What is EMDR Therapy?
What is EMDR Therapy?
EMDR - eye movement desensitising reprocessing is an evidenced based therapy that only registered psychologists and Psychotherapists can train in. The World Health Organization states that EMDR "is based on the idea that negative thoughts, feelings are the result of unprocessed memories. It’s said to stimulate the left and right hemisphere of the brain to cause eye movement similar to those that we have in REM sleep. It’s believed that when we are having REM eye movements in sleep we are processing emotions from past events. We get people to have these eye movements when they are awake to desensitise to past trauma so that it doesn’t effect them any more.
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