EMDR

Do the traumas you have experienced in the past sometimes stalk you in your daily life? Although you travel very often, does every flight fells like a horror movie for you? Is it that you cannot use means that'll make your life easier, such as the elevator or metro, and do all kinds of indoor areas create danger for you? 

Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing Therapy, known as EMDR, is used to treat many problems, ranging from trauma to anxiety disorders, vaginismus to stuttering. The EMDR method, which is based on reconciliation with one's bad moment, provides successful results in just a few sessions.

What is EMDR?

EMDR, the abbreviation for Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing Therapy, is a powerful psychotherapy approach. To date, approximately 2 million people of all ages have been successfully treated by this method for different types of psychological disorders.
 

How does EMDR work?

About 20 thousand memories are recorded per day. Some of these memories are positive, some are negative, many of them are insignificant and neutral. Positive and neutral memories pass through the information processing process in a normal way and stored in the memory. Negative and traumatic memories, like a virus entering the computer, disrupt this process. These memories interfere with the normal functioning of the interpretation process. A negative memory not only lives in the past but continues to have an alive effect as if it has taken place 'today'.
EMDR is a physiologically based therapy that provides a healthy processing of such memories. During the therapy, the right and left hemispheres of the brain are stimulated, ensuring the procedure that could not be performed on time to be performed. Establishing a relationship between the locked-out memory and other memory networks is possible by adaptive storage of information by providing learning. The person will not be disturbed anymore and will see the memory from a new and healthy point of view.
 

Does EMDR help one forget a negative thing?

EMDR does not help patients to forget an annoying, painful memory. However, it desensitizes the patient against all negative feelings s/he has had due to this pain, such as anger, fear, sadness, anxiety, disappointment. 
 

How does the therapy progress?

In EMDR therapy, an 8-phase, three-pronged (past, now, future) protocol is applied. The goal is to induce desensitization by reprocessing the memories of the past, treat the symptoms of today, enable the person to show the behaviors directed by the new perspective developed by the positive beliefs and emotions gained by the person, when faced with similar problems in the future.
 

How long does it take for EMDR to show effect?

Sometimes it is observed that the problem is solved in a single session, and sometimes it may require longer work.
 

Which problems are treated with EMDR?

The fact that most of the psychological and/or psychosomatic disorders are due to unprocessed memories has widened the clinical application area and provided efficient and rapid treatment of many problems. Examples of these areas include personality disorders, panic disorder, anxiety disorders, depression, bereavement, disturbing memories, phobias, pain disorders, eating disorders, performance anxiety, stress control, addictions, sexual and/or physical harassment, body dysmorphic disorders, sexual dysfunctions, behavioral disorders and self-confidence problems.
 

Your Daily Life Will Be Easier!

• Although you've worked hard and achieved the success you want, if you observe that you cannot do anything because of high anxiety as the actual exam approaches
• If you have jilted by your lover and you cannot stop yourself from living that moment all the time
• If you have been subjected to violence and these images have ruined your whole life
• If your mother's years-long critical attitude and words resonate in your ears in any new environment you enter into and if you become unable to move
• You've recovered from Vertigo disorder but if you've imprisoned yourself in your house in fear of 'what if it happens again'
• You are divorced and if the insults you've heard in the last period of your marriage still haunt you.
• If you have trouble saying no and this attitude of yours gives you great trouble every time
• If although you travel very often, every flight feels like a horror movie for you?
• If you cannot use means that'll make your life easier, such as the elevator or metro, and if all kinds of indoor areas mean danger for you
• If you constantly compare your own success with the success of your colleagues and this is of great concern to you
• If after every negative event you experience, you say 'it's my fault'
• You've had an accident, after some time everything has been resolved and you healed but if your biggest nightmare has become getting in your car again
• If you have difficulty in explaining what you know best in social situations and if you prefer to keep silent and sit down
• If you need approval of others in everything you do and if your own ideas are worthless to you
• If you say I always find the wrong people in bilateral relations and cannot maintain my relationships and all my relationships end in a way I don't want them to, you can reach resolution with EMDR.