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The process of healing from childhood trauma starts with understanding it. People who suffer from such abuse or neglect in their childhood often suffer from dangerous emotional and psychological disorders, even in their adulthood.
Don’t worry! Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) is a powerful therapy that can help you get rid of your wounds. Healing childhood trauma with EMDR helps you meet your inner child and live healthier and happier. It’s a great way to heal and bring out positive changes in your life.
What is EMDR Therapy?
EMDR therapy, also known as Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing is a psychotherapy technique. It helps you bury your pain that continues to hurt or lead your decision making.
Phases of EMDR Therapy
EMDR therapy session contains an eight-phase treatment procedure, which includes:
History and treatment planning
The therapist accesses the client's full history and prepares a treatment plan. Don’t worry! Therapists won’t force you to share all your disturbing memories in detail.
Preparation
The therapist will teach you incredible techniques to deal with all your emotional disturbances. The foremost aim of this session is to build trust between the client and the therapist.
Assessment
This phase is also known as the target event. The therapist will identify the aspects of the target by giving a specific picture or scene from the target event.
Reprocessing
A single reprocessing session completes within 3 sessions. It helps you and the therapist to analyze the progress during each therapy session.
Desensitization
In this phase, the therapist continues to lead you in sets of eye movements with changes of focus till your SUD-scale levels are reduced to 0, 1, or 2.
Installation
The objective of this phase is to boost your strength and inner belief. You have to accept the full truth of your positive self-statement.
Body scan
You will think about the target event and your positive belief while scanning the body. Your EMDR session won’t be completed until you can bring up the original target without feeling pressure.
Closure
It ensures that you feel better than at the beginning of your sessions. However, if you are still feeling the same, the therapist will access you by using a wide range of self-calming techniques.
Re-evaluation
Your therapist will check and makes sure that your positive results are maintained perfectly. Although you will start feeling better instantly with EMDR, it is vital to complete the last phase of treatment.
Benefits of EMDR Therapy
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Let’s explore the amazing benefits of EMDR therapy:
Ideal for trauma recovery
Although it’s quite hard to move on after childhood trauma, EMDR for childhood trauma works effectively to remove it. It helps you get rid of the triggers that make you feel you are facing the incident again. This therapy enables your brain to reform the emotions, ideas, and memories linked with your trauma in a positive manner.
Reduces stress and anxiety
Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing therapy are highly effective to reduce stress and anxiety linked associated with childhood trauma. Wondering how can EMDR help? Well. It does by reprocessing traumatic memories, resolving negative thoughts, enhancing emotional regulations, and releasing stored tension.
Provides fast results
One of the best things about this short-term treatment is that it provides permanent results. All you have to do is attend eight-to-twelve-week sessions. It is very effective if you have limited time and want to get instant results.
Safe and supportive environment
There is no doubt in saying that childhood trauma makes it hard to trust the world. But, EMDR sessions offer a safe and supportive therapeutic environment. By working with a skilled and experienced therapist, you can rebuild your sense of safety and trust.