Top 10 Things EMDR Therapists Need to Know When Working with EMDR and Ketamine-Assisted Psychotherapy
Top ten things EMDR therapists need to know before exploring ketamine’s unique neurochemical effects to facilitate therapeutic breakthroughs.
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Fixing “Bad Trips”? Exploring EMDR as a Psychedelic Safety Net
As psychedelic use expands, particularly in non-clinical settings, there’s an urgent need for more open conversations around adverse outcomes.
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Holding the Infant and the Infinite: Interweaving Attachment-informed and Transpersonal Frameworks into Psychedelic-assisted EMDR Therapy
Rooted in a relational container, EMDR therapists can use attachment-informed and transpersonal techniques to enhance PsyA-EMDR therapy.
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EMDR and Psychedelic-Assisted Therapy: A Match Made in Heaven?
Even if you have no interest in psychedelic-assisted therapy, your clients may bring psychedelic experiences—both beneficial & challenging—for reprocessing.
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Comparing the effectiveness of online therapy versus in-person therapy in youth: Protocol for a non-inferiority randomized controlled trial (Trials)
In a randomized controlled trial, this protocol would aim to compare the results of online Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) and EMDR therapy to in-person treatment.
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Editorial retraction (Journal of EMDR Practice and Research)
An editorial retraction notice.
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Exploring the relationship between breastfeeding and psychological well-being after traumatic childbirth: A secondary analysis of the PERCEIVE study data (Journal of Psychosomatic Obstetrics & Gynecology)
This study investigates associations between breastfeeding outcomes and psychological well-being in women with traumatic birth experiences, utilizing data from the PERCEIVE trial, which assessed EMDR therapy effectiveness on PTSD after childbirth trauma.
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Early eye movement desensitisation and reprocessing (EMDR) therapy for traumatic birth experience: Treatment for maternal postpartum post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) (Evidence-Based Nursing)
EMDR therapy for traumatic birth experience and maternal postpartum PTSD.
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A comparison of attachment-based EMDR therapy and standard EMDR therapy for adolescents with bullying-related trauma symptoms: A randomized controlled trial (Acta Psychologica)
This study evaluated the efficacy of Attachment-Based EMDR (AB-EMDR) in reducing trauma and anxiety symptoms in adolescent bullying victims compared to standard EMDR therapy.
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Exploring EMDR: An innovative approach with Posner Paradigm to reprocessing negative memories in a non-clinical sample (Frontiers in Psychiatry)
This study explored the underlying mechanisms of EMDR, with results suggesting that the mechanism of attention shifting is what plays a critical role in the therapeutic process.
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Can EMDR Therapy Help Functional Neurological Disorder (FND) or Functional Non-Epileptic Seizures?
Dr. Cope addresses a popular question EMDR therapists ask about: using EMDR therapy with psychogenic non-epileptic seizures (PNES). We learned PNES is an outdated term, replaced by functional/dissociative seizures, a potential symptom cluster that falls under functional neurological disorder (FND).
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Trauma-informed training as a path to intergroup readiness: A mixed-methods evaluation of EMDR education in a shared society context (Frontiers in Psychology)
This mixed-methods study examined how participation in a shared EMDR training program influenced professional self-efficacy, intergroup openness, and reconciliation readiness among therapists working within a conflict-affected society.
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