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If you, like me, don’t know if you’ve experienced a traumatic event or not—or if you know you have—take a look at EMDR therapy.

Healing our stories can lessen our pain.

EMDR aims to process trauma in a more detached way than simply retelling the stories, which can be too emotionally intense. It works in eight phases: history taking, client preparation, assessment, desensitization, installation, body scan, closure, and reevaluation of treatment effect.

Why eye movement desensitization and reprocessing — or EMDR — may help treat trauma.

Those who work with eye movement desensitization and reprocessing to treat trauma share the pros and cons.

Over the past two decades, the use of eye movement desensitization and reprocessing (EMDR) therapy has provided researchers and clinicians with the ability to observe how symptoms develop and can be rapidly treated.

Russell Brand & Jameela Jamil discuss Jameela's experience with EMDR therapy.