The Basic Approaches To A Simple EMDR Treatment

By Krystal Branch


Treating post traumatic stress disorder can be done with EMDR Denver. The person suffering from this disorder should call up for the assistance of a professional. The professional is the one who will administer this treatment. The said treatment is composed of eight phases, each with precise intentions of their own.

The first phase has a lot to do with history and treatment planning. At this point, the professional will conduct an initial evaluation with regards to the history of the client. Depending on the results of the evaluation, the professional will then develop a general treatment plan that will be used for treating the person suffering from the said disorder.

There is the processing too. This is the point in the treatment where the patient will have to focus on the traumatic memory. The clinician will then initiate lateral eye movements. With this phase, it is possible for the clinician to get associative information out of the patient suffering from the post traumatic stress disorder.

The clinician should then focus on the assessment of the patient as well as the treatment. At this phase, one will still have to visualize the traumatic memory and visualize an image to represent it. One should then recognize it through negative cognition. Once completed, the next thing to do is to visualize another image, this time for a positive cognition, that one may associate with the memory.

The next part is the desensitization. When the person is asked to focus on the disturbing memory and is in the process of focusing on the negative cognition, the professional will have to begin making bilateral gestures and requests that the person has to follow. They have to do this until they reach the point that they no longer feel as strongly negative about the image as they were in the past.

Installation. The next phase that the client has to go through is the installation of the positive cognition into one's mind to overcome those negative cognition embedded inside. This is the phase where the therapist will help the client replace all of those negative cognition with those positive cognition developed during the assessment phase.

The body scan is the next step to this. This is the part where one has to identify uncomfortable sensations that might still be lingering in one's body. While one is thinking about the disturbing memory, check the body for any tension or physical discomfort. Target them so that they can be eliminated.

Find closure with it. There are events that cannot be resolved completely within the time limit of the treatment. In this case, one might want to make use of relaxation techniques to help with acquiring emotional stability and tranquility. These techniques will surely be of great help to the person suffering from the traumatic event.

Reevaluation should be done as the last phase for this treatment. The treatment is not done with the initial evaluation. Make sure to go through proper reevaluation for the event so that the clinician can be assured that everything is well. The assessment is useful when the phases are followed properly.




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