EmDR Treatment

EMDR.

EMDR(Eye Movement Desensitization & Reprocessing), as with most therapy approaches, focuses on your present concerns. The approach posits that past emotionally-charged experiences are overly influencing your present emotions, sensations, and thoughts about yourself. In a sense, you get “hijacked.” As an example: “Do you ever feel worthless although you know you are a worthwhile person?”

EMDR techniques can give you enhanced coping skills, and can help you break through the emotional blocks that are keeping you from living an adaptive, emotionally healthy life.

EMDR uses rapid sets of eye movements or other bilateral stimulation such as tapping to help you update disturbing experiences, much like what occurs when we sleep. During sleep, we alternate between regular sleep and REM (rapid eye movement). This sleep pattern helps you process things that are troubling you.

EMDR replicates this sleep pattern by alternating between sets of eye movements and brief reports about what you are noticing. This alternating process helps you update your memories to a healthier present perspective.

EMDR uses a set of procedures to organize your negative and positive feelings, emotions, and thoughts, and then uses bilateral stimulation, such as eye movements or alternating tapping, as the way to help you effectively work through those disturbing memories.

EMDR focuses on the brain’s ability to constantly learn, taking past experiences, and updating them with present information.

You may get emotional. Emotions and sensations may come up during processing, although we will make sure that you are prepared and we will safely manage them. Once they are processed, they rarely come back.

During EMDR processing, you are fully in control and present, unlike hypnosis.

EMDR is an Evidence Based Treatment for Trauma, PTSD, Grief & Loss