Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR
Your Story Counseling offers individual, couples and family trauma and sex therapy counseling for a variety of needs.
Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) is a psychotherapeutic treatment that was originally designed to alleviate anxiety associated with traumatic memories (Shapiro, 1989a, 1989b). Shapiro’s (2001) model of adaptive information processing posits that EMDR therapy facilitates the access and processing of traumatic memories and other adverse life experiences to bring them to an adaptive resolution. After successful treatment with EMDR therapy, affective problems are alleviated, negative beliefs are reformulated and physiological arousal is reduced. During EMDR therapy, the client attends to emotionally disturbing material in short bursts while simultaneously focusing on an external stimulus. The most commonly used external stimulus is therapist-directed lateral eye movements, but a variety of other stimuli including hand tapping and sound stimulation are often used (Shapiro, 1991). Shapiro (1995, 2001) posits that EMDR therapy facilitates access to the traumatic memory network so that information processing is enhanced with new associations formed between the traumatic memory and more adaptive memories or information. These new associations are thought to lead to full processing of information, new learning, elimination of emotional stress, and development of cognitive insights. EMDR therapy uses a three-point protocol: (1) past events that laid the foundation for the dysfunction are processed, creating new associative links with adaptive information; (2) are focused on current anxiety-provoking circumstances and are desensitized to internal and external triggers; (3) imaginal templates of future events are incorporated to help the client acquire the skills needed for adaptive functioning.
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