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Programs EMDR EMDR (eye movement desensitization and reprocessing): Traumatic events from the past that have not been sufficiently processed in the mind and stored away in the long term memory, can result in unexpected and unexplainable emotional and/or physiological symptoms. When this happens, panic attacks, unnecessary anxieties, nightmares, and other incapacitating effects reduce the quality of our health and well-being. These symptoms are often what brings people to mental health counseling or psychotherapy. One method of treatment is a form of bilateral stimulation of the brain known as EMDR (eye movement desensitization and reprocessing). EMDR allows an accelerated processing of information to occur so that distressing events from the past no longer trigger uncontrollable or unexpected emotional and physiological stress symptoms in the present. EMDR is used by a trained professional within a comprehensive treatment plan to assist in the mental health recovery and healing process. How does it work? After identifying one or more distressing memories, you will be asked a series of questions to determine how disturbing a particular memory is to you in the present, what negative beliefs this memory holds for you and how you would like for these beliefs to be changed to positive thoughts in the present. You will also be asked to identify any sensations in your body that this memory causes. After these issues have been discussed, the therapist will instruct you to follow her/his hand movements with your eyes while thinking of this past memory. Typically, as your eyes move side to side, other memories are stimulated in ways that your logical mind may have never linked before. You do not have to talk in detail about these memories, you just watch them occur in your mind as though you were traveling on a train and looking at them out the window, or as though you were watching a movie. From time to time, the therapist will stop and ask you to mention what you are experiencing. This process will continue until you feel calm and settled and the disturbance has reached some resolution. Finally, the therapist will provide some closure and some instructions for monitoring any continued processing over the time until your next therapy session.
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