In the News: March 28, 2025

EMDRIA members and EMDR therapy are featured in various articles and interviews. Learn more in this edition of In the News.

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Myth Busters: Myths Standing Between EMDR Practitioners and their Autistic and ADHD Clients | Part 1

EMDRIA members Erin Wheeler, Skylar Ibarra, and Jane Kosloff bust common myths regarding Autism and ADHD for therapists utilizing EMDR with neurodivergent clients.

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Psychedelic-assisted EMDR therapy: A memory-consolidation approach to psychedelic healing (Routledge, 2025)

This book provides readers with a comprehensive understanding of how EMDR’s adaptive information processing (AIP) model conceptualises healing outcomes in psychedelic settings.

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Using EMDR Therapy for High-Stress Professions

Christopher Brown, LCSW, shares insights on how EMDR can help individuals build resilience, improve mental health, and enhance performance.

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A Guide for EMDR Therapists to Address Insomnia Effectively

Abby Neuberg and Holly Forman-Patel, EMDRIA members, discuss working with clients who struggle with sleep and insomnia as well as EMDR strategies to address insomnia.

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Post-traumatic stress disorder and its associated factors among internally displaced people due to conflict in Northwest Ethiopia (Frontiers in Public Health)

This study aimed to determine the prevalence of PTSD among internally displaced people in Northwest Ethiopia and recommends EMDR therapy alongside other treatment options.

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Using spirituality in EMDR therapy (Routledge, 2025)

This book offers a means for EMDR therapists to integrate a spiritual perspective into their own lives as well as their clinical practice.

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Ethics and EMDR Therapy

EMDRIA members Jennifer Madere and D. Michael Coy discuss ethical considerations for EMDR therapy from a trauma-informed perspective.

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Eye movement desensitization and reprocessing for posttraumatic stress disorder following acquired brain injury: A multiple baseline single case experimental design study across four cases (Neuropsychological Rehabilitation)

This study investigated the effectiveness and applicability of EMDR therapy for PTSD in individuals with acquired brain injury (ABI).

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Examining the effectiveness of the eye movement desensitization and reprocessing integrative group treatment protocol (EMDR Group Protocol) for hard-to-reach populations in ongoing traumatic situations in Burundi (International Perspectives in Psychology)

This study tested the effectiveness of the EMDR group protocol among mental health workers exposed to traumatic experiences in Burundi.

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The effect of trauma-focused therapy on voice-hearing: An experience sampling study (Psychology and Psychotherapy Theory, Research, and Practice)

Study investigated the effect of trauma-focused therapy (prolonged exposure and EMDR therapy) on voice-hearing in people with PTSD and psychosis. 

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Response of patients with complex forms of PTSD to highly intensive trauma treatment: A clinical cohort study (Psychological Trauma: Theory, Research, Practice, and Policy)

This study investigated whether patients with the dissociative subtype of PTSD (PTSD + DS) and patients with probable complex PTSD (CPTSD) draw equal benefits from a highly intensive trauma treatment program that includes EMDR therapy as patients with PTSD.

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