Philip Gilmore

What Problems Can I Help You With?

I work with individual adults experiencing a wide range of problems such as:

• stress
• anxiety
• phobias
• perfectionism
• depression
• anger
• motor vehicle accidents
• trauma
• complex trauma
• childhood developmental trauma (including sexual harm)
• chronic pain
• relationship difficulties
• self-confidence
• self-criticism
• indecision
• personal growth, etc.

How Does Counselling Help?

My goal is to help you explore and progressively release the constraints that limit your natural capacity for greater inner balance – allowing you to become less reactive and more resilient over time to the inevitable stresses of life.

I often work with Internal Family Systems (IFS). I have completed the level 3 training and understand the profound benefits of this non-pathologizing form of therapy. From an IFS perspective, all our difficulties are there for a good reason, even when that seems highly unlikely! I also use mindfulness techniques, which can be a great first step towards healing and are very compatible with IFS.

Deep Brain Reorienting (DBR) is a cutting edge, evidence based, trauma therapy that is becoming increasingly popular for its simplicity and effectiveness. I often use this bottom up approach to address the impacts of with trauma that are hard to reach with other methods. As DBR is focused on the first moment of surprise or shock, rather than the worst moment – we can deal with overwhelming or shameful memories without even talking much about what happened at all. The approach helps to release the residual shock held by the body. This reduces the intensity of the subsequent emotional reactions, which is often where many of the difficulties with trauma lie.

I have also completed EMDR training and I am a member of the EMDR Association of Hong Kong. I am also informed by a number of other evidence-based psychological theories and models such as attachment theory, and humanistic counselling.