Next, an assessment creates a baseline for your positive and negative memories.
However, desensitization can also be completed using stimuli like knee tapping, changing lights, or audio cues.
The following steps repeat and expand on these goals.
What does it actually do?
By tackling unprocessed traumatic memories, we may be able to desensitize ourselves to them.
In conjunction with the next step, installation, practitioners work to replace negative belief patterns with positive ones.
In the closure step, therapists typically end EMDR sessions using relaxation techniques.
