Re: emdr facilitator

I decided to add to this to explain why I am asking.
I am currently using emdr. My therapist and I have spent only 2 sessions before we started the emdr. However, I feel like it is wasting my time. I do not feel safe during or after any session. If my therapist asks me what I would like to do, I choose to do soemthing other than emdr.
I understand that I need to process the "old stuff" but I am finding that I spend the following week in a constant crisis mode... feeling depressed and suicidal. I have what I think may be flashbacks. Now, during a emdr session, I feel like I process nothing. It sounds weird, but I will not allow myself to go that deep, so I am just not feeling anything. I feel pushed. One session, my therapist was going over some of the targets that we have "processed" and/or finished. I became extremely agitated in hearing them, and actually shouted at my therapist that I was aware of what they were, and I didnt need to hear them again. Does this mean they have not cleared? My therapist has not said anything about them, and has not gone back to these finished targets. I am finding it more and more difficult to keep trusting this therapist as I feel like i am expected to get this cleared up. Should i try to find another one? Or should I just plow through it?

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Re: emdr facilitator, by Shapiro, 12/27/99

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