EMDR for cPTSD - 30+ sessions recommended

[anonymous12345]

Hi All and I hope you're well! Just wondering before I commit to the supposed 30+ required amount of sessions, does anyone have positive experience after a lot of EMDR sessions for complex PTSD?
Thank you

 

[MrMoonlight]

For nearly a year, I committed to weekly EMDR sessions, and I found them to be incredibly helpful for my PTSD. Although the sessions required me to relive my trauma, it ultimately made me much less reactive to my triggers. I am so glad I dedicated my efforts to this process.

If you choose to go this route, please ensure your therapist establishes a 'safe place' before you begin. This gives you a mental refuge to return to after EMDR. In my own experience and observations, some therapists unfortunately fail to install this.

 

[anonymous12345]

For nearly a year, I committed to weekly EMDR sessions, and I found them to be incredibly helpful for my PTSD. Although the sessions required me to relive my trauma, it ultimately made me much less reactive to my triggers. I am so glad I dedicated my efforts to this process.

If you choose to go this route, please ensure your therapist establishes a 'safe place' before you begin. This gives you a mental refuge to return to after EMDR. In my own experience and observations, some therapists unfortunately fail to install this.

Impressive and well done! That is great commitment from you and I appreciate your response! Thank you very much for your reply and shall do : )

 

[ms spock]

I would not commit to 30 plus EMDR sessions until you do one session and see how you go.

The safe place that @MrMoonlight outlines is crucial. Your therapist needs to establish a 'safe place' before you begin. As he says this will give you a mental refuge to return to after EMDR. It would be a red flag if a therapist failed to do this.

I signed up from some somatic therapy and in the first couple of sessions I fell apart. I didn't have a connection to my self. So I couldn't do it. I wasn't in my body enough. I was so much more dissociated than I knew.

I am pretty fragmented, dissociative and I have a disorganised attachment. So EMDR is not for me.

I do know someone has done this training and who does EMDR most days and it works well for them. It keeps them going in highly demanding situations.

That's a tremendous amount of effort and commitment you are about to engage in. I wish you all the best @anonymous12345. Kudos for willing to do this work.