EMDR can help you with:
- With Post Traumatic Stress Disorder symptoms
- Such as nightmares, fears and anger
- Combat veterans
- Persons with phobias and panic disorder
- Crime victims and police officers or firefighters
- Excessive grief
- People exposed to natural disasters
- Sexual assault victims.
- Burn and accident victims
What is EMDR:
Is an empirically validated treatment for mental health problems that stem from loss, trauma or abuse. Instead of spending months or even years for victims of trauma can now get results in as little as a single session of EMDR. It has been endorsed by the Department of the Defense and the Veterans Administration for the management of PTSD.
Trauma can overwhelm the brain and it’s chemistry, creating stress hormones like adrenaline that can shrivel the hippocampus as it goes into survival mode. The helplessness of being victimized blocks problem solving and learning from experience. Emotions often become repressed or cut off. EMDR brings them to the surface and recreates alternative networks and healing to the hippocampus so that it can be restored to normal. Trauma is no longer imprinted on the brain after the painful memories are digested so that the disabling emotions associated with the events are neutralized and dissipated.
After the therapist asks clients to envision a safe place and reviews self care tools, she visualizes her trauma, then the therapist has the client focus on hand movements, sounds or taps create eye movements similar to those of REM Sleep (the deep sleep stage when we dream and process events). The therapist goes at a pace and intensity that is calm and gentle.
One client described it like a laser bean that blasts through old stuck places. 2/3 of those who participated in a study made huge improvements and were able to distance themselves from the traumatic experience. Enjoy life and their relationships, increase optimism.
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