Re: Social Phobia & EMDR

I think that you are quite right. When a person has experienced only one trauma and that trauma is fairly recent EMDR tends to go quite quickly. It is very important to recognize that this is not always the case as there are excpetions. When a person has experience many traumas like you have reported therapy can take quite a long time and require a lot of very hard work on both your part and the therapist. This is true of EMDR therapy as well. It is a bit unfortunate that some of the early cases (which often involved a single recent trauma) gave the some people the impression that EMDR should only take a few sessions, even in very complicated cases. My experience is that complicated multi trauma cases respond very well to EMDR, but take time and skill and dedication from both therapist and patient. You certainly sound like a person of great courage and I wish you well in therapy.
Bob

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