EMDR: Psychological therapy to improve yourself

EMDR therapy in Toronto, Canada is undoubtedly a highly recommended psychological therapy that you can perform. Here we have given all the details related to EMDR. 

What is the meaning of EMDR?

EMDR stands for "Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing" As the name implies, it is a therapeutic method to treat different disorders through bilateral stimulation. It serves to treat physical symptoms, negative emotions and limiting beliefs associated with those symptoms.

What pathologies is EMDR therapy for?

Although EMDR was born to treat post-traumatic stress, due to its mechanisms of action it has been extended to other pathologies with great success, even to non-clinical situations. 

Its effectiveness is such that it is used routinely in major humanitarian disasters throughout the world.

Today it is applied successfully especially for:

- Psychological post-traumatic stress syndrome syndrome

- Different types of stress

- Anxiety

- Depression

- Phobias

- Bullying

- Emotional dependencies

- Panic attacks

- Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD), psychosomatic, behavioral or eating

- Sexual dysfunctions

- Chronic Fatigue Syndrome

- Migraines

- Chronic pain

- Self-esteem problems

- Abuse of substances such as tobacco

- Nightmares

- Physical health blockages

- Improvement of professional, artistic or sports performance

 What is EMDR therapy based on?

Overcoming trauma EMDRE is based on the correct processing of past experiences of our life through bilateral stimulation. It belongs to the group of therapeutic models called adaptive information processing. 

Each pathology has a physiological component. And we can change that brain physiology. Some negative experiences that we live remain anchored in our neural networks causing serious problems and not allowing us to move forward. 

They are traumas, fears or very unpleasant emotions that our mind has not been able to process correctly and they have remained anchored. It is information that is stored in the brain in the wrong way and that harms us. Sometimes, our brain is overwhelmed and unable to process everything that comes to it.

The possibilities are endless: irrational fears, traumatic events, lack of love, etc. They are stored from a traumatic experience and cause us unpleasant symptoms. 

In addition to that, when faced with situations in similar environments, the symptoms soar as the information was stored in the systems based on trauma or bad experience. 

This leads to physical and psychological blockages and symptoms. This causes us a lot of misunderstanding towards our body and our mind since we do not understand from the rational point of view those triggers so counterproductive for us.

Who can use EMDR therapy?

It can be used by both adults and children and can be supplemented with other types of therapies.

For children, sessions are done by EMDR Therapists in Toronto, Canada usually begins with an exercise to boost their self-confidence and well-being. This assures them that they will be well throughout the process. It can also be done with adults.