What is EMDR Therapy?

What is EMDR Therapy?
EMDR - eye movement desensitising reprocessing is an evidenced based therapy that only registered psychologists and Psychotherapists can train in. The World Health Organization states that EMDR "is based on the idea that negative thoughts, feelings are the result of unprocessed memories. It’s said to stimulate the left and right hemisphere of the brain to cause eye movement similar to those that we have in REM sleep. It’s believed that when we are having REM eye movements in sleep we are processing emotions from past events. We get people to have these eye movements when they are awake to desensitise to past trauma so that it doesn’t effect them any more.

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[-Ray_Moon-]

Thank you for this! My therapist said she is going to do emdr therapy with me and I had no idea what that meant, this definitely explained it to me

[eles]

This process has been very difficult but the hard work produces results. It can be scary, but thankfully my nightmares and panic attacks have drastically dwindled. My quality of life has improved.

[stephanier]

Polite correction. It is inaccurate to state that only psychologists or psychotherapists can be trained in EMDR. That is false. Certain physicians, psychiatrists, certain nursing degrees (MS and higher i.e. RN with a specialty is psychiatric/mental health nursing), social workers, and certain grad students (not 1st year) are just some of the professionals (and non-licensed grad students) who can be trained in EMDR. This can also vary from state to state, and country to country.

[PotBotorg]

I started doing the hemisync brain entrainment -where the brain by using byneral beats to entrain the brain to sync to any number brain frequencies associated with any desired brain state, i was literally abel to remember incredible details of past experience good and bad of details of places and objects that I had absolutely forgotten with the level of detail that you could have in the present moment as detailed as choosing to right now effortlessly looking at the shirt you are wearing right now in THIS present moment. It's crazy that this even possible.. but it is ..

[jasona]

I truly hope so!! I strongly claim and affirm this reading ❤❤❤

[oksanakaido]

So would the client have to talk through these negative memories while doing the eye movements? Or do the eye movements help on their own? No one really explains this part.

[Xarz]

How did psychologist came up with the initial idea for this? Were they smoking weed??

[Katie-mekp]

Is this type of thing expensive? Is it covered by anyone?...

[ephesiansten]

...and then listen to some jazz on a rainy day...

[loribaudler]

EMDR therapy.... Children who are being treated with this .... Can a manipulative adult play with memories... Possibly create memories to replace a life experience?