Trauma is defined as an event or a series of events that threatens physical injury or death and causes feelings of extreme terror and helplessness. About 20% of ...

If you have experienced trauma and aren't achieving the desired outcomes with your current treatment, you might consider exploring Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing therapy, known as EMDR.

Childhood traumatic experiences are common. Almost one in three (32%) Australians reported being physically abused as a child, 31% experienced emotional abuse, 28.5% were victims of sexual abuse and 9 ...

Eye Movement Desensitisation and Reprocessing (EMDR) is an established, evidence‐based psychotherapeutic approach for addressing the debilitating symptoms of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). Its ...

This article was originally featured on The Conversation. If you’ve been to a therapist’s office in the past few years, there’s a good chance you’ve heard of eye movement desensitization and ...

As the saying goes, eyes are the window to the soul. Those same eyes are also the focus of a new study to help heal combat veterans of their post-traumatic stress tied to their service. “It’s gonna ...

EMDR therapy is not new, but every few years it resurfaces as a way to process trauma. For example, in Prince Harry’s docuseries with Oprah Winfrey, The Me You Can't See (which came out in 2021), ...

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EMDR was originally developed to treat post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and like many scientific discoveries, it came about almost by accident: “Dr. Francine Shapiro, the psychologist who ...

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