EMDR Trauma Therapy
What is Trauma? And how can EMDR trauma therapy help?
Trauma is not just an emotional response to a terrible event like a natural disaster, accident or assault. Trauma can leave its mark even concerning far less extreme events, depending on when and who it happens to. Longer-term symptoms of trauma include flashbacks, strained relationships, unstable emotions, and even physical complaints like headaches or nausea. There are three types of trauma;
- Acute trauma results from a single incident.
- Chronic trauma is repeated and prolonged, such as domestic violence or abuse.
- Complex trauma is exposure to varied and multiple traumatic events, often of an invasive, interpersonal nature.
Staggeringly, it’s estimated that 70% of the world’s population have been exposed to a traumatic life event. This number will have only increased with the level of life-impacting events that we now have to deal with as a global population.
Numerous trauma therapies exist; Psychotherapy, Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT), Brainwave Entrainment and EMDR, to name a few. But here, we will take a closer look at EMDR as a trauma therapy.
EMDR Therapy – How Does It Help?
Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) therapy is an effective psychotherapy method proven to help people recover from trauma or other distressing life experiences. EMDR approaches psychological issues not via ‘talk therapy’ or medications. Instead, EMDR uses a patient’s own rapid, rhythmic eye movements to lessen the power of emotional memories from past traumatic events.
EMDR uses an eight-phase treatment approach, where therapy involves attention to three time periods: the past, present, and future. Focus is given to past disturbing memories, related events, and current situations that cause distress.
- Phase 1: History-taking
- Phase 2: Preparing the client
- Phase 3: Assessing the target memory
- Phases 4-7: Processing the memory to adaptive resolution
- Phase 8: Evaluating treatment results
EMDR tackles the root of your most stressful and traumatic situation, helping you process through the intensity of your emotions. This process enables you to shift your attention to more positive, adaptive beliefs, which will naturally reduce your stress levels related to that specific traumatic event.
EMDR Trauma Therapy has a proven track record for supporting the reduction of emotions caused by traumatic events, with studies completed on understanding the benefits compared to other therapies.
EMDR Therapy – How Does It Help?
Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) therapy is an effective psychotherapy method proven to help people recover from trauma or other distressing life experiences. EMDR approaches psychological issues not via ‘talk therapy’ or medications. Instead, EMDR uses a patient’s own rapid, rhythmic eye movements to lessen the power of emotional memories from past traumatic events.
EMDR uses an eight-phase treatment approach, where therapy involves attention to three time periods: the past, present, and future. Focus is given to past disturbing memories, related events, and current situations that cause distress.
- Phase 1: History-taking
- Phase 2: Preparing the client
- Phase 3: Assessing the target memory
- Phases 4-7: Processing the memory to adaptive resolution
- Phase 8: Evaluating treatment results
EMDR tackles the root of your most stressful situations or negative beliefs, helping you process through the intensity of your emotions. This process enables you to shift your attention to more positive, adaptive beliefs, which will naturally reduce your anxiety levels.
EMDR Therapy for Anxiety has a proven track record for supporting anxiety reduction, with numerous high quality studies completed on understanding the benefits compared to other therapies.
Alternative Therapy Options – Brainwave Entrainment?
Certain types of stimulation impact our brain function more than others—those more traumatic experiences ‘buildup’, causing our brain function to change over time. Brain scans of Buddhist monks in meditation consistently show different brainwaves to the scans of people who have lived through a traumatic experience.
Is it possible to improve our mental state to allow us to react, process and feel differently? Can we change how our brain functions? After all, we can’t all live like Buddhist monks; our lives carry on, with us often having to live close to those traumatic experiences.
The short answer is yes; there are things you can do that can support changing how your brain functions and reacts. DeepWave Brainwave Entrainment adjusts brain activity using high frequency LED light. The light pulses at the same frequency as desirable brain states, like happy, relaxed, peaceful, optimistic, focused, creative, meditative, compassionate, confident, flow and even sleepy states. Repeat sessions work like gym sessions for your brain and affect positive change over time. Sometimes gradually, sometimes very quickly.
Brainwave Entrainment stimulates the brain into entering a specific state by using high-frequency light. This light recalibrates stress brain activity, evoking the brain’s ‘frequency following response. An induced brainwave state can include enhanced focus, relaxation, meditation, or sleep induction. Simply put, brainwave entrainment pushes the entire brain into a particular state, adjusting or interrupting the brain’s response to certain situations. Essentially reprogramming how your brain processes and responds.
Brainwave Entrainment can help with trauma, emotional healing, anxiety, depression, sleep disorders, pain relief, and creative expression and performance. It is a simple yet effective way to lead your mind into states you might usually find difficult to reach, allowing you to experience what those states feel like. Brainwave Entrainment works for almost everyone whilst dealing with multiple kinds of struggles. It does not require face to face interaction as seen in all talk therapies, making it feel more accessible and less intrusive as a therapeutic treatment.
Alternative Therapy Options – Brainwave Entrainment?
Certain types of stimulation impact our brain function more than others—those more traumatic experiences ‘buildup’, causing our brain function to change over time. Brain scans of Buddhist monks in meditation consistently show different brainwaves to the scans of people who have lived through a traumatic experience.
Is it possible to improve our mental state to allow us to react, process and feel differently? Can we change how our brain functions? After all, we can’t all live like Buddhist monks; our lives carry on, with us often having to live close to those traumatic experiences.
The short answer is yes; there are things you can do that can support changing how your brain functions and reacts. DeepWave Brainwave Entrainment adjusts brain activity using high frequency LED light. The light pulses at the same frequency as desirable brain states, like happy, relaxed, peaceful, optimistic, focused, creative, meditative, compassionate, confident, flow and even sleepy states. Repeat sessions work like gym sessions for your brain and affect positive change over time. Sometimes gradually, sometimes very quickly.
Brainwave Entrainment stimulates the brain into entering a specific state by using high-frequency light. This light recalibrates stress brain activity, evoking the brain’s ‘frequency following response. An induced brainwave state can include enhanced focus, relaxation, meditation, or sleep induction. Simply put, brainwave entrainment pushes the entire brain into a particular state, adjusting or interrupting the brain’s response to certain situations. Essentially reprogramming how your brain processes and responds.
Brainwave Entrainment can help with trauma, emotional healing, anxiety, depression, sleep disorders, pain relief, and creative expression and performance. It is a simple yet effective way to lead your mind into states you might usually find difficult to reach, allowing you to experience what those states feel like. Brainwave Entrainment works for almost everyone whilst dealing with multiple kinds of struggles. It does not require face to face interaction as seen in all talk therapies, making it feel more accessible and less intrusive as a therapeutic treatment.
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