EMDR in College Counseling Center Settings

• EMDR in College Counseling Center Settings by Patricia A. Doherty, 3/11/98
  
  

I worked in such a setting for 7 years, and I can see where EMDR would be a good tool to have available. I recently used a single session of EMDR to assist in a 4 session brief treatment course for a member of a local college community. The presenting problem had to do with a traumatic childhood with a mother who was emotionally abusive.

The client was able to let go of self-blame and understand that they were not responsible for the lousy relationship that they had with their mother. It seems to me that it works best when people are "stuck" in the present because of an "irrational belief" (dysfunctional cognition, whatever) which stems from the way they processed some event in the past.

You may want to take the Level 1 training and then begin to apply it conservatively with a student or two who is stuck.

Leonard Holmes http://mentalhealth.miningco.com

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