Trauma requires professional assistance to help you overcome the negative emotions and effects that come with it. EMDR therapy is one of the reliable psychotherapy methods with proof to help patients recover from negative traumatic experiences. The therapy addresses unprocessed traumatic events while providing meaningful results over a short time. The EMDR Treatment Centers exploit the therapy, which enables the brain to release the flight, freeze, and flight instincts associated with the traumatic experience you got exposed to. The treatment has a well-highlighted protocol that your therapist follows to achieve the desired results. The phases include:
History and treatment planning
To develop a working treatment plan, your therapist focuses on your life history, which is the first step toward achieving the desired result. You get an opportunity to speak to the therapists about the specific challenges that made you resort to therapy treatment. When sharing the information, you need to focus more on how the experiences prevent you from living a healthy life to give the therapist a clear understanding of the intensive therapy retreat problem.
Treatment Preparation
Treatment preparation is the second phase of the treatment, where the therapist explains the EMDR theory in detail. You will get taught specific techniques which will enable you to deal with emotions that overwhelm you during the sessions you’ll have. The various techniques include safe space exercises and the imagination of a secure attachment relationship, which improve the success of the procedure, among other techniques.
Assessments
Assessment is the third phase of the Intensive Trauma Therapy Retreat, where the therapist helps you to create a list of negative memories in the order in which they occurred and rate them based on how they affected you. This phase’s goal is to reduce the intensity with which the experiences prevent you from living a healthy everyday life. EMDR works well for depression from how you were negatively treated as a child.
Desensitization
Desensitization mainly focuses on reducing the negative emotions resulting from the traumatic experience. The EMDR therapy retreat process enables you to follow your thoughts and achieve complete healing by reducing negative emotions. Your therapist guides you through eye movements and sound times between thirty to sixty seconds and discusses things that popped up before moving to the next steps.
Installation
After reducing the negative emotions comes the installation phase, which increases the positive belief you have discovered. Using the same method as desensitization, the positive beliefs get well put and enable you to resume healthy living.
Body scan
In this phase, the negative Therapy Retreat memory gets brought back to see if it still affects you as it did before. The body scan phase is crucial as it is proven that the body keeps information on traumatic events, and the success of the treatment gets determined when there are no physical sensations associated with the traumatic experience.
Closure and Reevaluation
Your therapist furthers you on the processes that might follow if new material arises about your treatment and what to expect between sessions. Also, every day the therapist revisits your worst things list to ascertain the progress made from the treatment.