Attachment-Focused EMDR: Healing Relational Trauma
Book author: Laurel Parnell

EMDR Therapy can also help people who feel distress in their lives to heal and feel more whole after events that have been disturbing such as divorce, life transitions, grief, anxiety, and much more.

When people are experiencing distress in their lives and can’t find a way to fix it on their own they can use EMDR Therapy. Sometimes events happen in a person’s life and they struggle to find a way to integrate that incident. That event can become an unprocessed memory and get stored in the brain creating symptoms that are uncomfortable. Physical sensations, emotions, thoughts, and images associated with the event can get locked into the brain, and without treatment, may lead to distressing symptoms and behaviors.

EMDR Therapy is designed to help you identify and process these stuck pieces so that the symptoms can decrease leaving you more alive and less distressed. EMDR Therapy helps facilitate the activation of the brain’s inherent system to process and integrate the information that got stored or stuck. EMDR Therapy will not erase the memory, rather you will be able to remember the story without the emotional charge that was distressing

before the treatment.

EMDR Therapy is a comprehensive approach to therapy that integrates elements of psychodynamic, cognitive behavioral, interpersonal, experiential, and body-centered therapies to maximize treatment effects. EMDR Therapy with an emphasis on a healing attachment trauma provides a present-centered, felt experience of connection. Effective therapy allows clients to develop new relationship expectations and find meaningful connections in the world.