What is Attachment-Focused EMDR?

EMDR is a comprehensive approach to therapy that integrates elements of psychodynamic, cognitive behavioral, transpersonal, experiential, and body-centered therapies. The World Health Organization and American Psychological Association have recommended it for people with PTSD. Attachment-Informed EMDR has proved very effective for helping clients make meaningful interpersonal changes while assigning meaning to present behaviors, relationship difficulties, restrictive beliefs, and maladaptive patterns rooted in early childhood experiences. It provides a reparative therapeutic relationship that strengthens a clients' self-knowledge and repairs developmental deficits.

EMDR therapy is delivered through Bilateral Stimulation; the use of alternating right, left stimulation such as tapping or sounds. Bilateral stimulation is used to activate and integrate information from the brain’s two hemispheres, the same left-right brain processing that occurs during REM states of dreaming. In a sense it has the power to rewire the past.