(Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing) ...is a relatively new therapy that has received recognition as being particularly effective in the treatment of trauma, anxiety, phobia, and unrelenting grief. The treatment helps free individuals from the effects of troubling experinces, while empowering them to move forward toward a positive future.
It is an integrative approach that uses the brain's information processing system to "reload" a difficult experience into a more functional memory network that includes appropriate thoughts, feelings, and body sensations. With the use of an external stimulus, such as a light bar, the memory of the traumatic event is actually reprocessed and freshly stored in a new area of the brain, resulting in the rapid relief of distressing symptoms, often within a brief series of sessions.