EMDR Therapy

What is EMDR Therapy?

EMDR Therapy stands for “Eye Movement Desensitisation and Reprocessing” Therapy. It makes use of eye movement to facilitate the reprocessing of certain past memories/events that have left a negative impact on the person. The negative impact surrounds these five main themes:

personal defectiveness : feeling as if one is bad, unlovable, not good enough or incompetent
- person carrying such theme/”burden” in them might see overcompensation behaviors such as people-pleasing, trying to be “perfect” in whatever they do, being critical of themselves
responsibility: feeling at fault, unforgivable, and that they have not done enough or should have done more
- feels responsible and guilty for others’ emotions and actions. Restricted in their way of being because they always have to care about the other person.
safety: feeling like they are going to die, not safe, cannot trust the situation or anyone.
- comes from encountering a dangerous situation in the past. The perception, emotions and bodily reactions that were happening at that moment to allow the person to survive were still very much alive in the present.
control: feeling not in control, helpless, trapped
- experience a lot of fear. Demonstrate defensive behaviours to protect themselves like pushing people away, retorting anything said by others. Go into depressed state, feeling like nothing will work out.
belonging: feeling alone, disconnected and not belonging anywhere
- experience sense of loneliness and emptiness that no one can fill.

What can EMDR therapy do?

By reprocessing the negative events that led to the above mentioned themes/burden that the person is carrying, they can come to a more positive or helpful state of thinking/being. That is made possible with appropriate resourcing done before the start of the processing and the intervention done between the processing if client appears stuck.

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