EMDR Therapy Process

During your Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) Therapy session, your therapist will ask you to revisit a disturbing or traumatic incident that is negatively affecting your life. You will need to recall the feelings, negative thoughts, and memories associated with this particular incident or moment. As you visualize this incident, you will receive bilateral stimulation by allowing your eyes to follow a light or your therapist’s fingers, simulating the movement that takes place in the REM state when you are dreaming. While you focus on the lights, your eye movements process these images. This reprocessing results in the exchange of painful feelings for more loving, peaceful, and resolved feelings.

Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing Therapy affects the way your brain processes information

After a successful EMDR session, you will no longer relive the sounds, images and feelings associated with the traumatic incident or moment that we focused on. You will still remember the event; however, it will be less upsetting to you. Your EMDR therapy session has essentially rebooted your brain concerning these past disturbances. This allows you to view them in a new, less distressing way.