- Fee assured
- Verified account
Specialises in
- Eye Movement Desensitisation and Reprocessing (EMDR)
Offers
- Face-to-face consultations
- Video and telephone consultations
About me
Bo Bloomfield is a senior accredited practitioner with 28 years' unbroken practice working therapeutically with trauma. Bo is an EMDR Accredited Practitioner having completed the EMDR Europe Standard Accredited Training with the EMDR Academy in 2023 and having gained accredited status with the EMDR UK Association in 2025. EMDR is an approach that can be helpful in working with a wide range of mental health issues and with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) in particular. EMDR can help people to recover from distressing life events and the problems they have caused, for example, flashbacks, upsetting thoughts or images, depression or anxiety. EMDR is recognised by the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) as a treatment for PTSD, and the World Health Organisation (WHO). Bo has undertaken further specialist training in the Flash Technique (FT). This is an evidenced-based therapeutic intervention for reducing the disturbance associated with traumatic or other distressing memories. The Flash Technique is a complementary approach to EMDR and can be used to reduce the level of disturbance associated with painful and traumatic life events. Bo has also completed training in Attachment Focused EMDR (AF-EMDR) which is a specialised approach to EMDR that targets early relational trauma including childhood attachment wounds, emotional neglect, developmental trauma, abuse, disassociation and complex PTSD. Additionally, Bo is trained in DBR (Deep Brain Reorienting). DBR is a scientifically based, transformational trauma psychotherapy developed by Dr Frank Corrigan. DBR focuses on healing the shock at the core of traumatic experiences and uses trauma memory processing developed from an understanding of stimulus-responses sequences in the upper brainstem. This approach diminishes the risk of overwhelm or dissociation. DBR can be helpful in working with attachment shock, attachment wounding and relational disturbances associated with early life adversity and childhood trauma. DBR often starts with present-day activations to provide treatment that is immediately relevant to the client's quality of life. In essence, the aim of DBR is to access and facilitate the reprocessing of difficult or traumatic events at a deep level, working within the brainstem and neurobiological responses.
Areas of interest
Trauma; Abuse; Anxiety; Bereavement; Depression; Loss; Post-traumatic stress; Service Veterans; OCD; Relationships; Self-esteem; Women's issues; Work place injury; Birth Trauma
Medical secretaries
- Bo Bloomfield
- The Grove Therapy and Counselling S 62, The Grove Promenade, Ilkley, West Yorkshire LS29 9PA
- 07941 521363
- 07941 521363
- bobloomfield@icloud.com