Publications

Articles & Presentations

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Article, December 2025 - Go With That Magazine - Fall 2025 Issue: “Holding the Infant and the Infinite” by Jocelyn Rose & Katharine Brayne

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I am honoured to have co-authored this feature article for EMDRIA’s Go With That Magazine, exploring an integrative framework for EMDR that weaves together attachment-informed principles, transpersonal psychology, and the emerging field of psychedelic-assisted therapy. The piece examines how EMDR can support the profound shifts that arise in expanded states of consciousness, while remaining rooted in the nervous system, early relational patterns, and the safety of the therapeutic relationship. At its core, the article offers a compassionate, clinically grounded roadmap for working with clients whose histories (or healing journeys) take them into complex emotional and symbolic terrain.

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This publication reflects the essence of my therapeutic approach: depth-oriented EMDR that attends to both the “infant” (our earliest attachment and nervous-system imprints) and the “infinite” (the meaning-making, soulful or archetypal layers that often emerge in healing). By bridging the structured reliability of EMDR with the openness of transpersonal experience, the article invites clinicians to hold trauma and transformation with equal care. I’m grateful for the opportunity to contribute to this evolving conversation within the EMDR community, and to support approaches that honour the full complexity of human healing.

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Rose, J., & Brayne, K. (2025). Holding the infant and the infinite: Interweaving attachment-informed and transpersonal frameworks into psychedelic-assisted EMDR therapy. Go With That Magazine, Fall 2025.

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Presentation, November 2025 - "Faith, Spirituality and EMDR - Exploring the Inner World Through Silence and Nature" by Jutta Brayne & Katharine Brayne

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On 21 November 2025, I had the privilege of co-presenting with Jutta Brayne at EMDR UK’s regional networking day on Faith, Spirituality and the EMDR Therapist; a gathering that brought together nearly a hundred clinicians from across the UK and internationally to explore the spiritual and cultural dimensions of trauma healing.

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Our session, Personal Spirituality Through Nature and Silence, invited colleagues into the contemplative qualities that often arise quietly within EMDR. Drawing on Jutta’s research into transformational silences in therapy, and my own background in nature-based spirituality, meditation and cross-cultural practice, we explored:

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• how EMDR’s inward orientation and bilateral stimulation can evoke profound contemplative states

• the role of theta and alpha–theta oscillation, neuroplasticity and the “space between states” in therapeutic change

• the grounding and resourcing power of nature connection

• how therapists’ inner stance (presence, coherence, compassion) creates the conditions for clients’ deepest healing

• the parallels between EMDR and transpersonal, Indigenous and contemplative traditions in understanding meaning-making​

What emerged across the wider day was a shared recognition that spirituality (however clients understand it) is often central to identity, resilience and healing. Bringing this into EMDR work with sensitivity, openness and clinical grounding allows for deeper integration and transformation.

I’m honoured to have contributed to such a rich and diverse day of learning alongside colleagues from Jewish, Islamic, Christian, Hindu, Bahá’í, Indigenous and nature-based traditions. This conversation continues to shape my own integrative EMDR practice and the work I offer through Braynewaves.

If you’re interested in therapeutic work that welcomes the whole of your experience (mind, body, spirit, culture and story) you’re very welcome.

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Brayne, J., & Brayne, K. (2025, November 21). Personal spirituality through nature and silence [Conference presentation]. Faith, Spirituality and the EMDR Therapist: EMDR UK regional networking day, Online.

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