When we pass through an intense experience of pain and suffering without being able to discharge and to self-regulate, we generate trauma. This emotional damage can be conscious or not, but sooner or later it interferes in our lives. It leaves us in state of alert even without eminent danger, generating fears, phobias, anxiety, depression and stress.
EMDR is a new approach of psychotherapy that stimulates bilaterally the brain hemispheres, releasing us from painful emotions.
During the stimulation, that can be visual, hearing or touching, the patient needs to be conscious. The goal is to cause the communication between the rational and the emotional, previously locked by the trauma, to begin to flow, putting the past where it belongs and giving space to a more positive look in face of life.
Developed by Dr. Francine Shapiro in California in the late 1980s, EMDR psychotherapy has been proven effective through more than 200 internationally published scientific research.
It is indicated for the treatment of Post Traumatic Stress Disorders (PTSD), generalized anxiety, phobia, panic syndrome, management of chronic pain, grief, depressions, for the improvement of future performance, among others.
Recognized by the World Health Organization (WHO), the American Psychiatric Association (USA), the Royal College of Psychiatrists (UK), the Veterans Administration (USA), and the International Society for Traumatic Stress Studies, it has benefited thousands of people in several countries.