“I had an abortion when I was 16, it was very painful,” my therapist repeated these words again and again, for what felt like hours, as my eyes tracked the movement of the pen in her hand. We were two sessions into my EMDR treatment (Eye Movement Desensitisation and Reprocessing), a method of therapy given to people with PTSD, anxiety and depression to help recover from trauma. I was extremely sceptical. How could this work? Repeating a statement of fact whilst my eyes darted
