Know Everything About EMDR Therapy

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• Know Everything About EMDR Therapy

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What is EMDR Therapy?
Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing
therapy is an extensively researched, effective
psychotherapy method proven to help people
recover from trauma and other distressing life
experiences, including PTSD, anxiety, depression,
and panic disorders. During EMDR Therapy
sessions, you relive traumatic or triggering
experiences in brief doses while the therapist
directs your eye movements. Over time, this
technique is believed to lessen the impact that
the memories or thoughts have on you.
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Benefits of EMDR therapy?

• People who are dealing with traumatic memories
  and those who have PTSD are thought to benefit
  the most from EMDR therapy.
• Although there is not sufficient research to
  prove its effectiveness in these areas, EMDR
  therapy is also being used to treat
• Depression
• Anxiety
• Panic Attacks
• Eating Disorders
• Addictions

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How does EMDR therapy affect the brain?
Our brains have a natural way to recover from
traumatic memories and events. This process
involves communication between the amygdale, the
hippocampus, and the prefrontal cortex which
analyzes and controls behaviour and emotion.
While many times traumatic experiences can be
managed and resolved spontaneously, they may not
be processed without help. EMDR therapy helps
the brain process these memories, and allows
normal healing to resume. The experience is still
remembered, but the fight, flight, or freeze
response from the original event is resolved.
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How Effective is EMDR therapy?
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Multiple independent and controlled studies have
shown that EMDR therapy is an effective treatment
for PTSD.  Study found that EMDR therapy helped
77 percent of the individuals with psychotic
disorder and PTSD. It found that their
hallucinations, delusions, anxiety, and
depression symptoms were significantly improved
after treatment. The study also found that
symptoms were not exacerbated during
treatment. Several small studies have also found
evidence that EMDR therapy is not only effective
in the short term, but that its effects can be
maintained long term.
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How does EMDR therapy work?