What IEMT is not

Why this page

Trust is built through boundaries

Most pages tell you what something can do. This one deliberately does the opposite — because I believe you can only genuinely trust a method when you also know where it stops. No single approach suits everything, and anyone who suggests otherwise gives you less to hold on to, not more.

So below: as clearly as possible, what IEMT is not. Not to deter, but so you can better judge whether it suits your question — and if not, which direction might.

‘You can only trust a method when you know where it stops.’

The core

I use IEMT as coaching — not therapy, not medical care

IEMT I use as coaching. It is not therapy and not medical treatment. That may sound like a formality, but it is a genuine distinction. A coach works with you on a question, a pattern, a direction. A therapist or doctor treats complaints or conditions, typically within mental health care or medical practice.

Concretely, that means:

IEMT does not replace a psychologist, psychiatrist or GP. If a treatment is already underway, that comes first — IEMT can at most sit alongside it, not in place of it.

I do not make diagnoses and I do not prescribe anything. If you have a diagnosis or take medication, your treating professional is the right person for that — not your coach.

The boundary

When a different path is appropriate

Some questions do not belong in coaching, and it is my responsibility to recognise that. Where a trauma requires treatment, where there are clinical complaints — think of depression, serious anxiety or something requiring professional care — and certainly where there is acute need, a coaching intervention is not the right place.

In those cases I say so honestly, and I refer you to appropriate care: your GP, a psychologist, or wherever it belongs. That is not a rejection — it is attentiveness. You deserve the help that suits your situation, and sometimes that is simply not me.

For acute need or crisis: contact your GP or out-of-hours GP service. For the difference between IEMT and the treatment of trauma, read IEMT and EMDR.

Honest

No miracle cure — and not always on target

IEMT is also not a miracle cure, and I do not promise it will work for everyone. Sometimes a question turns out not to sit on the layer that IEMT reaches, and then little shifts. That is not a failure — not yours and not the method’s. It is information: it shows that something different is needed.

When that happens, I do not keep pushing. I think with you about what might fit better, within or outside my practice. I would rather be honest about what an approach cannot do than sell it as a universal answer. For me that is not a marketing choice — it is simply how I work.

What it is

A calm, focused way to move forward

After all these boundaries, it is good to say what IEMT genuinely is. It is a calm, focused way of working within coaching with a pattern or response that thinking alone no longer shifts. Not years on the couch, no obligation to tell your whole story, no dramatic breakthroughs — a method that can set something in motion on a specific layer.

What that feels like from the inside, you can read at how a session feels. And if you simply want to test whether your question fits here, an introductory call is exactly what that is for: no obligation, and if I think a different path would serve you better, I will say so.