EMDR - Therapy delivered to the comfort of your home

When the pandemic hit, we were all required to use an online format to deliver EMDR therapy.  I use a HIPAA compliant portal to meet you online; we still get to face each other, and use the EMDR protocol effectively, and the only difference is that we face each other on a video screen, rather than sit with each other in an office. 

The benefit is that you can benefit from therapy in the comfort of your home, and you can schedule your sessions with more ease (cutting out any travel time).  This has worked extremely well with my clients, and therapists have been using this format long before the pandemic. 

Here is some research to support the use of EMDR in a virtual setting - 

• Brown, G. O. S. (2021). Reflections on Providing Virtual Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing Therapy in the Wake of COVID-19: Survival Through Adaptation. In Shared Trauma, Shared Resilience During a Pandemic (pp. 235-248). Springer, Cham
• Jones, C., Miguel-Cruz, A., Smith-MacDonald, L., Cruikshank, E., Baghoori, D., Chohan, A. K., ... & Brémault-Phillips, S. (2020). Virtual Trauma-Focused Therapy for Military Members, Veterans, and Public Safety Personnel With Posttraumatic Stress Injury: Systematic Scoping Review. JMIR mHealth and uHealth, 8(9), e22079
• Tarquinio, C., Brennstuhl, M. J., Rydberg, J. A., Bassan, F., Peter, L., Tarquinio, C. L., ... & Tarquinio, P. (2020). EMDR in telemental health counseling for healthcare workers caring for COVID-19 patients: a pilot study. Issues in Mental Health Nursing, 1-12.
• Bongaerts, et al. (2021). Safety and effectiveness of intensive treatment for complex PTSD delivered via home-based telehealth

Find out more today.
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Chris Warren-Dickins LLB MA LPC
Psychotherapist, (Licensed Professional Counselor)
www.exploretransform.com  

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