EMDR Therapy in Edmonton, AB
EMDR stands for Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing. EMDR is a comprehensive psychotherapy approach that integrates emotions, thoughts, and body sensations. EMDR has been extensively researched and shown effective for the treatment of trauma and various other mental health problems.
How Does EMDR Work?
The goal of EMDR therapy is to “process” the experiences that are causing your current problems or symptoms and to introduce new experiences that help achieve a sense of health and well-being.
“Processing” does not necessarily involve discussing it.
“Processing” refers to setting up a specific brain state that will enable experiences that produce issues to be “digested” and saved fittingly in your brain. This means that the useful information from these experiences will be kept and kept with proper emotions in your brain, guiding you in positive ways in the future. The inappropriate or unhelpful emotions, beliefs/thoughts, and body sensations will be “digested” or discarded.
Healing with EMDR
Negative emotions, negative thoughts, unpleasant body sensations and unhelpful behaviors are generally triggered by unsolved past experiences that are giving you bad information and thus pushing you in unhealthy directions.
The goal of EMDR therapy is to discard those negative unhelpful emotions, thoughts, and body sensations and leave you with helpful emotions, thoughts, and perspectives that will guide you towards healthy behaviors and well-being.
- Trauma and post-traumatic stress
- Complicated grief
- Panic attacks
- Disturbing memories
- Dissociative disorders
- Phobias
- Performance anxiety
- Pain disorders
- Addictions
- Stress reduction
- Sexual and/or Physical abuse
- Body dysmorphic disorders
- Eating disorders
- Personality Disorders
- Depression
- Anger issues
Learn More About EMDR
Check out these videos to understand more about how EMDR works to process unhelpful emotions, thoughts, and body sensations.
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