EMDR Therapy and the Perinatal Period GWT Magazine® Issue

EMDR Therapy and the Perinatal Period Go With That Magazine® Issue

We invited several authors to write topics in and around using EMDR therapy with perinatal clients and during the perinatal period in the Summer 2025 Go With That Magazine® issue. We are sharing Mara Tesler Stein’s article here, and EMDRIA members can access all other articles and issues in the Go With That Magazine®.

Myth-busting EMDR therapy in the perinatal period: A call to clarity for EMDR clinicians

By: Mara Tesler Stein, PsyD, PMH-C

Excerpt: “Let’s talk about myths.

Because they’re everywhere.

When clients walk into your office already pregnant… or find out they’re pregnant while in treatment… or are deep in the postpartum fog… or five years into fertility treatments… or grieving a loss so profound there aren’t words for it yet…the question comes up.

Can I use EMDR therapy with this person? If so, which phases? When? Is it safe? Is it appropriate? Will I do harm?

These are good questions.

These are ethical questions.

But far too often, they’re answered with fear, not data. With assumptions and opinions passed down from consultant to consultee, often rooted not in clinical discernment but in omission bias, and in a well-meaning but misplaced idea of protection.

So, let’s pause and ground ourselves in what we know about trauma, the brain, development, healing, and attachment. And about what’s at stake when we don’t intervene.”

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