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Merima Pašalić EMDR
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What is a stabilisation group and who is it for?

Short answer

Six weeks, once a week, six people at most. You learn what to do when your body starts — bringing tension down, interrupting night waking, a way back to the present. Nobody is asked what happened to them and nothing is processed. The next cycle starts in October.

This is not group therapy in the way that phrase is usually used. You do not sit in a circle and tell your story. The group is closer to a class than a session: there is a topic, there is an exercise, and you go home with something concrete to try before the next one.

The reason for that format is practical. Stabilisation skills are the first phase of any trauma therapy, they are learned just as well in a group as one to one, and in a group they cost considerably less. If you go on to individual work afterwards, you have already done that phase.

Six topics, six weeks

  1. 01

    What happens in the body

    Why the reaction arrives before the thought, and why that is not a matter of will. No diagnoses and no labels.

    90 minutes
  2. 02

    Bringing it down, on the spot

    Several techniques that work on a bus and at work, not only in a quiet room.

    90 minutes
  3. 03

    Getting back to the present

    What to do when you drift away from yourself or from the room — orientation, not relaxation.

    90 minutes
  4. 04

    Sleep

    Waking at three, dreams, and what to do instead of lying in the dark waiting.

    90 minutes
  5. 05

    Triggers

    How to spot them in advance and make a plan that does not depend on how you feel that day.

    90 minutes
  6. 06

    What next

    What to keep from this, and how to recognise that you need individual work.

    90 minutes

A good place to start

  • You have never been in therapy and do not know whether you want to be
  • You are waiting for an individual slot, with me or with someone else
  • You know what happened to you and for now do not want to open it
  • Your body reacts more strongly than you would like, and the trigger is clear

When I will suggest something else

  • If you are in crisis now — a group is too slow for that
  • If being in a room with people is currently too much
  • If what brings you is an active addiction or eating disorder
  • If you want processing now — individual work is the shorter route

There is always a short call before the group. It is not a selection process — it exists so that I do not sell you six weeks of something you do not need.

Next cycle in October

Six people at most, 240 KM for the whole cycle, paid up front. Get in touch and I will hold a place for you until we have spoken.