear these blockages out of their way so they can be free to enjoy life.
Through EFT and Matrix Reimprinting sessions, I support individuals who wish to work through their traumas in a gentle and safe manner.
As a consequence of my years in general practice and hospital-based medicine, I am sensitive to a variety of viewpoints and understand the importance of acknowledging the diversity of our perceptions.
For more information about me and how I may be able to help, please go to my website: www.healingthagap.co.uk
How I can help:
I offer 1 or 2 hour sessions focused on individual issues that you feel stuck with.
In a very gentle, supportive, yet focused way we can get to the root of the issue and then, crucially, heal it.
This is useful for people whose lives are affected and limited by traumatic past events. We aim to modify your physical as well as emotional responses to these painful memories. When a memory (especially a traumatic one) is recalled, the brain and body together experience it as though the situation is happening in the present. Sometimes these sensations are exacerbated by intense feelings of anger, shame, inadequacy or guilt that have become associated with the original memory. Working actively with these intense feelings, we use compassion and kindness with ourselves in that past memory, ultimately culminating in the separation of the past and the present.
With this technique we can actually put a new healed memory in place of the old traumatic one. This is really helpful; it stops the ‘triggering’ that can be so destructive in our lives when we unwittingly tune in to our past trauma. We transform a memory (even if it is patchy and incomplete) by bringing in a variety of resources to you in that memory, to help you to do or say what you may not have been able to do at the time. This in no way denies the past but allows it to be healed so that it can move gently into the past. We can start playing a different tune in the present, which has ramifications in all aspects of our lives.
Specialist areas:
I am particularly interested in physical health issues and severe psychological trauma inlcuding Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD). Other areas where these methods may help include: fears and phobias, grief and loss, self image and issues around food, anger and jealousy, relationship and parenting issues including inter-generational patterns.
Other expertise:
I have been a doctor for over 16 years in both hospital medicine and General Practice.
I am a trained medical acupuncturist, and an EFT and Matrix Reimprinting practitioner.