What Is EMDR?
When you cut your finger, your mind and body work towards healing it. However, if the wound isn’t cleaned, it gets irritated and causes intense pain. Unless the injury is cleaned and the blockage is removed, the healing can’t begin. The same thing happens with mental processes. Eye movement desensitization and reprocessing, or EMDR therapy, is a highly effective therapy that identifies and removes the emotional wound that was causing intense suffering and helps you move towards healing and peace.
How Can EMDR Therapy Help?
While EMDR has been developed for the treatment of trauma, it is effective in helping individuals with anxiety, chronic pain, stress, and anger issues. It has also been used successfully to treat substance abuse problems and eating disorders.
EMDR therapy has shown to be very effective in treating PTSD, anxiety, depression, trauma, childhood trauma, panic attacks, stress, chronic pain and eating disorders in as little as 4-12 sessions. By using EMDR therapy, what would have once taken years to overcome, can now be done in a few sessions.
What To Expect?
At the start of your session, you and a trained EMDR therapists work together to identify the original memories or situations that are causing the emotional pain. These are the core traumas that have caused distress and are targets for reprocessing. Your therapist will show you different ways of reducing distress during and between sessions. The goal is to promote effective and rapid healing while keeping you in a peaceful state of mind.
How Does EMDR Work?
During your session, the EMDR therapist directs your eye movements while you relive small doses of your targeted traumatic memories. By using bilateral eye movements during your EMDR sessions, your therapist can help your brain slowly but surely process these traumatic memories without having to rehash them completely on its own first, making them easier to face and overcome.
EMDR Consultant – in – training
An EMDRIA Approved Consultant in Training™ (CIT) can provide some of the consultation hours to EMDR trained clinicians who are working towards EMDR Certification requirements. In order to provide the 10 hours of consultation that are required to complete the EMDR basic training, the CIT must contact the EMDR training provider directly. Each EMDR training provider designates which EMDRIA Approved Consultants™ and/or CITs may provide consultation hours to the trainees in their program.
An EMDRIA Approved Consultant in Training™ (CIT) can provide a maximum of 15 hours of consultation to an EMDR trained clinician who is working towards certification. EMDRIA Certification™ applicants must obtain 20 hours of consultation on their use of EMDR with clients. The remaining 5 hours of consultation must come from an EMDRIA Approved Consultant™. Although a CIT can provide a letter of recommendation for the consultee seeking certification, a letter of recommendation from an EMDRIA Approved Consultant™ is required for EMDRIA Certification™ application.