Month: January 2023

EMDR Looks Different – What Reprocessing the Past Looks Like

In the last blog post, we looked at why EMDR works. Now, we can look at what the EMDR process looks like. Before we get into any actual reprocessing, we need to decide what we want to look different, a step in the EMDR process that looks like a talk therapy session. This might sound… Read more »

EMDR: What it is and why it works

Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) therapy was first developed accidentally by Dr. Francine Shapiro in the late 1980s, when she was walking in a park, thinking about something distressing, and moving her eyes back and forth viewing the landscape in front of her. When she realized that her distress was decreasing the longer she… Read more »