EMDR can be an effective treatment for childhood trauma, sexual and otherwise. Here are a few ways EMDR helps with addictions:
- Feel better, quicker when emotional discomfort is resolved at a deeper level.
- Desensitize intense fear and anxiety that is often associated with early sexualization.
- Lowering the intensity of current triggers helps in reducing the urge to ‘act-out’.
- Fear and stress associated with recent ‘acting out’ behavior can be reduced or eliminated.
- Knits together new ideas and understandings from task-centered counseling with new behaviors.
- Lessons from task-centered counseling can be reinforced and integrated.
- Unhealthy shame can be targeted and managed so feelings of guilt are reduced.
- Shame based behavior becomes more manageable.
- End nightmares
- End obsessive thinking