5 Reasons you Should Add EMDR to your Psychotherapy Toolbox

At Envision we know you’re continually refining your skills and searching for tools to improve your practice and the lives of your clients. As a therapist, you likely have a fulsome arsenal of tried and true therapeutic techniques and interventions that you apply on a case-by-case basis to help your clients get the most out of their sessions. A technique that you may have heard about, but not yet had the opportunity to study up on is EMDR – or Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing. Envision has launched the Envision Academy which offers a unique, one-of-a-kind basic EMDR training program. We have launched this training because we very much believe in the benefits of EMDR within your practice and that’s precisely what we would like to discuss today – the top 5 reasons to add EMDR to your psychotherapy toolbox.

What is EMDR?

EMDR is essentially a tool designed to help decrease the autonomic symptoms heavily associated with traumatic experiences, giving the client reprieve from the trauma (1). The therapist asks the client to relive a distressing or traumatic experience, while the therapist directs eye movement or another type of bilateral stimulation. EMDR is a highly effective and powerful treatment that can reduce or completely relieve traumatic symptoms. In fact, studies on EMDR show that 84-100% of single-trauma sufferers and 77% of multiple-trauma sufferers were no longer suffering with PTSD to the same extent after a handful of treatments (2)<