Improve your treatment results with EMDR
Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) is a method of psychotherapy that has been extensively researched and proven effective for the treatment of Post Traumatic Stress Disorder. EMDR is a set of standardized protocols that incorporates elements from many different treatment approaches. To date, EMDR has helped an estimated two million people of all ages from all over the world relieve many types of psychological stress. Thanks to the discovery of EMDR by Dr. Francine Shapiro, PHD. EMDR is a cutting edge psychotherapy that helps the participants change the paradigm of their negative experiences and gain mastery over their lives.
EMDR has a direct effect on changing the way the brain processes information. When a person is very upset, their brain cannot process information normally. A disturbing event may become "frozen in time," for the individual and relived over and over again with the same images, sounds, smells, and feelings as the original event. With EMDR the event is processed, the flooding of overwhelming stimuli stops and the participant has a sense of mastery over what has happened to them. Following a successful EMDR session the participant remembers the event from a historical perspective, but no longer relives the images, sounds, and feelings when the event is brought to mind. Through Pet scans Dr. Bessel van der Kolk, MD. found a quieting in the limbic system with EMDR and an increase in pre-frontal lobe activity.
In 1996, I went to my first training in EMDR. As a psychotherapist with seventeen years experience I was initially skeptical of the claims of the effects using EMDR. In the training, the therapists practiced the eight phase protocol on each other. I was blown away by my personal experience. I continued with my training and supervision and have found this psychotherapy to be the most effective therapy I have seen in my now twenty-eight years as a psychotherapist. A single episode trauma maybe processed in three to five sessions. I have made significant progress with complex trauma patients in a much shorter time frame than I had previously using other treatment modalities. I believe you can improve your treatment results and further help your patients with EMDR.
For more research and information go to emdria.org
Diane Clayton, MSW, LCSW 239-851-4438
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