EMDR Therapy Explained: What is It?

This video explains the basics of EMDR therapy, including introductory information about how it works and what to expect in an EMDR session. Individuals considering EMDR for themselves or professionals considering making referrals to EMDR will find this video informational.
Learn more about EMDR here - www.emdria.org/
or here - www.phoenixtraumacenter.com/s...
Seeking EMDR therapy in Pennsylvania? Consider reaching out to us at the Phoenix Center in Media, PA - www.phoenixtraumacenter.com/
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[@MyDogBen]

The way you explained the science behind it is very helpful.

[@PhoenixTraumaCenter]

Glad it was helpful!

[@richardrowe1538]

Thanks, I am thinking of venturing into EMDR training. I see many veterans in my practice and believe learning this therapy model would be helpful to my clients.

[@PhoenixTraumaCenter]

Happy to help!

[@user-ge9vt9hn8k]

Thank You, I really Appreciate it as future Psychiatrist.

[@PhoenixTraumaCenter]

Glad it was helpful!

[@taylorlconner]

Thank you! Very helpful information

[@PhoenixTraumaCenter]

Glad it was helpful!

[@miacarbery2585]

Thank you for this great explanation!

[@PhoenixTraumaCenter]

Glad it was helpful!

[@LandonGavin]

Thank you for making this video. My therapist is wanting to start me with EMDR soon. Knowing I need a support group in case of traumas surfacing has me questioning if now is the best time to take this approach. Thanks again.

[@angelamossucco2190]

ACA is a good support group. Best wishes.

[@nedazamani4256]

Tanks, learned alot ❤

[@PhoenixTraumaCenter]

Glad to hear that!

[@jamesyoungquist6923]

Thank you

[@PhoenixTraumaCenter]

You're welcome!

[@marypower1261]

ECT damage. Can you recover lost (STOLEN) memories through EMDR? Was reduced to a virtual vegetable with intensive multiple ECTs + max level drugs. Parts of me never recovered. I desperately WANT to remember what happened. Some memories have come back - but its the blank spaces, the executive dysfunction which made me unemployable for the rest of my life. It all happened 48 years ago i am still overwhelmed every time a new scrap of memory comes back. And for God's sake don't advise me go to a psychiatrist!!!

[@AnjoGal]

I often wonder if this is why ASMR often helps with my anxiety & depression. It helps me go to sleep when I'm feeling overwhelmed with too many intrusive racing thoughts.

[@BigManJake69]

It is most likely a relaxation technique to calm you down before sleeping, relieving your nervous system by pleasing sensory information and shifting the negative thoughts and feelings to the back of your mind rather than processed. But possibly the grounding of calming sensory stimuli helps you to ground in the safety of the present instead of living in your mind where your nervous system was previously overstimulated therefore having a dual impact in helping you sleep and be relaxed :) EMDR would still be very helpful to process these thoughts and feelings that are triggering the bodily and mental reactivity causing anxiety and depression if it is traumatically rooted. This is because instead of coping with the impact of the trauma, it is processing the memory to the long-term store by addressing it which can eliminate the unconscious impacts of it being unprocessed and fragmented in your unconscious that is contributing to your distress :)

[@ekleru]

wow! is your name really Doctor?

[@stevebarker6087]

It seems far too simplistic to me and the theory proposed seems very tenuous. Just becuase you have REM sleep it doesnt mean that during that REM sleep you are dealing with memories or experiences in a positive or effective way. I have dreams and nightmares nearly every night and im left feeling disturbed when i often wake from these feeling tired and not very motivated during the day

[@user-ti1ms6gx5l]

Do we actually have to talk about the tragic events or just think about it?

[@PhoenixTraumaCenter]

Emdr can be done without talking about the trauma

[@NeonDungeon]

If you have to explain something like this and defend it so much its probably bulls**t.

[@BigManJake69]

He literally used scientific rationale to explain something? In this case does this mean everything ever produced by science is bs? Jesus christ mr Neon Dungeon

[@damirstantic3572]

Im sorry you had a bad day❤

[@djhcdjjfjllgfth]

Thinking about anything multiple times can eventually desensitize you to the thought regardless of the movement of your eyes... so yeah, idk how substantial the eye movement actually is.

[@bettymoore6135]

Shut up and get to the point

[@apollontheintp3257]

Mildly inappropriate!