What You Should Know About EMDR Therapy?
Depression has become part of life due to hectic lifestyles. Now due to awareness about mental health, various treatments are available. There is EMDR treatment available for people suffering from depression due to traumatic events.
What is EMDR treatment?
EMDR stands for Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing. EMDR therapy is the treatment that is getting popular to treat Post Traumatic Stress Distress. In this treatment, negative thoughts are processed and the therapist helps the client to transition to more positive thoughts while remembering that traumatic event.
EMDR is helpful in treating Post Traumatic Stress Disorder. Along with this, there are various other mental health illnesses that can be treated with EMDR:
Eating Disorders
Anxiety Disorders
Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder
Depression
There is a total of eight phases of the EMDR treatment. Let's have a look at them:
In the initial session, the therapist collects information about the history. He collects information about your past traumatic experiences and also about your current condition of stress and anxiety. According to this information, the therapist makes the treatment plan.
In the second stage, the therapist shares the information regarding the treatment with the patient and tries to build a trust relationship.
In the third stage, the therapist identifies the negative thoughts related to the traumatic event in your mind and tries to replace them with positive thoughts.
In the fourth stage, your therapist will lead the patient to the stimulation sets while the patient is focusing on his traumatic event memories. These stimulation sets include eye movements or auditory stimulation.
In this stage, the therapist will ask the patient to focus on the positive thought while memorizing that traumatic event.
In this stage, the body is tested through the body scan to know whether the patient body responds to the traumatic events. If it responds then the therapist tries another stimulation set.
This is the closure stage. In this stage, the therapist discusses the positive thoughts that the patient needs to keep in mind in daily life also while remembering that event.
The last step is reevaluation. The therapist discusses the current psychological state and tries to understand whether the treatment is working or not.
It is the best thing to choose an experienced psychologist in Sydney to undergo the treatment using EMDR.
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