Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing therapy has become widely used as a gold standard for long-term recovery from symptoms.
When we set out to begin EMDR, we are looking to notice both positive and negative experiences that have influenced your perceptions, feelings, thoughts, and behaviors. The saying that “the past is the present” is a way of acknowledging that what stressful and/or traumatic experiences that have shaped our “filter” that we wear when we see the present. The memory network embedded in our brain and nervous system stores this for us. Did you ever think you knew what you needed to stop thinking about or that you want badly to move forward, stop feeling like you are still in the stress from a long time ago, or worrying less about the future?
EMDR therapy helps us to get unstuck so those old feelings, thoughts, and body sensations do not keep affecting our lives today.
Many of the current problems that people come to therapy for such as anxiety, depression, and relationship difficulties are rooted in memories of traumatic or adverse life experiences. Identifying and reprocessing these memories is a focus of EMDR treatment. EMDR therapy is designed to create the conditions to activate the brain’s processing abilities and aid in the recovery process.
While using teletherapy, we have options to provide the bilateral stimulation needed to help the brain connect to more adaptive information. This is considered one of the most effective treatments for recovering from traumatic stress that commonly leads to PTSD.
