Re:Duration of Treatment

I appreciate your persevering with your point here -- it is one that is indeed important to make.

I have had a number of patients with decades of prior talk therapy who say they got to whole levels of different experience of their therapy work with the addition of EMDR. I don't think EMDR alone is what we did, but many things we did included EMDR as a nearly continuous addition.

I have an idea that it is like digging up carrots. By that I mean that talk therapy can sometimes get out the carrot but sometimes breaks off the top, as the carrot is deep in the ground. EMDR therapy acts a bit like a pitchfork, that allows us to get underneath the carrot, apply pressure so that, VOILA, the carrot comes up from the depths. So EMDR allows us to get underneath the very fundament of the early experience/trauma. It lets us get at it better.

City dwellers please forgive the agricultural metaphor if you have never struggled to unearth a carrot -- you see, I've just moved to Sacramento California and the black dirt and verdant spring are inspiring my metaphors today.

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