EMDR Therapy
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About EMDR Therapy
EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing) is a psychotherapy that allows people to heal from symptoms and emotional distress caused by disturbing life experiences. Repeated studies have shown that by using EMDR therapy, people can experience the benefits of psychotherapy that once took years to have an impact. It is generally believed that severe emotional pain takes a long time to heal. EMDR therapy shows that the mind can actually heal from psychological trauma, just as the body recovers from physical trauma. When you cut your hand, your body will try to close the wound. If a foreign body or repeated injury irritates the wound, it will fester and cause pain.
Once the block is removed, the healing will resume. EMDR therapy shows that a similar sequence of events occurs in the psychological process. The brain’s information processing system naturally moves towards mental health. If the system is blocked or unbalanced due to the influence of the disturbance event, the emotional wound will fester and may cause intense pain. Once the block is removed, the healing will resume. Using the detailed protocols and procedures learned in the EMDR treatment training courses, clinicians help clients activate their natural healing process.
More than 30 positive control results studies have been conducted on EMDR treatment. Some studies have shown that 84%-90% of single trauma victims no longer suffer from PTSD after only three 90-minute treatments. Another study funded by HMO Kaiser Permanente found that 100% of single trauma victims and 77% of multiple trauma victims were no longer diagnosed with PTSD after only 6 50-minute treatments. In another study, 77% of veterans did not develop PTSD in 12 treatments. There is so much research on EMDR therapy that it is now recognized by organizations such as the American Psychiatric Association, the World Health Organization, and the Department of Defense as an effective form of treating trauma and other disturbing experiences.
Given the globally recognized effective treatment for trauma, you can easily see how EMDR therapy can effectively treat “daily” memories, which are the cause of people’s low self-esteem, powerlessness, and all the countless problems that result from it. They receive treatment. More than 100,000 clinicians worldwide use this therapy. In the past 25 years, millions of people have been successfully treated.
EMDR Treatment
EMDR therapy involves attention to the past, present, and future. Focus is given to past disturbing memories and related events. Focus is also given to current situations that cause distress, and to developing the skills and attitudes needed for positive future actions. The approach of EMDR therapy is to address these items using an eight-phase treatment.
EMDR treatment is an eight-stage treatment. Use eye movements (or other bilateral stimuli) during part of the session. After the clinician has determined which memory to target first, he asks the client to remember different aspects of the event or thought and track it with his eyes as the therapist’s hand moves back and forth in the client’s field of vision. When this happens, due to reasons that Harvard researchers believe are related to the biological mechanisms involved in rapid eye movement (REM) sleep, internal associations appear, and customers begin to process memories and disturbing feelings. In successful EMDR treatment, the meaning of painful events has changed on an emotional level.
As an example, a rape victim may shift from feeling horror and self-disgust to the belief that, “I survived it and I am strong.” Unlike various talk therapy, the insights that clients gain in EMDR therapy result from the client’s own accelerated intellectual and emotional processes rather than from clinician interpretation. The result is that clients complete EMDR therapy feeling empowered by the very same experiences that once debased them. Their wounds have not just been addressed, they have transformed. The natural outcome of the EMDR therapeutic process is that the clients’ thoughts, feelings and behavior are all strong indicators of emotional health without speaking in detail or doing work used in other therapies.
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