EMDR

EMDR stands for Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing. It is a form of emotional surgery to heal emotional wounds. It involves working with memories, body sensations, core-self beliefs, and emotions to eliminate the residential emotional, somatic, and cognitive remnants of painful past experiences.

Treatment includes a hand motion technique used by the therapist to guide the client’s eye movements from side to side. Some studies have shown EMDR is effective for treating certain mental health conditions.

EMDR therapy is based on the adaptive information processing (AIP) model. It stimulates the brain in ways that lead it to process unprocessed or unhealed memories. EMDR helps people address and work through those memories, sensations, and emotions. Painful experiences will likely become less upsetting after EMDR treatment.

If you have questions, it’s best to get in touch to determine if EMDR can help treat your mental health issue.

“EMDR is a form of therapy which allows you to heal your mind from situations and events. If you tend to re-live events over and over, you might need help in releasing that memory from the present and allow it to pass through to long-term memory. You don’t have to feel the past like it happened yesterday. You do have to think about the situation while bilateral movements are used, but you don’t always have to talk about the issue. This is a nice side to EMDR. I find EMDR is powerful! I truly wish I would have found it earlier, so that every client could have experienced the benefits. More information can be found at www.emdria.org.”