EMDR

Feeling stuck? Try EMDR: Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing. EMDR is an eight-phased, scientifically validated, integrative psychotherapy approach based on the theory that much of psychopathology is due to traumatic experiences or disturbing life events. These result in the impairment of the client’s innate ability to process and to integrate the experience or experiences within the central nervous system. The core of EMDR treatment involves activating components of the traumatic memory or disturbing life event and pairing those components with alternating bilateral or dual attention stimulation. This process appears to facilitate the resumption of normal information processing and integration. This treatment approach can result in the alleviation of presenting symptoms, diminution of distress from the memory, improved view of the self, relief from bodily disturbance, and resolution of present and future anticipated triggers.

In the broadest sense, EMDR is intended to alleviate human suffering and assist individuals and society to fulfill their potential for development while minimizing risks of harm in its application. For the client, the aim of EMDR treatment is to achieve the most profound and comprehensive treatment effects in the shortest period of time, while maintaining client stability within a balanced family and social system. The purpose of EMDR is to help free the client from the past into a healthy and productive present.

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