Trauma, PTSD and EMDR:
EMDR is a comprehensive therapy approach, useful for overcoming stressful experiences of all kinds — even deeply embedded traumas, which can be the basis of your depression, anxiety, relationship challenges, phobias, fears, or
What does EMDR stand for?
EMDR stands for "Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing". Much research has now demonstrated that Eye Movements can help our brains to calm distressed memories and negative thoughts that we've been stuck in.
How does EMDR therapy work?
Curious brain researchers have theories, but no one has figured it out for sure yet. The brain scans in scientific research studies about Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) reveal a lot about what EMDR can do.
What can the EMDR therapy approach do for me?
If stressful, negative experiences hit us when we are vulnerable, and we don't receive the support and safety we need, the emotional and negative beliefs about ourselves can become "stuck" in our brains and whole beings. EMDR is very good at getting us "unstuck". That is why the pictures below are so powerful, showing brain activity before EMDR sessions and brain activity after 3 EMDR sessions. The distress in our brain trapping us as if we are in a small, uncomfortable prison, or chrysalis.EMDR helps "unlock" the prison, allowing our brain to return to a healthy state. Figuratively speaking, you are then free to move, stretch your wings, and fly.
EMDR stands for "Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing". Much research has now demonstrated that Eye Movements can help our brains to calm distressed memories and negative thoughts that we've been stuck in.
How does EMDR therapy work?
Curious brain researchers have theories, but no one has figured it out for sure yet. The brain scans in scientific research studies about Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) reveal a lot about what EMDR can do.
What can the EMDR therapy approach do for me?
If stressful, negative experiences hit us when we are vulnerable, and we don't receive the support and safety we need, the emotional and negative beliefs about ourselves can become "stuck" in our brains and whole beings. EMDR is very good at getting us "unstuck". That is why the pictures below are so powerful, showing brain activity before EMDR sessions and brain activity after 3 EMDR sessions. The distress in our brain trapping us as if we are in a small, uncomfortable prison, or chrysalis.EMDR helps "unlock" the prison, allowing our brain to return to a healthy state. Figuratively speaking, you are then free to move, stretch your wings, and fly.
Why does EMDR Therapy work so well, quickly and comprehensively ?
Francine Shapiro, PhD, the developer and original researcher of EMDR, observed that our brain has an "Adaptive Information Processing System." Stress and trauma can cause the system to get stuck, and no longer work well.
With EMDR calming the distressed memories, health can return naturally and quickly to our brains.Our old, distressed memories become stored in the healthy way our brains are meant to work. We can see that the bad experience is truly over, and that we are free to go forward in the present and future with a brain that has recovered its strengths.
Francine Shapiro, PhD, the developer and original researcher of EMDR, observed that our brain has an "Adaptive Information Processing System." Stress and trauma can cause the system to get stuck, and no longer work well.
With EMDR calming the distressed memories, health can return naturally and quickly to our brains.Our old, distressed memories become stored in the healthy way our brains are meant to work. We can see that the bad experience is truly over, and that we are free to go forward in the present and future with a brain that has recovered its strengths.