10 Reasons I Love Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR)
Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) is a psychotherapy approach used to treat anxiety, grief, depression, OCD, chronic, pain, trauma and other distressing life experiences.
10 Reasons I Love EMDR:
- Effective: EMDR is highly effective. Clinical research and brain scans provide evidence of EMDR healing the brain and clients experiencing relief from symptoms.
- Rapid Results: You’ll experience significant improvements in a relatively short amount of time compared to traditional talk therapies.
- Resolution, Not Management: Coping can become exhausting. The goal of EMDR is to alleviate symptoms, so you’re not constantly managing them. When you no longer experience unwanted symptoms, you don’t have to repeatedly cope with them.
- Emotional Freedom: You gain freedom from the past. EMDR gives you the freedom to feel pleasant emotions or remain neutral in the present, as opposed to being governed by the past.
- Comprehensive Approach: EMDR addresses both the cognitive and emotional aspects of traumatic memories. It helps identify negative beliefs linked to trauma and replace them with more adaptive ones.
- Non-invasive: EMDR does not involve medications or surgical interventions, making it a non-invasive treatment option. We’re able to systematically rewire the brain’s disrupted patterns caused by trauma.
- The Details are Unnecessary: We focus on how the past affects you today and how your body holds onto past experiences. You do not need to have a “good memory,” and you do not need to share all the details of an event to reprocess it.
- Addresses Missed Experiences: Sometimes it’s not what happened to you but what didn’t happen. With Attachment-Focused EMDR, we can address how not being protected, seen, heard, or understood in your childhood can lead to pain today and affect your relationships.
- Multiple Types of Traumas: EMDR can be effective for a range of traumatic experiences, including childhood trauma, sexual assault, combat exposure, and accidents. It can also help with other issues such as phobias, anxiety, and grief.
- Empowers Clients: When the past no longer has a negative impact on your present-day life, you become more capable of implementing coping mechanisms and self-regulation.
