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Could EMDR Be The Most Powerful Tool For Overcoming Trauma?
Unprocessed trauma can lead to a variety of debilitating physical and emotional symptoms. However, what if there was a way to reprocess your trauma? EMDR could be the tool that unlocks the door to healing.
Originally, EMDR was used to treat trauma in relation to PTSD. However, now there are a variety of issues that therapists pull EMDR out of their tool belt to treat.
Keep reading as we'll talk about why EMDR may be the most powerful tool a therapist can use to help clients find closure and healing.
What makes EMDR different?
By design, EMDR aims to help you reprocess your trauma. During the process, you're able to sort out the emotions as you detach them from your experience. Ultimately, the goal is to free you from the symptoms or memories that are interfering with your life. Although your memories will not magically disappear, the emotion and negative connections tied to them can. Instead of debilitating triggers, you may no longer feel an emotional reaction at all. Furthermore, you may experience new, positive thoughts about yourself and the world around you.
You may wonder if your trauma is "big enough" to reprocess. Keep in mind, EMDR is not only for major traumas. For example, maybe you were teased at school. Or, you may recall an event from your childhood that seems to be emotionally disturbing. Through EMDR, you may be able to reprocess the situation and any negative perceptions tied to it.
EMDR works by accessing both hemispheres in your brain at the same time. For example, you might hold a tapper in each hand. As memories move to the forefront of your mind, your therapist will guide you through a series of questions. Then, as you address them specifically, your counselor will continue to guide you through each stage of the process.
At some point during your session, your therapist will direct you to move your eyes from left to right, usually by following their finger. With access to both sides of the brain, you're able to reprocess your trauma and replace memories with new, positive thoughts and beliefs.
Next, your therapist helps you reinforce and strengthen new positive feelings and beliefs. The goal of EMDR is to get to a point where memories of your trauma no longer affect you.
Where can I get EMDR treatments?
At Thrive Relational Recovery, our therapists are EMDR certified. I believe EMDR is the most powerful tool I have in my tool belt as a therapist. I would describe it as almost miraculous in its ability to provide closure for traumatic memories and permanently change our faulty perceptions of ourselves and the world. We help many clients reprocess their trauma through EMDR. We would love to see if we can help you find the closure you deserve. Please, visit our website or call us today to learn more.
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