Unique Types Of Therapy You May Not Know About
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Julia Austin
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EMDR
EMDR stands for Eye Moment Desensitization and Reprocessing. The simplest way to explain it is that a therapist will move her fingers back and forth in front of your face, asking you to follow the movements with your eyes, as you talk about a painful memory – going into detail about the emotional and physical sensations. Then the therapist will gently guide you into having more pleasant thoughts. It may sound like hypnosis, but the patient does not go into a trance-like state during EMDR.
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