EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitization & Reprocessing)

EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing) is a psychotherapy that enables people to heal from the symptoms and emotional distress that are the result of disturbing life experiences. 

Eye Movement Desensitization & Reprocessing is an eight-phase treatment method, which includes history taking, client preparation, assessment, desensitization, installation, body scan, closure and reevaluation of treatment effect.  This focused approach treats traumatic and other symptoms by reconnecting the client in a safe and measured way to the images, self-thoughts, emotions, and body sensations associated with the trauma, and allowing the natural healing powers of the brain to move toward adaptive resolution.  

Controlled  studies using EMDR show a high percentage of single-trauma victims no longer have post-traumatic stress disorder after only three 90-minute sessions. 

EMDR therapy is now recognized as an effective form of treatment for trauma and other disturbing experiences by organizations such as the American Psychiatric Association, the World Health Organization and the Department of Defense.