Healing the Past: EMDR Therapy for Generational Trauma
Susan Weissbach Friedman, breaks down how traumatic patterns can be passed down through families—and how EMDR helps disrupt that cycle.
Enhancing Trauma Recovery in BIPOC Communities with EMDR Therapy
Learn practical EMDR strategies to support healing in BIPOC clients through culturally sensitive, client-centered approaches.
EMDR Therapy for Caregivers of Neurodivergent Clients
This podcast explores the unique challenges caregivers of neurodivergent individuals face and how EMDR therapy can help.
Generational Trauma, Warrior Genetics, and EMDR therapy
EMDRIA member Erika Yourdan breaks down the concept of generational resilience in the form of warrior genetics and offers a practical strategy for EMDR therapists.
EMDR, Generational Trauma and Criminal Recidivism: Toward Safer Communities
Explore how EMDR in prisons addresses developmental trauma and reduces recidivism by healing early attachment wounds.
Trauma, Attachment and Formative Experience: An EMDR Paradigm Shift?
Discover attachment-informed EMDR using creative interweaves, case structure, and early-life targeting to transform formative patterns.
Distinct saliva DNA methylation profiles in relation to treatment outcome in youth with posttraumatic stress disorder (Translational Psychiatry)
This study investigated the link between epigenetic mechanisms like the DNA methylation genes and previously associated biological mechanisms with treatment outcome.
DNA methylation changes in association with trauma-focused psychotherapy efficacy in treatment-resistant depression patients: A prospective longitudinal study (European Journal of Psychotraumatology)
This article looks at the effects of trauma-focused psychotherapy on DNA methylation alterations.
EMDR Therapy and Intergenerational Trauma
EMDRIA member Viviana Urdaneta discusses how EMDR therapy can help heal intergenerational trauma.
African American narratives of trauma: An EMDR approach to tapping into the strengths of Black love (Cambridge, 2023)
A culturally relevant model of applying EMDR for building self-efficacy, worth, trust, and intimacy within Black romantic partnerships.
EMDR safety platform for early and transgenerational trauma: Description and an OCD application (BP International, 2023)
The “EMDR Safety Platform Protocol” (EMDR-SP) used for transgenerational & attachment traumas, OCD, & affective self-regulation failures.
Historical Trauma & It’s Modern Impacts on American Indians (SIG Brief Presentation)
Saunders encourages awareness of intergenerational trauma as it relates to therapy with underserved populations (e.g. American Indians).
