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What is Eye Movement Desensitization Reprocessing Therapy?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1IPsBPH2M1U

There are a few therapies that work especially welI and eye movement desensitization and reprocessing or EMDR, is one for PTSD.

EMDR is an evidence based treatment,which means it's been proven to be effective

more often than most other types of therapy.

During EMDR, a trained therapist

works with a person to keep the sessions comfortable and relaxed, but also to achieve

the goals they set together.

1. Relaxation and breathing exercises might be taught early in the sessions, so they can be used later.

2.People then talk about the memories that have been most difficult for them.

3.While they're telling the stories of their trauma, they're also watching something right in front of them such a moving lights or the tip of a pencil being waved back and forth.

4.The repetitive eye movement can be distracting or calming, and telling the story becomes easier.

This is desensitization.

5. Next the feelings that go with the memories of awful, traumatic moments

or years of traumatic moments can change! Those feelings shift during therapy and how people think about themselves in relation to their memories can be dramatically different following EMDR.

This is reprocessing.

The memories start to have far less power than they did before the treatment.

The best news is that EMDR usually doesn't take that long!

The feeling that a person is stuck in the past can change with EMDR. People with PTSD can become fully present and live their lives the way they intend. PTSD can be treated, and people can get back to the lives they want to live.

EMDR Therapy: Demonstration & Step-by-Step Walkthrough

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M2ra8p4MSOk

EMDR Therapy Demonstration: Phases 1-8

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L6UvKhLYf7w

Phase 1: Client History (1:05) Phase 2: Preparation (4:21) Phase 3: Assessment (15:48) Phase 4: Desensitization (19:25) Phase 5: Installation (43:35) Phase 6: Body Scan (49:36) Phase 7: Closure (56:40) Phase 8: Reevaluation (57:44)