What kind of therapy is EMDR?
Today, EMDR therapy is widely being used around the world. It uses elements of many therapeutic approaches such as psychodynamic, cognitive, behavioural, and client-centered. These different therapeutic approaches are used in combination with eye movements or other forms of rhythmic bilateral stimulation such as listening to tones or feeling hand taps while attending to a memory. This stimulates the brain’s information processing system leading to rapid adaptive changes in the emotions, thoughts, sensations and behaviours linked to memory. EMDR helps a person access their inner resources. After an EMDR session, the upsetting event may still be remembered, but it is less distressing and the negative beliefs are transformed to more positive and appropriate beliefs for the person’s present-day life. Top of Page What makes EMDR work? Researchers think that EMDR is able to neurologically shift traumatic memories so they can be quickly reprocessed and integrated by the brain. In this way, EM
