EMDR Lebanon Association is presenting another Basic EMDR Therapy Training Course to train a new group of licensed psychologists.
EMDR therapy is Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing, and it is an evidence-based psychotherapy approach that has been proven effective for the treatment of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder and other psychological disorders that developed after disturbing life experiences. EMDR therapy, developed by Francine Shapiro, is based on the model of Adaptive Information Processing (AIP) that posits that much of psychopathology is due to the maladaptive encoding of and/or incomplete processing of traumatic life experiences. This impairs the person’s ability to integrate these experiences in an adaptive manner. EMDR therapy facilitates the accessing and processing of traumatic memories to bring them to an adaptive resolution.