EMDR
How EMDR works for you
Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) is one research-backed, evidence-based tool. Today we know that trauma gets "stuck" in the brain, unable to be fully processed and sent to long-term memory storage, which occurs naturally during REM sleep
EMDR allows a person to safely reprocess traumatic images and attend to unproductive beliefs through both lobes of the brain, recreating REM sleep processing
This tells the brain the trauma has ended so it no longer needs to respond using survival skills, which allows for more adaptive responses
EMDR
For many years, the therapeutic community had very limited knowledge about how to effectively treat or even fully understand the complexities of trauma. Thanks to increased understanding about how trauma is stored in the brain, as well as its multi-faceted impacts, clinicians have developed more effective tools for treating trauma.