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EMDR Therapy and Addictions: Client Handout

Addictions to substances and behaviors often begin as a way to cope with underlying pain connected to trauma. This client handout explains how EMDR therapy can help.

Challenges for Clients with Addictions

Clients with addictions and compulsive behaviors face unique challenges in their healing process. EMDR therapists should keep these 5 challenges in mind.

EMDR Addictions Acronyms

Do you understand DeTUR, CravEd, or LoUA? These—and more—acronyms are explained for EMDR therapists working with clients with addictions.

JEMDR Addictions Articles

A round-up of citations from our peer-reviewed Journal of EMDR Practice and Research on the use of EMDR to help addictions and compulsive behaviors.

Palette of EMDR Interventions in Addiction (PEIA)

This graphic overview shows resourcing and EMDR therapy interventions in addiction. Two approaches are addressed: trauma-focused and addiction-focused EMDR therapy.

Al interviews Dr. Joyce Baptist, professor in the couple and family therapy program at Kansas state University, on the topic of eye movement desensitization & reprocessing (EMDR) therapy (The Depression Files)

Dr. Joyce Baptist discusses using EMDR therapy for depression in this podcast episode of The Depression Files.

Trauma informed interventions: A systematic review (PLOS ONE)

The purpose of this study was to appraise the types, setting, scope, and delivery of trauma informed interventions and associated outcomes.

Efficacy of eye movement desensitization reprocessing (EMDR) in improving self-regulation of in-house Filipino clients with substance-use-disorder (Psikodimensia)

Study on efficacy of Desensitization of Triggers and Urge Reprocessing (DeTUR), an EMDR addiction protocol.

EMDR therapy and research: What have we got right and what can we improve? (EMDR UK EMDR Therapy Quarterly)

Woolliscroft reports on Lee’s 2021 EMDR Europe conference keynote address where he criticized EMDR research and suggested improvements.

Eye movement desensitization and reprocessing therapy for stress management (Guilford, 2021)

In this chapter, authors explore how eye movement desensitization and reprocessing (EMDR) therapy can help with stress management.

Eye movement desensitization and reprocessing in child and adolescent psychology: A narrative review (Current Treatment Options in Psychiatry)

The purpose of this article is to summarize the research results of EMDR therapy with children and adolescents through a narrative review of the scientific literature.

Prince Harry Used EMDR Therapy For His Trauma, And Maybe We Should Too (Scary Mommy)

When Prince Harry revealed that he has used EMDR to help him cope with the loss of his mother, the internet was buzzing.

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