When Self-Care Isn’t Enough: How EMDR Can Help Therapists Deal with Vicarious Trauma
EMDRIA member Skye Ross discusses the importance of helping therapists impacted by trauma work, offering EMDR recent events protocols as an effective way to address vicarious trauma for helpers.
The effect of eye movement desensitization and reprocessing therapy on cognitive failure in nurses working in COVID-19 wards (Iranian Journal of Nursing and Midwifery Research)
The aim of this randomized clinical trial study was to evaluate the effect of EMDR therapy on cognitive failure among nurses.
Enhancing EMDR with bone-conduction bilateral stimulation: A case study in an NHS talking therapies service (EMDR Therapy Quarterly, Summer 2026)
This case study evaluates EMDR augmented with bone‑conduction bilateral stimulation (BLS) with an ambulance paramedic in an NHS talking therapies service.
Eye movement desensitization and reprocessing (EMDR) for shame related offense trauma in a justice involved individual presenting with active suicidality and self-harm (Journal of Clinical Psychology)
This case study builds on the existing research base and highlights the utility of EMDR for the treatment of offense-related shame, self-harm and active suicidality.
The Vermont research trial protocol: A mixed-methods study of group EMDR integrated with compassion-focused therapy for PTSD, complex PTSD, and moral injury in first responders and law enforcement officers (Journal of EMDR Practice and Research)
This mixed-methods feasibility study evaluates an intensive group intervention integrating EMDR, delivered via the Acute Stress Adaptive Protocol (ASAP), with Compassion-Focused Therapy (CFT) for first responders and law enforcement officers, including frontline healthcare workers.
Efficacy of eye movement desensitization and reprocessing (EMDR) on anxiety severity among physicians and nurses working in intensive care units (Critical Care Research and Practice)
This study aimed to evaluate the efficacy of EMDR in reducing anxiety severity among intensive care unit (ICU) physicians and nurses.
What integration actually felt like: A psychologist’s lived experience of dissociative identity disorder (Psychiatric Services)
A personal account following a psychologist navigating dissociative identity disorder who engages in EMDR therapy among other intensive trauma treatments and describes their understanding of integrative healing.
Interventions for post-traumatic stress disorder among first responders: Implications for public health response and system resilience (International Journal of Emergency Medicine)
This study aimed to synthesize evidence on the effectiveness, feasibility, and sustainability of psychological interventions, including EMDR therapy, for PTSD among first responders, with particular attention to their relevance for EMS personnel.
Eye movement desensitization and reprocessing for occupational memories associated with prolonged depressive and trauma-related symptoms after COVID-10 administrative redeployment: A public health nurse case report (Industrial Health)
This case study utilizing EMDR therapy with a public health nurse illustrates the clinical relevance of assessing occupational memories as possible contributors to persistent trauma-related symptoms after administrative redeployment.
Group EMDR in high-risk environments: Clinical and qualitative findings from G-TEP (Social Work With Groups)
This mixed-methods study evaluated the feasibility and effects of the EMDR Group Traumatic Episode Protocol (G-TEP) among relief workers deployed after the February 2023 earthquakes in Türkiye.
Healing Cumulative Trauma in Law Enforcement with EMDR Therapy
EMDRIA member Dr. Stacy Raymond discusses the helpful impact EMDR therapy can have with law enforcement and first responders carrying cumulative trauma.
Posttraumatic growth in self-referred healthcare workers to the trauma response network UK during COVID-19: An exploratory study (Journal of Aggression, Maltreatment, and Trauma)
This study aimed to examine posttraumatic growth and its associations with PTSD, depression, dissociation, and resilience in healthcare workers who sought support from the Trauma Response Network UK (the national EMDR response to mass trauma) during the first six months of the pandemic.
