Question for Practitioners: EMDR/DBT?

From an EMDR practitioner's perspective, is Dialectical Behavior Therapy compatible with EMDR techniques in helping a client with depression/PTSD/emotional dysregulation issues?

It seems to me that EMDR is based around processing past trauma as a means to make one's life better in the present - whereas DBT focuses on behavior modification and emotional skills development in the here and now, without regard to past issues. Therefore, would it be inappropriate and/or confusing to the client to mix the two approaches together (particularly if the individual psychotherapist and the DBT skills traininer are two separate clinicians?

Replies:

Re:Question for Practitioners: EMDR/DBT?, by Sandra Paulsen Inobe, PhD, 08/01/02 Re:Question for Practitioners: EMDR/DBT?, by TH, 08/01/02 Re:Question for Practitioners: EMDR/DBT?, by Ricky Greenwald, 08/12/02 Re:Question for Practitioners: EMDR/DBT?, by wondering, 08/13/02 Re:Question for Practitioners: EMDR/DBT?, by Sandra Paulsen Inobe, PhD, 08/16/02 Re:Question for Practitioners: EMDR/DBT?, by CA, Nurse/therapist, 08/16/02 Re:Question for Practitioners: EMDR/DBT?, by Celso Lugão da Veiga, 09/10/02

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