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What is EMDR? EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing), as with most therapy approaches, focuses on the individual’s present concerns. The EMDR approach believes past emotionally-charged experiences are overly influencing your What is different about EMDR? present emotions, sensations, and • EMDR focuses on the brain’s thoughts about yourself. As an ability to constantly learn, taking example: “Do you ever feel worthless past experiences, and updating although you know you are a them with present information. worthwhile person?” • Adaptive learning is constantly updating memory network EMDR processing helps you break systems. through the emotional blocks that are What is • Past emotionally-charged keeping you from living an adaptive, experiences often interfere with emotionally healthy life. your updating process. EMDR uses rapid sets of eye • EMDR breaks through that movements to help you update EMDR? interference and helps let go of disturbing experiences, much like what (Eye Movement Desensitization & Reprocessing) the past and update your occurs when we sleep. During sleep, experiences to a healthier we alternate between regular sleep and present perspective. REM (rapid eye movement). This sleep • EMDR uses a set of procedures to pattern helps you process things that organize your negative and positive are troubling you. feelings, emotions, and thoughts, and then uses bilateral stimulation, EMDR replicates this sleep pattern by such as eye movements or alternating between sets of eye alternating tapping, as the way to movements and brief reports about help you effectively work through what you are noticing. This alternating those disturbing memories. process helps you update your EMDR Consulting, LLC memories to a healthier present www.emdrconsulting.com perspective. What does an EMDR session look like? Is it necessary to tell my therapist all the details about my problems in order for them to be processed? • No, it is not necessary to talk about all the details of your experiences for them to be processed. Overall Treatment Planning Will I get emotional? • You have come to treatment expressing concerns. • Yes, you may. Emotions and • Your therapist will help you understand the dynamics of the presenting concerns and sensations may come up during how to adaptively manage them. processing; although, you will be • An overall treatment plan will be developed that will accomplish your goals. prepared and your therapist will help • Within that treatment plan, EMDR, along with other therapy approaches, will be used you safely manage them. Once they to accomplish your treatment goals. are processed, they rarely come back! The EMDR session: Is EMDR like hypnosis? • You will be asked a set of questions to access and activate the negative experience and • No. During EMDR processing, you the desired adaptive resolution. are present and fully in control. • Sets of rapid eye movement (or other forms of bilateral stimulation) will be applied. Is EMDR a brief treatment? • You will be encouraged to just “free associate” and allow the brain to work through the experience. • EMDR, as with all treatment • Sets of eye movements will be alternated with brief reports about what you are approaches, will help you accomplish experiencing. your treatment goals. • EMDR processing will continue until the past experience has been updated to an • The length of time that it takes is adaptive present perspective. dependent upon the complexity of • With long standing issues, this process may take multiple sessions. your problems. • Frequently, EMDR is only one of Using what you’ve learned several treatment approaches that • Once the disturbing experiences have been updated, you and your therapist will work will be used to help you reach together to integrate these new insights and perspectives into your daily life. your treatment goals. Provided by EMDR Consulting, LLC: www.emdrconsulting.com
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