EMDR Therapy for Women, Teens & Couples | Pleasant Hill, CA | 94523
and a host of other challenges.
EMDR can accelerate therapy by resolving the impact of your past traumas and allowing you to live more fully in the present. It is not, however, appropriate for everyone. The process is rapid, and any disturbing experiences, if they occur at all, last for a comparatively short period of time. Nevertheless, you need to be aware of, and willing to experience, the strong feelings and disturbing thoughts, which sometimes occur during sessions. Prior to any processing, we will go through a resourcing process that should give you more emotional resources to call upon during these sessions. Still, if it is deemed that EMDR would prove too intensive for you, given a past history of depersonalization, EMDR would likely not be a good option without additional psychotherapy first. In addition, because it is important for you to be able to feel your difficult feelings during the EMDR process, if you find that your challenging feeling are more difficult to access, additional psychotherapy might be necessary to make those feeling available.
EMDR is an innovative clinical treatment which has successfully helped over a million individuals. The validity and reliability of EMDR has been established by rigorous research. There are now nineteen controlled studies into EMDR making it the most thoroughly researched method used in the treatment of trauma, (Details on www.emdria.org and www.emdr.org) and is recommended by the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE) as an effective treatment for PTSD.
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