Finding the Magic in the Neurotype: Using EMDR with Neurodivergent Clients

Article exploring impactful adaptations to EMDR when working with neurodivergent clients, including aspects of the author’s lived experience.

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Using EMDR to Treat PTSD Associated with Traumatic Brain Injury: Navigating a Changed Brain and Sense of Self

With an ever-growing list of diagnoses under the neurodiverse umbrella, what does this mean for how we practice EMDR?

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Community Voices: Neurodiverse Clients

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

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Counselor’s Corner: ADHD Medications

EMDR therapists respond to the question “Does anyone have any insight on clients taking stimulant medications for ADHD…?”

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Breaking the Cycle: The Link Between ADHD and Depression and How EMDR Can Enhance Workplace Performance

Joel Kouame discusses impacts of ADHD and depression and how EMDR therapy can enhance workplace performance.

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Eye movements desensitization and reprocessing with finger movements and Elite mobile health software on guilt feeling of parents of children with autism: A randomized trial (Journal of Psychiatric and Mental Health Nursing)

This randomized controlled trial (RCT) examined the impact of different ways to reduce guilt in parents of autistic children, including EMDR therapy.

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EMDRIA Members Respond: Neurodiversity Celebration Week

EMDR therapists celebrate Neurodiversity Celebration Week by identifying internal and external resources in their clients.

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EMDR Therapy and Neurodiversity

EMDR-certified therapist and consultant Laurel Thornton discusses EMDR therapy, neurodiversity, and the neurodivergent.

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Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing Therapy for Individuals With Neurodevelopmental Disorders: A Systematic Review (Journal of EMDR Practice and Research)

This study looks at children, young people, and those with neurodevelopmental disorders who are at higher risk of facing traumatic events.

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EMDR Therapy and ADHD

EMDRIA member Christine MacInnis discusses the spectrum of neurodivergence and using EMDR therapy with people who have ADHD.

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Affirm Your Practice

Read case vignettes that affirm using EMDR therapy with neurodiverse clients in this article from Go With That Magazine.

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Eye movement desensitization and reprocessing in adolescents with autism; Efficacy on ASD symptoms and stress (Frontiers in Psychiatry)

Results of this uncontrolled study suggest a partial effect of EMDR in adolescents with autism spectrum disorder symptoms.

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