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What is EMDR Therapy?
EMDR therapy makes use of a physical process of Left-Right stimulation to launch the same kind of mental and emotional processing as occurs in dream sleep and is essential for sanity and high quality learning and peak productivity.
Self-help EMDR
Can you use EMDR yourself? Yes you can and it should be safe and helpful. look for EMDR DIY, or Bilateral Music videos. Spend time 30 -60 minutes per day with this input even while you are falling asleep or working on your computer. It will add essential processing power to your life.
Is self-help EMDR the same as professional EMDR therapy?
No! With self-help use of bilateral stimulation you are increasing mental and emotional processing time in your day. That has great benefits. However you are not doing EMDR therapy for which you want a trained professional.
Review Virtual EMDR
Is virtual EMDR an evidenced-based form of EMDR therapy? No! The Virtual EMDR web-site has developed a set of instructions that is unique in itself and does not align in practice or principle with evidence-based EMDR. I do not think 'Virtual EMDR' is delivering real EMDR.
What is EMDR Therapy Like?
Evidence for Results from EMDR
Eye-Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) is one of the most researched and highly recommended treatments for trauma and PTSD (Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder). The EMDR process reduces anxiety and changes our relationship to the traumatic memory by accessing the brain’s innate capacity to reprocess memory. EMDR works by promoting integration and processing on multiple levels - including the right/left hemispheres of the brain, and an integration of adaptive information from throughout the Emotional Brain. Most clients experience significant changes after just a few EMDR processing sessions for recent traumatic events.
In summary, there is less time seeking insight and in dialogue and more time in nonverbal processing using eye movement or Left/Right audio input on earphones. This means effective therapy is available for those who cannot talk at length about their emotional issues. Young people even very young children have benefitted.
To book a session with George phone or text (416) 939-0544. Email: ghartwell at rogers dot com.
Surprising results
Traditional talk therapists were surprised that such a nonverbal method could be so effective. Is cognitive processing not essential to change emotionally learned programs? No it is not because emotional trauma and emotional learning is in deep storage in the Emotional Brain. Emotional experiences are mostly not stored in words but in scenes and stories.
People were scratching their heads to explain how bilateral input worked as an effective therapy within a carefully guided protocol. What is the explanation?
I have the advantage of following closely the maturing of the Christian inner healing prayer movement from confessing sin at the root to identifying the core belief and using listening prayer meditations to dissolve those beliefs. I had more than 10 years of hands on experience with this before learning EMDR. Then I found that EMDR can enhance listening prayer so they could be used in conjunction with one another.
I also have the advantage of following Bruce Ecker in his first-hand research of psychotherapy session to isolate the client experiences in psychotherapy that make for emotional breakthroughs. He wrote about his research and then aligned psychotherapy with psychological research on emotional learning in Unlocking the Emotional Brain (2012). This allows me to understand why EMDR works and to concentrate on the most essential elements of the EMDR protocol. In this way I can incorporate winning methods in my own Listening Prayer Therapy model which allows the Holy Spirit to guide the process.
I am an EMDR-trained therapist who uses EMDR to increase your capacity to process new information and old beliefs and emotions. This accelerates the achievement of your goals in psychotherapy.
To book a session with George phone or text (416) 939-0544.
Professional fee per hour session is $160.00 (2022 - subject to change). There is a fee for late cancelled appointments. Payment is due at the end of your appointment. Payment by e-transfers or PayPal. A receipt is issued.
EMDR therapy makes use of a physical process of Left-Right stimulation to launch the same kind of mental and emotional processing as occurs in dream sleep and is essential for sanity and high quality learning and peak productivity.
Self-help EMDR
Can you use EMDR yourself? Yes you can and it should be safe and helpful. look for EMDR DIY, or Bilateral Music videos. Spend time 30 -60 minutes per day with this input even while you are falling asleep or working on your computer. It will add essential processing power to your life.
Is self-help EMDR the same as professional EMDR therapy?
No! With self-help use of bilateral stimulation you are increasing mental and emotional processing time in your day. That has great benefits. However you are not doing EMDR therapy for which you want a trained professional.
Review Virtual EMDR
Is virtual EMDR an evidenced-based form of EMDR therapy? No! The Virtual EMDR web-site has developed a set of instructions that is unique in itself and does not align in practice or principle with evidence-based EMDR. I do not think 'Virtual EMDR' is delivering real EMDR.
What is EMDR Therapy Like?
- In EMDR therapy it takes a skilled therapist to find the target for the processing. the therapist helps to find the right memory.
- The therapist and client need to discover the emotions locked in the memory and try to rate how much distress is caused by its recall.
- Then the professional guide must lead the client in identifying the beliefs, perspectives and expectations that are rooted in this memory. These core beliefs are crucial to real change through EMDR therapy.
- Only when all this is in place does the trained EMDR therapist start the use of bilateral stimulation to process the memory. This process continues until therapist and client are satisfied that the memory does not trigger the same feelings or support the same beliefs. That is the point at which emotional healing has occurred.
- The EMDR therapist may also dedicate time to consolidating the new perspective and new belief into the client's emotional belief system.
Evidence for Results from EMDR
Eye-Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) is one of the most researched and highly recommended treatments for trauma and PTSD (Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder). The EMDR process reduces anxiety and changes our relationship to the traumatic memory by accessing the brain’s innate capacity to reprocess memory. EMDR works by promoting integration and processing on multiple levels - including the right/left hemispheres of the brain, and an integration of adaptive information from throughout the Emotional Brain. Most clients experience significant changes after just a few EMDR processing sessions for recent traumatic events.
In summary, there is less time seeking insight and in dialogue and more time in nonverbal processing using eye movement or Left/Right audio input on earphones. This means effective therapy is available for those who cannot talk at length about their emotional issues. Young people even very young children have benefitted.
To book a session with George phone or text (416) 939-0544. Email: ghartwell at rogers dot com.
Surprising results
Traditional talk therapists were surprised that such a nonverbal method could be so effective. Is cognitive processing not essential to change emotionally learned programs? No it is not because emotional trauma and emotional learning is in deep storage in the Emotional Brain. Emotional experiences are mostly not stored in words but in scenes and stories.
People were scratching their heads to explain how bilateral input worked as an effective therapy within a carefully guided protocol. What is the explanation?
I have the advantage of following closely the maturing of the Christian inner healing prayer movement from confessing sin at the root to identifying the core belief and using listening prayer meditations to dissolve those beliefs. I had more than 10 years of hands on experience with this before learning EMDR. Then I found that EMDR can enhance listening prayer so they could be used in conjunction with one another.
I also have the advantage of following Bruce Ecker in his first-hand research of psychotherapy session to isolate the client experiences in psychotherapy that make for emotional breakthroughs. He wrote about his research and then aligned psychotherapy with psychological research on emotional learning in Unlocking the Emotional Brain (2012). This allows me to understand why EMDR works and to concentrate on the most essential elements of the EMDR protocol. In this way I can incorporate winning methods in my own Listening Prayer Therapy model which allows the Holy Spirit to guide the process.
I am an EMDR-trained therapist who uses EMDR to increase your capacity to process new information and old beliefs and emotions. This accelerates the achievement of your goals in psychotherapy.
To book a session with George phone or text (416) 939-0544.
Professional fee per hour session is $160.00 (2022 - subject to change). There is a fee for late cancelled appointments. Payment is due at the end of your appointment. Payment by e-transfers or PayPal. A receipt is issued.