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EMDR

Sam
5 months ago

Hi

Does anyone have any experience of EMDR?

I have concerns about eye contact with the therapist, anxiety etc

Cheeers x

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  • 5 months ago

    I did it with a therapist at one point. I'm not really sure if it actually helped make the traumatic memories easier, but maybe. 

    You're not actually going to be looking into their eyes for it, so eye contact shouldn't be more of an issue than a regular therapy session. For mine it was following their finger back and forth so I was looking in their direction but only focused on the hand, but there are options if that's still too much like it can be done with screens also. 

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  • 5 months ago

    I did it with a therapist at one point. I'm not really sure if it actually helped make the traumatic memories easier, but maybe. 

    You're not actually going to be looking into their eyes for it, so eye contact shouldn't be more of an issue than a regular therapy session. For mine it was following their finger back and forth so I was looking in their direction but only focused on the hand, but there are options if that's still too much like it can be done with screens also. 

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