EMDR Eye Movement Desensitisation and Reprocessing (EMDR) was originally designed to alleviate the distress associated with traumatic memories (Shapiro, 1989). Shapiro’s (2001) Adaptive Information Processing Model posits that EMDR facilitates the accessing and processing of traumatic memories to bring these to an adaptive resolution. During EMDR the client attends to emotionally disturbing material, in brief … Continue reading Eye Movement Desensitisation and Reprocessing