{"id":147,"date":"2021-06-22T12:19:49","date_gmt":"2021-06-22T12:19:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gaby.us\/travmasolutions.travmasolutions.com\/?page_id=147"},"modified":"2025-02-11T14:32:08","modified_gmt":"2025-02-11T14:32:08","slug":"emdr","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/gaby.us\/travmasolutions\/?page_id=147","title":{"rendered":"EMDR: Eye movement desensitization and reprocessing"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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EMDR is a psychotherapy that enables people to heal from the symptoms and emotional distress that are the result of disturbing life experiences.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n

EMDR therapy shows that the mind can in fact heal from psychological trauma much as the body recovers from physical trauma.\u00a0When you cut your hand, your body works to close the wound.\u00a0If a foreign object or repeated injury irritates the wound, it festers and causes pain.\u00a0Once the block is removed, healing resumes.\u00a0EMDR therapy demonstrates that a similar sequence of events occurs with mental processes.\u00a0The brain\u2019s information processing system naturally moves toward mental health.\u00a0If the system is blocked or imbalanced by the impact of a disturbing event, the emotional wound festers and can cause intense suffering.\u00a0Once the block is removed, healing resumes.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n

EMDR therapy is an eight-phase treatment.<\/strong>\u00a0Eye movements (or other bilateral stimulation) are used during one part of the session.\u00a0After the clinician has determined which memory to target first, he asks the client to hold different aspects of that event or thought in mind and to use his eyes to track the therapist\u2019s hand as it moves back and forth across the client\u2019s field of vision.\u00a0As this happens internal associations arise and the clients begin to process the memory and disturbing feelings.<\/p>\n\n

In successful EMDR therapy, the meaning of painful events is transformed on an emotional level.\u00a0For instance, a rape victim shifts from feeling horror and self-disgust to holding the firm belief that, \u201cI survived it and I am strong.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n\n

Unlike talk therapy, the insights clients gain in EMDR therapy result not so much from clinician interpretation, but from the client\u2019s own accelerated intellectual and emotional processes.\u00a0The net effect is that clients conclude EMDR therapy feeling empowered by the very experiences that once debased them.\u00a0Their wounds have not just closed, they have transformed.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

EMDR: Eye movement desensitization and reprocessing EMDR is a psychotherapy that enables people to heal from the symptoms and emotional distress that are the result of disturbing life experiences.\u00a0 EMDR therapy shows that the mind can in fact heal from psychological trauma much as the body recovers from physical trauma.\u00a0When you cut your hand, your body works to close the wound.\u00a0If a foreign object or repeated injury irritates the wound, it festers and causes pain.\u00a0Once the block is removed, healing resumes.\u00a0EMDR therapy demonstrates that a similar sequence of events occurs with mental processes.\u00a0The brain\u2019s information processing system naturally moves toward mental health.\u00a0If the system is blocked or imbalanced by the impact of a disturbing event, the emotional wound festers and can cause intense suffering.\u00a0Once the block is removed, healing resumes.\u00a0 EMDR therapy is an eight-phase treatment.\u00a0Eye movements (or other bilateral stimulation) are used during one part of the session.\u00a0After the clinician has determined which memory to target first, he asks the client to hold different aspects of that event or thought in mind and to use his eyes to track the therapist\u2019s hand as it moves back and forth across the client\u2019s field of vision.\u00a0As this happens internal associations arise and the clients begin to process the memory and disturbing feelings. In successful EMDR therapy, the meaning of painful events is transformed on an emotional level.\u00a0For instance, a rape victim shifts from feeling horror and self-disgust to holding the firm belief that, \u201cI survived it and I am strong.\u201d\u00a0 Unlike talk therapy, the insights clients gain in EMDR therapy result not so much from clinician interpretation, but from the client\u2019s own accelerated intellectual and emotional processes.\u00a0The net effect is that clients conclude EMDR therapy feeling empowered by the very experiences that once debased them.\u00a0Their wounds have not just closed, they have transformed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":35,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_uag_custom_page_level_css":"","site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"default","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"default","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"class_list":["post-147","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"uagb_featured_image_src":{"full":false,"thumbnail":false,"medium":false,"medium_large":false,"large":false,"1536x1536":false,"2048x2048":false},"uagb_author_info":{"display_name":"Alx Karakcheyev","author_link":"https:\/\/gaby.us\/travmasolutions\/?author=2"},"uagb_comment_info":0,"uagb_excerpt":"EMDR: Eye movement desensitization and reprocessing EMDR is a psychotherapy that enables people to heal from the symptoms and emotional distress that are the result of disturbing life experiences.\u00a0 EMDR therapy shows that the mind can in fact heal from psychological trauma much as the body recovers from physical trauma.\u00a0When you cut your hand, your…","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gaby.us\/travmasolutions\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/147","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gaby.us\/travmasolutions\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gaby.us\/travmasolutions\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gaby.us\/travmasolutions\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gaby.us\/travmasolutions\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=147"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/gaby.us\/travmasolutions\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/147\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1123,"href":"https:\/\/gaby.us\/travmasolutions\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/147\/revisions\/1123"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gaby.us\/travmasolutions\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/35"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gaby.us\/travmasolutions\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=147"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gaby.us\/travmasolutions\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=147"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}