EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing) is the state-of the-art modality for healing trauma and symptoms of Post-Traumatic-Stress-Disorder. I’ve had significant, positive results with my clients using this technique.  It has been effective in helping my clients deal with processing and releasing unwanted emotional blocks and other  effects of trauma including anxiety, depression, protracted grief, physical ailments, sleep disturbances, fatigue, phobias, nightmares, and flashbacks.

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EMDR reprocesses memory fragments (visual, tactile, auditory, etc.) that have not been fully integrated (i.e. that never “made it”) into long term memory, thus result in symptoms. When we are traumatized, our left and right brains disengage much as a home’s circuit breaker kicks in when an electrical storm overloads it. The result is that the right brain, which processes sensory experiences and emotions, does not have the benefit of the logical and rational processes of the left brain to help make sense of traumatic experiences and thus provide emotional closure.  

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Here is what experts and the media have said about EMDR:

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• “Recent independent studies have found EMDR up to 90% successful.” –   Association for the Advancement of Science

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• “Ideal for those who have been unable to forget traumatic life events.”                   – Christine Bowenkamp, RN, CTR, Disaster Mental Health, American Red Cross

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• “EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing) provides “a way for people to free themselves of destructive memories and it seems to work, even in cases where years of conventional therapy have failed. – Hugh Downs, 20/20, ABC News

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• EMDR… which to newcomers sounds implausible and way too good to be true, may become the psychological wonder cure of the nineties, the non-pharmaceutical equivalent of Prozac.” – New York Magazine

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• “Within two or three or four sessions, we had resolved issues that I’d been discussing for four or five years with other people” – Eric Smith, Vietnam veteran suffering from PTSD, quoted on 20/20, ABC News

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• “In four, hour long EMDR…sessions I was able to get at issues that years with other therapists couldn’t touch.” – Sherry Morgan, rape trauma survivor, quoted in the Orange County Register

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• “EMDR…is the most revolutionary, important method to emerge in psychotherapy in decades.” – Herbert Fensterheim, Cornell University​

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