Dr. Jenny Hughes

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we talked about in the lightning round, is this only for veterans or people who have experienced some huge major trauma

life?

So that was where a lot of the original research started.

It's also easier to research those kinds of things as opposed to complex PTSD when we're talking about experiencing trauma laterally.

consistently and chronically over the course of one's life.

EMDR can work with any of those things.

And even when someone comes in and they're like, I don't know, it's like everything's going fine in my life, but I just, I'm always doubting myself.

I never feel like I'm good enough.

And that's something that we can work on in

You're not.

And so it certainly looks like it could be hypnotizing.

And when we're thinking about a somatic and bottom-up intervention, it can be confusing because you actually are allowing access to the body.

And with the bilateral eye movement, it can put you into almost a more relaxed or meditative state.

But

EMDR and hypnosis psychotherapy are different interventions.

They both have their evidence bases and they are both effective for a lot of different things.

But with EMDR, what we know now from the research is that the bilateral movements or stimulation is, it's not hypnotizing you.

It's actually, it's kind of distracting your brain.

So the technical term is it's taxing working memory, right?

And so our working memory is the part of our memories.

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