EMDR Therapy
EMDR
EMDR therapy has proven to be effective in treating trauma and PTSD. It may also be able to help treat other mental conditions like anxiety, depression, and panic disorders. Some people may prefer this treatment to prescription medications, which can have unexpected side effects.
During EMDR therapy, your therapist will ask you to think of an upsetting memory, while bilateral stimulation is applied. While bilateral stimulation can be visual, auditory or tactile, depending on what you respond to best, traditionally, EMDR is administered using visual stimulation; you rapidly move your eyes back and forth to follow your therapists’ fingers, which are moving quickly from side-to side. This is done until your memory of the trauma shifts into something that feels less troublesome.
All healing is first a healing of the heart
Carl Townsend
