Re:i want to accept me but i still wonder

Since 1992 therapists in EMDR trainings have been counselled to do a screening for dissociative clients before ever doing EMDR with someone. When a client is dissociative, the therapist should not do EMDR unless they have familiarity with treating dissociative disorders and have familiarity with the special emdr protocol for treating dissociative disorders.

The reason this caution is in place is because EMDR is a dissociation finder, and it seems to lance dissociative barriers, which can cause emotional flooding. Once dissociative barriers are down, they don't easily come back up, though hypnosis can sometimes help put things back in the box for some people.

There are many phases of work that need to be done first for dissociative folks prior to EMDR work, and the EMDR work itself needs to be fractionated, that is, broken into small pieces.

There is a lot to it, which is why there is a two day workshop I offer to professionals to help them get the hang of it.

If an EMDR therapist doesn't do these cautionary and preparatory steps, and a dissociative client gets overwhelmed by doing EMDR without the necessary groundwork being in place, it is not the client's fault at all.

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