After finishing weekend one for almost a month now, it’s dawned on me how effective EMDR Therapy can be. I’ve been testing it with about 4 clients so far, and most of them have reported remarkable changes.

Yet, I’ve also realized that after the EMDR, almost always, other things crop up. In my initial case, the individual facing anxiety ended up revealing many more things about her relationships in real life. I realized that the anxiety could have merely been a symptom that blocked the root issues. I suppose when people are not too resourceful, they get into an emotional spiral that prevents them from resolving the actual roots of their problems

I wrote yesterday about my first day’s training experience with EMDR Therapy. So far, I must say that the implications for using EMDR in a therapeutic setting as I have experienced are pretty intriguing.

photo credit: Jon Olav

It focuses a lot on re-organizing the memories in a client’s mind. So, what’s the difference between doing this and, say, Re-imprinting Therapy?

1. EMDR has been explored through academic rigor. You need a big team of people to research this area and I can see the end result of a very organized team that put the EMDR training curriculum together.