Trauma and EMDR Therapy

EMDR for Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PSTD)

In life, awful and upsetting things happen to people, and afterward some of them have flashbacks, nightmares, and intrusive negative thoughts that take them back to that awful and upsetting day! Maybe this kind of thing is happening to you or someone you know…

  • Have you been in an auto accident or fire?
  • Has a friend of yours died?

If You've Been Traumatized, I Can Help

All of these kinds of situations can cause a person to become traumatized and can drastically affect them for many years AFTER the incident. When a trauma occurs, all the sights, sounds, thoughts, and feelings of that moment get “locked” into the person’s mind and nervous system. This is called post-traumatic stress disorder.

For example, imagine that a young woman is driving home from work, she stops at a stop sign, and her car is hit from behind. At the moment of the accident, a certain song is playing on the radio. That song gets “locked” into her mind and nervous system, along with all the upsetting feelings with which it is associated. If she hears that song one year later, the whole experience of the auto accident may suddenly come back, and she becomes distressed and overwhelmed. If you knew this woman, would you tell her about a method of treatment that could help her greatly? You probably would.

The method of treatment is called EMDR—Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing.

Find out more at http://www.emdria.org