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Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) in San Jose, CA
Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) is a form of "eye movement therapy" which is a type of psychotherapy.
EMDR owes much of its original roots to methods that were developed in Neuro Linguistic Programming (NLP).
EMDR can rapidly help people to resolve painful or disturbing memories.
There are a number of phases in an EMDR treatment,
but the majority of the focus is on discussing a particular memory, while alternately having the client move their
eyes in a side-to-side motion.
This motion, called "Bilateral Stimulation," appears to help facilitate communication between both hemispheres
of the brain.
How EMDR Can Help
There are two primary ways in which EMDR can help; 1) accessing or retrieving repressed memories, and 2) processing past or present traumatic events.
In dealing with memory retrieval, EMDR is based on the idea that some of the fears we all face are merely earlier life experiences that are locked in
our nervous system. These are stored as trauma in the brain, in the form of memory networks.
In trauma, great or small, information processing is disrupted because the integration of components of an event
is blocked. As a consequence,
when the memory is brought to mind, the feelings are re-experienced rather than simply remembered. This
can be either conscious or unconscious
and accounts for much of our emotional pain.
EMDR can help to restart and accelerate processing. When this happens, it is possible to learn what you
need to know from these difficult
experiences and discard the rest. Once this is done, you can choose your actions rather than being
propelled by automatic re-actions.
As EMDR accelerates information processing, it can be applied to a wide range of the problems that hold us back in life.
As science uncovers,
more and more, how the brain/mind functions, we are learning that psychotherapy which focuses on trauma-resolution
of all kinds actually helps
and heals an extensive range of maladies not previously thought to be trauma-related. EMDR helps top further facilitate
this process.
Due to the historical success of applying EMDR to certain areas of distress, EMDR psychotherapists now
routinely treat clinical problems where
EMDR has been seen to produce considerable success:
- Posttraumatic stress
- Acute stress
- Generalized anxiety
- Depression and depressed mood
- Acting-out problems in children and adolescents
- Sleep disruptions and nightmares
- Phobias
- Substance use and impulse control disruptions of many kinds
- Anger management problems
- Chronic pain management
- Abuse and Trauma
- Grief and Loss
- Relationship Concerns
- Self Esteem
- Codependency
- Performance Enhancement
Specific results will vary from person to person. Speed of healing for single event traumas has been demonstrated
by research to take one to three 90 minute sessions for about 80 to 90% of clients. Those who have an early history of trauma, abuse or neglect
will take correspondingly longer to heal than those recovering from a single event trauma. In addition, clients and therapists alike report that
healing through EMDR is more rapid than traditional approaches to talk therapy.
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