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Combat Veterans, Phobias, Panic disorders, Crime victims, Police officers, Emergency service personnel, Excessive grief problems,  Assault, Natural disaster survivors,  Sexual assault victims, Accident, Surgery and burn victims, Sexual dysfunction, Dissociative disorders, Chemical dependency, performance anxiety, Somatoform disorders, Chronic pain, Complex PTSD & Personality disorders.

These are some of the problems that have been reported with  positive Therapeutic results directly related to EMDR.

I am a EMDR clinician and would be pleased to answer any questions you may have relating to this subject.

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EMDR is a psychotherapeutic approach originally developed by Francine Shapiro designed to treat traumatic or "dysfunctional" memories and experiences and their psychological consequences. The procedure has mainly been used in the treatment of Post Traumatic Stress Disorder. However clinicians have been increasingly using EMDR to treat , grief, phobias, anxiety, panic disorders, pain, sexual dysfunction, rape and a wide range of  other disorders disorders.

. EMDR was , and the procedure has mainly been used in the treatment of Post Traumatic Stress Disorder. However EMDR has been increasingly used over the years to treat e.g., grief, phobias, test and performance anxiety, anxiety and panic disorders, pain, sexual dysfunction, and a wide range of experientially based disorders.

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EMDR is an evidence based therapeutic procedure developed by clinical and research findings. Most of the stages in EMDR utilise procedures  from other well-known therapies, however they are  arranged in a unique order. There are three elements to the processing :-

1)  Bilateral stimulation usually in the form of eye movements,

 2) Bilateral auditory stimulation,

3) Tactile stimulation.

There is a great deal of evidence that bilateral stimulation speeds up the reprocessing of disturbing emotional or traumatic material and at the same time helps the client feel safer in making contact with traumatic material. It is believed that the eye movements induced in EMDR mirrors/mimics what the brain does with the natural eye movement process that occurs in the REM ,(Rapid Eye Movement) sleep, where events and emotions during normal daily life are processed naturally.

When people are traumatised, they may experience such strong emotions the brain is overwhelmed. As a result, the brain is unable to cope with or process information as it does ordinarily. Distressing experiences become 'frozen in time'. They are stored in the brain in the original 'raw' form and can recur as 'action replays' or intrusive memories. The person repeatedly relives the original unpleasant event (s). Remembering a trauma may feel as bad as experiencing it the first time because the images, sounds, smells, and feelings haven't changed. Such memories have a lasting negative effect on the way people see themselves, the world and other people. It can affect parts or all of their lives, including their ability to work or study.

 EMDR seems to directly influence the way that the brain functions. It helps to restore normal ways of dealing with problems and information processing). Following successful EMDR treatment, memories of the event are no longer painful when brought to mind. What happened can still be recalled, but it is less upsetting. EMDR can be thought of as an inherently natural therapy which assists the brain in working through distressing material.

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