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EMDR Explained

EMDR is an acronym for .  Therapists and doctors have been using EMDR for over seventeen years. It has been designated as one of the most effective approaches in helping people address post traumatic stress disorder, trauma, loss, grief, depression, anxiety, phobias and performance enhancement. EMDR effectively and efficiently targets issues experienced by people as general "blocks" and challenges.

How does EMDR work?

When we experience trauma, fear or oppression, the brain tends to store information under a state of duress.  During the occurance of the negative event, there may not be time to make sense of an experience in a helpful amnner or to process it fully. Research has documented that reviewing a traumatic or stressful event while in a relaxed state facilitated by eye movements and other bi-lateral stimulation such as sound helps the information processing part of the brain to metabolize the experience in a healthy manner.  The process of EMDR helps people to incorporate insights and feelings that are  life enhacing as opposed to those that are self defeating.

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