Couples Archives

Evaluating the effectiveness of eye movement desensitization and reprocessing (EMDR) in reducing anxiety, marital burnout, and self-disgust among women who have suffered domestic violence (International Journal of Behavioral Sciences)

This study explored effectiveness of EMDR therapy in reducing anxiety, marital burnout, and feelings of self-disgust among women in Iran who have experienced domestic violence.

EMDR and sexual disorders: A practitioner’s guide to treating sexual trauma and dysfunction (Routledge, 2025)

Provides guidelines for the treatment of sexual dysfunctions with EMDR therapy within the framework of attachment theory.

EMDR Therapy for Couples GWT Magazine® Issue

We invited several authors to write about “EMDR Therapy for Couples” in the Fall 2024 Go With That Magazine® issue.

EMDR Therapy for Couples (Go With That Magazine® Issue)

In this issue, we explore EMDR therapy in couples therapy: helping partners navigate past wounds, improve communication, and rebuild trust.

Community Voices: EMDR and Couples

EMDR therapists respond to how aspects of a client’s culture/race are meaningful as a resource/challenge in using EMDR with couples.

Integrating EMDR and Couples Therapy

Integrating EMDR therapy into couples therapy is a promising new trend in psychotherapy, though it presents challenges.

Integrating EMDR in Emotionally-Focused Couple Therapy

This article explores how individual EMDR therapy could be modified for couples to possibly expand its potential for healing.

EMDR with Couples: A Somatic and Attachment Lens

EMDR with couples is a natural fit. EMDR clinicians can quickly observe how couples are triggering each other’s past, unresolved memories.

Sex Therapy Treatment for a Couple in a Sexless Relationship: EMDR and CBT Therapy, the Perfect Therapeutic Couple

Combining EMDR and CBT can be effective as a duo, and even referred to as a match made in heaven or the perfect therapeutic couple.

Treating Interpersonal Dependency and Pathological Bonding Patterns (ID-PBP) with EMDR

This article examines how EMDR can help heal the effects of interpersonal dependency and pathological bonding.

Comparison of the effectiveness of eye movement desensitization and reprocessing therapy and imago therapy approaches in social adequacy, altruism, difficulty in regulating emotion and failure of every day in women involved in emotional divorce (Iranian Sociological Review)

Study compared effectiveness of EMDR Therapy and Imago Therapy approaches for people involved in emotional divorce.

EMDR Therapy, Intimate Partner Violence, and the LGBTQIA+ Community

Domestic violence, or intimate partner violence, affects many types of communities. This post features Sue Genest’s Go With That Magazine article “EMDR, 2SLBGTQPIA+ Community and Intimate Partner Violence.”

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