It is known as the Rewind Technique due to the use of the sufferer’s imagination to ‘experience’ rewinding occurrences of the incident(s) in their mind’s eye. One of the great benefits of the technique is that the practitioner does not need to know any detail about the incidents, greatly relieving the discomfort often involved in the re-telling.

It is thought that the process works as the traumatic memory is 're-processed' by the higher cortex, enabling the emergency pattern to be released by the amydala and the memory to be 're-classified' as non-threatening. Thus, the pattern-match that was causing the anxiety and panic no longer occurs.

The Rewind Technique was originally created by the originators of NLP (Neuro-Linguistic Programming) who called it the Visual-Kinaesthetic Dissociation Technique (V/K Dissociation) or the easier-to-remember 'Fast Phobia Cure'. It was refined into the Rewind Technique by Joseph Griffin and Ivan Tyrrell of the Human Givens Institute. Your therapist Siobhan Byrne has trained in the Rewind Technique with Uncommon Knowledge (UK).

The vast majority of sufferers experience a significant (over 70%) reduction in their symptoms following one session lasting around one and a half hours. The process itself is comfortable, and does not involve 're-living' of unpleasant events.