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Eye Movement Desensitization & Reprocessing, EMDR
EMDR is in the guidelines of the American Psychiatric Association (APA), Dept of Defense (DoD), Veterans Administration (VA), and World Health Organization (WHO). It is 'Strongly recommended for PTSD' and associated symptoms as anxiety, fearfulness, depression, loss, mourning, and OCD.
EMDR, developed in the '80s, is a bilateral stimulus, usually visual, sometimes tactile and auditory, that defuses the emotional charge associated with a trauma; 70% of the effect is via bilateral visual effect. In the process of activating and defusing a trauma, the trauma can momentarily feel more vivid before fading. Processing through this phase resolves feelings and often visuals of the trauma. Post resolution, talking about the event elicits no emotional reaction.
EMDR unfreezes locked trauma in the brain-body. We can resolve grief, depression, anxiety, PTSD in 1-3 sessions, typically. A contained trauma is resolved in 1-3 sessions. Ongoing childhood traumas, where we must explore for causal issues usually elicits a LENS recommendation to flush/expedite finding essential issues. When we combine LENS prior EMDR, it expedites the EMDR process. Suppression opens through LENS brain reorganization and EMDR corpus collosum activation simultaneously.