Eye Movement Desensitization Reprocessing (EMDR) is an evidence-based psychotherapy that is used in treating clients with PTSD, as well as other psychiatric disorders, somatic symptoms, and mental illness.

EMDR allows the healthy information within the Adaptive Information Processing System to connect with disturbing memories, sensations, or thoughts and desensitizes the disturbance so it is no longer distressing to the individual through an 8 phase, 3-pronged process.

In EMDR, the client focuses dual attention to a specific target by utilizing bilateral stimulation. The bilateral stimulation allows the brain to bring resolution to the traumatic experience.

Eye movements known as Bilateral Stimulation is related to the similar process of REM sleep which allows information from the day to be eliminated, consolidated or processed.

The reprocessing of the target can bring healing and healthy information to the experience and release the emotional charge that is held to the memory.

EMDR is beneficial in addressing adverse life experiences, specifically rooted in childhood, and the psychological and physiological symptoms that have been imbedded in on how one perceives themselves and the world around them.