EYE MOVEMENT, DESENSITIZATION and reprocessing

It is a treatment approach that can be used to treat many different mental health disorders such as depression, anxiety and post-traumatic stress symptoms.  Traumatic and painful memories can cause post-traumatic stress when you don't process them completely.  Sights, sounds, words or smells can trigger those unprocessed memories, you re-experience them.  This re-experiencing leads to the emotional distress and other symptoms that can interfere in the way you really want to live your life.  

EMDR aims to reduce symptoms of trauma by changing how your memories are stored in your brain.  This can be done in a number of different ways, but the most commonly known technique is using bilateral (side-to-side) eye movements as you recall stressful memories in small segments, until those memories no longer cause distress.