EMDR Therapy Quarterly

EMDR UK Annual Conference

Upside Down House outside the conference venue, Liverpool; Image © Anthea Sutton, March 2025

As we write this, Anthea has recently returned from the annual conference in Liverpool. It was a pleasure to meet so many of you there, and we’d like to extend our thanks to everyone who presented a poster. There was a real buzz in our poster corner during the refreshment breaks, and it was fantastic to see the level of interest and engagement. You can read more about the research posters in Anthea’s report “Poster Presentations: EMDR UK Annual Conference 2025”, including details of the best poster award winner, as voted by the SRC.

SRC member Susannah Colbert and Anthea also presented an update on the committee’s activities during the lunch break on Day 1. Many thanks to all those who gave up their place in the lunch queue to join us! If you missed it, a recording is available via the conference app.

Looking ahead to the 2026 conference, we welcome early expressions of interest in submitting a poster abstract. Please email Anthea at a.sutton@emdrassociation.org.uk with your proposed topic, and we’ll be sure to alert you when the official call for abstracts opens.

We will also have a designated research slot on the programme. If there are topics or speakers you’d like to suggest for this, do get in touch at a.sutton@emdrassociation.org.uk.

Research skills webinars

Now the conference is over for 2025, we can all turn our attention to other forms of CPD. Following our successful webinar on critical appraisal in January, we’re planning a series of sessions on introductory research skills. Please look out for further details. If there are specific topics you’d like to see covered, please let us know at a.sutton@emdrassociation.org.uk.

Engaging with NICE

One of the SRC’s key aims is to contribute to relevant NICE guidelines as stakeholders. A new guideline on the assessment and management of obsessive-compulsive and related disorders is currently under development.

EMDR UK was represented at the recent scoping workshop held on 1st April, and we’ll continue to keep members updated as this process unfolds. If you’re interested in joining a consultation group to support our feedback at key stages, please contact us at a.sutton@emdrassociation.org.uk.

The guideline committee is now recruiting for lay members with lived experience of OCD and/or BDD, with a deadline of 6^th June 2025 for applications.  Please see the NICE website for further details and do circulate to your networks where the opportunity may be of interest.

A systematic review of EMDR for the treatment and prevention of PTSD

An open-access journal article reporting on a systematic review of adults, conducted by the School of Medicine and Population Health at the University of Sheffield, is currently in press. A second article, focusing on children and adolescents, has also been submitted. Both will be publicised as soon as they’re available. Anthea will also be presenting this work at the EMDR Europe Research & Practice Conference at the end of May.

Supervisors and research projects for Doctorate in Clinical Psychology trainees

We’ll soon be reaching out to members seeking volunteers to externally supervise DClinPsy trainees and to suggest research project ideas. Thank you to those who have already been in touch following the conference – we’re looking forward to hearing more of your ideas.

And finally…

A reminder that all members have access to the EMDR Publications Database, a valuable resource compiling peer-reviewed research on EMDR. If you don’t yet have access, please email emdrdatabase@sheffield.ac.uk. The database is updated quarterly. You can find a report on the most recent updates in this Spring 2025 edition of the ETQ, it is called “EMDR Publications Database”.