Everlastin​g V​ictory​ Counseling & Neurotherapy

   When a person is anxious, their brain does not process information in the usual way. If a person has experienced a traumatic situation, their brain cannot "file" the memory properly. As a result of the memory being "filed" improperly, the brain is constantly on alert for that previous danger to occur again, and so it can become triggered easily with any situation with even minor similarities to the traumatic event. So traumatic memories can have a persistent negative effect that interferes with the way a person experiences the world and the way that they interact with other people. 

    EMDR seems to change the way the brain processes the traumatic memory, so that it is processed, or "filed" properly.  So after a successful EMDR session, a person no longer relives the images, sounds, thoughts and feelings when the event is brought up to their mind. They will still remember the situation, but it is less upsetting, often without the emotions. Other types of therapy have similar goals; however, EMDR appears to be similar to what occurs naturally during dreaming or REM (rapid eye movement) sleep. Therefore, EMDR can be thought of as a physiologically based therapy that helps a person see disturbing material in a new and less distressing way. Information taken from emdria.site-ym.com   ; see this link for more information:   https://emdria.site-ym.com/?119