In the News
EMDR therapy is mentioned as a treatment of choice for PTSD in U.S. Veterans Affairs article “Getting Clean With Help From the VA Maryland Health Care System.” The article tells the story of one veteran John Jeffrey’s journey through PTSD and addiction.
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EMDRIA member Beverly Taylor, LMFT discusses the benefits of combining ketamine assisted psychotherapy (KAP) and EMDR therapy in NewTimes’ article “Family Counseling and Trauma Healing Center Combines Ketamine Assisted Psychotherapy with Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing to Speed Up Recovery.”
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Huffpost article “I Couldn’t Stop Yelling At My Kids. Then I Uncovered Something Surprising From My Childhood That Was Causing It” discusses a personal story of healing childhood wounds using EMDR therapy and IFS: “I was surprised to uncover this because I had a ‘good’ childhood.”
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EMDRIA member Michelle Kahl, LPC is the keynote speaker at a Penn State event: Stamp Out Stigma. PennState’s article “Stamp Out Stigma Mental Health Awareness Event to Spotlight Occupational Trauma” shares the event will focus on professional traumatic experiences in the work life of front-line workers like nurses, EMTs and law enforcement as well as vicarious traumatic work experiences for people in the helping professions.
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EMDR therapy is featured in Women’s Health article “How to Pick the Best Alternative Therapy for You: 4 Types Explained” as a “well-established, first-line therapy for PTSD.”
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EMDRIA member Bonnie Rumilly, LCSW is interviewed in Firefighter Nation podcast “Igniting the Shift Within: The Mental Health Journey for First Responders” which features topics important to firefighters and first responders. Rumilly discusses EMDR therapy “illustrating its benefits in processing trauma.”
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Worcester Magazine article “Harvey: Airport Anxiety a Window into Deeper Childhood Trauma” discusses the author’s experience with the fear of being lost and how EMDR therapy helped.
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EMDRIA member Chelsea Hill-Gazerro, LICSW is featured in The Independent news article “Wellness Center expands Mission of Connecting Mind, Body” and speaks about her passion for healing trauma “through methods such as EMDR. In the spirit of Embodied Living, this method is also connected to the body.”
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EMDR therapy is featured in Doctors Without Borders article “How Psychologists in Ukraine Are Healing PTSD With Learnings From US Veterans” as a “way of helping patients process their traumatic memories, so they are stored differently in their brains…. The aim is to form new neural connections that transform how the traumatic memory is stored, leading to a reduction of trauma-related symptoms.”
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Bustle article “‘Brain Flossing’ Will Help You Chill Out In Minutes” discusses a trend that’s gone viral on TikTok with roots in the EMDR therapy toolbox. ‘Brain flossing’ is a term for bilateral stimulation music, or sounds that bounce between your right and left ears, and some people experience relief from stress and anxiety when listening to bilateral stimulation music.
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EMDR therapy hits the arts. Georgia Strait article “The Automatic Message Takes a Deep Dive Into PTSD” discusses a “four-channel film installation” by an artist pair ‘The Automatic Message’ hailing from Vancouver. The film’s title is EMDR and “delves into PTSD, trauma, and healing inspired by one of the artist’s (Trevor Jacobson) personal experience with EMDR.
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Date
February 27, 2025
