Re: Don't Be Scared Away

I respect your decision to not approach EMDR again, and I am sorry to hear about your bad experiences, because it didn't have to be that way.

There is a large discussion group of EMDR practitioners who confer online about many things, and I mentioned this discussion to them, as a powerful impetus for clinicians to take even more seriously the urgent need to know how to do EMDR for complex cases, when the trauma occurred early in life, and there are profound mixed emotions and pain within the client.

EMDR has been around for 13 years now, and much more is known clinically, though the studies lag behind, about how to avoid problems using EMDR.

I am recommitting myself to getting the word out to EMDR clinicians, that it is imperative that they know how to do EMDR with complicated cases, just because this is such a powerful tool (the opposite of what some people on this site are saying).

Using the client reports on this forum as an example to this group of clinicians will help. Then your painful experience will have served a good purpose, though I'm still sorry it happened to you. There are many EMDR clinicians who know just what to do in cases like yours.

Warm Regards, --Dr. Paulsen

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