EMDR Therapy
It is a relatively new psychotherapy technique designed by psychologists to reduce trauma, anxiety, and depressive symptoms or to improve overall mental health functioning. EMDR has been shown to be extremely effective in treating numerous psychological and emotional problems, especially those related to traumatic events. Promotes activation of brain healing mechanisms through bilateral sensory stimulation (ocular, auditory and/or tactile). This treatment can only be applied by an EMDR certified psychotherapist. We are the best private clinic providing affordable emdr therapy in London.
HOW DOES EMDR WORK?
EMDR is complex work that requires knowing the patient’s medical history, developing an empathetic therapist/client relationship, and preparing the patient for the EMDR itself. Movements are performed in conjunction with psychotherapy to help the client integrate processed traumas. The accelerated processing of information provided by EMDR is done in a particular way, that is, each person will process their associations, based on their personal experience and values. Bilateral stimuli are repeated until the memory is no longer disturbing and can be associated with more positive personal thoughts and beliefs.
STEPS OF EMDR THERAPY
First the psychologist reviews the client’s history and assesses the client’s readiness for EMDR. During the preparation phase, the psychologist works with the client to identify a positive memory associated with feelings of security or calm that can be used in case of psychological distress associated with the traumatic memory. By paying attention to the picture, limiting belief, and physical feelings, the traumatic target memory for the therapy session can be accessible.
Exercises are performed where the patient attends to a motor task while focusing on the target traumatic memory first and then on all related negative thoughts, associations and body sensations. Eye movements that follow the therapist’s finger are the most frequent motor activity employed in EMDR, however hand taps or auditory tones delivered through headphones can also be utilised in place of eye movements.
The exercises are repeated until the client no longer reports any emotional distress. The client is then instructed to conceive of a positive thought regarding the occurrence and to concentrate on that good belief while performing the remaining exercises, according to the EMDR therapist.
The exercises end when the patient’s reports of past and traumatic events are reliable, comfortable, and demonstrate a positive feeling.
The therapist and patient analyze the progress, discuss scenarios or contexts where psychological distress could still be triggered, and work on preventing new negative episodes. Also targeted and processed are these stimuli and encouraging pictures for suitable behaviour in the future. Furthermore, the psychologist asks the patient to keep a diary, writing down any material related to the traumatic memory, and to focus on the previously identified positive safety or calm memory whenever the psychological distress associated with the traumatic memory is triggered.
There is an underlying mechanism that makes this process work to reduce trauma related stress, anxiety and depression. Researchers theorized that the positive effect is due to adaptive information processing.
EMDR THEORETICAL MODEL
Through adaptive information processing, the dual-attention exercises will work the patient’s stored traumatic memory and will allow the elimination of negative beliefs, emotions and somatic symptoms associated with the memory, facilitating the connection with new, more adaptive information stored in the memory networks. .Once you remember the trauma it will not trigger negative beliefs, emotions or somatic symptoms and, simultaneously, the memory shifts to a more adaptive set of beliefs, emotions and somatic responses, again storing but now replacing the original memory of the trauma.
NUMBER OF EMDR SESSIONS
EMDR is normally done in 90-minute sessions, although shorter sessions have been used with success. The number of sessions varies according to the complexity of the trauma to be treated. For an isolated traumatic event, a single 1-3 sessions may be sufficient for treatment. However, when the trauma involves repeated traumatic events, such as combat trauma and physical, sexual, or emotional abuse, more sessions may be needed for comprehensive treatment.
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