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EMDR Therapy, Addiction, and Recovery

September is National Recovery Month, a time to recognize those in recovery and those struggling with addiction. Recovery is possible. We turned to EMDRIA member Dr. Stephen Dansiger for more…

Celebrating Community Cultural Wealth for Hispanic Heritage Month

Celebrating Hispanic Heritage Month: Embracing Community Cultural Wealth Hispanic Heritage Month, observed from September 15 to October 15 in the United States, is a time to honor Hispanic and Latino…

How EMDR Therapy Can Help

How EMDR Therapy Can Help EMDR therapy helps by creating connections. Our innate information processing system wants to move toward healthy and adaptive responses like the physical body is geared…

EMDR Therapy and Traumatic Brain Injury

EMDR Therapy and TBI Guest Blog Post by Dr. Michelle Morrissey Tell us a little about you, your experience becoming an EMDR therapist, and your experience with traumatic…

“What Should Clients Know Before Starting EMDR Therapy?” – Part 2

Potential EMDR clients regularly ask what they should know before starting EMDR therapy. The range of answers can go in many directions, including knowledge about the process of EMDR itself,…

“What Should Clients Ask An EMDR Therapist?” – Part 1

Potential EMDR clients regularly ask what they should know before starting EMDR therapy. The range of answers can go in many directions, including knowledge about the process of EMDR, the…

EMDRIA Members Respond: Celebrating RESI Recipients and BIPOC Mental Health Month

We are celebrating BIPOC Mental Health Month in July by highlighting our RESI recipients. Originally named National Minority Mental Health Awareness Month, BIPOC Mental Health Month is a time to…

EMDR Therapy and First Responders

EMDR Therapy and First Responders Guest Blog Post by Kate Pieper, LMFT Tell us a little bit about you, your experience becoming an EMDR therapist, and your experience…

EMDR Therapy and Suicide Postvention

Guest Blog Post by Marlene Kenney, LICSW Tell us a little about you, your experience becoming an EMDR therapist, and how you became interested in suicide postvention. My career…

EMDR Therapy, Sexual Trauma & Intimate Partner Violence

According to the Rape, Abuse, and Incest National Network (RAINN), “sexual violence” is an all-encompassing, non-legal term for crimes like sexual assault, rape, and sexual abuse. The legal definition of…

EMDRIA Members Respond: Identity Representation for LGBTQIA+ Pride

Pride Month is a time to celebrate LGBTQIA+ folks and their freedom to live authentically. We know that in therapy, our clients’ identity matters and that clients do best when…

EMDR Early Intervention

EMDR early intervention (EEI) is important to so many people in the world who are facing traumas such as fires, earthquakes, war, political and personal violence, and personal loss. There…

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