John had managed his group of employees well when a more senior supervisor was assigned to the project. The supervisor began to make unreasonable demands on John, asking him to drive out to the project at midnight to check the security lock, keeping him for long hours after closing time on menial tasks, requesting research into information that required to take time away from his core responsibilities. John began to lose sleep, be irritable with his family and dreaded going to work. A strong man, John found himself close to tears on occasion. With EMDR Therapy, John was able to recognise his distress as being associated with childhood experiences of bullying and was able to put the current situation into perspective and seek assistance from his company directors without feeling shame.