Can you do EMDR over Zoom?

[GrumpyCat]

Can you do EMDR over Zoom? That seems impossible to me. I am intensely uncomfortable with Zoom meetings, I can't imagine doing therapy over it.

 

[somerandomguy]

Yep, I only do EMDR over Zoom (actually a different Zoom-like program). I find that for me it works just as well as EMDR in person. I'm pretty comfortable with using Zoom in general, though.

 

[Eagle3]

Ugh. I couldn't even. I need the in-person feedback to make therapy work. I've done a LOT of phone/Zoom therapy the last couple of years, and I HATE IT! Much prefer in person! I'm sure a good therapist can make EMDR work over Zoom, but ugh....I couldn't do it.

 

[arfie]

**i** couldn't. i was embroiled in a family court dispute, complete with cps social worker checks, when corona crowned. doing those meetings by teleconference was bad enough. i don't know which is worse, the maskites or the talking heads.

if i can't read your lips, you ain't talking to me. increase your social distance, please.

 

[osiris]

Most of my emdr has been over zoom.
We switched to tapping instead of eye movement and it has been good for me.
My biggest issue was seeing myself on screen so I used a post it note to block that out.

Maybe try it out? If it works, great, if not, at least you know?

 

[Paula]

Can you do EMDR over Zoom? That seems impossible to me. I am intensely uncomfortable with Zoom meetings, I can't imagine doing therapy over it.

Yes,but for me as a client I wouldn't be comfortable

 

[Freddyt]

The big thing for me is a simple thing. We with PTSD are known for hiding our symptoms.

How else could you go 45 years without being diagnosed?

We also get good at hiding everything else about PTSD. I know for me - something I learned playing poker worked for my therapist. Your feet never lie.... That and the rest of my body language is important and that's missing with Zoom. So is my ability to see my T's body language and read that. Since the big thinky part of my brain that understands complex emotions doesn't work it leaves me feeling very vulnerable. Since we talked about the feet thing my T gives me no end of grief with the "what are your feet doing?" thing. But that's a huge thing, not being able to hide how I feel and what stresses me from my T.

I am sure I "could" do therapy via zoom or whatever, it just wouldn't be the preferred method by a very large margin.

I am intensely uncomfortable with Zoom meetings,

Me too. Talked with my T about that and it likely has to do with how I gain information about other people. Not seeing their body and posture and all that makes me uncomfortable because that's how I have learned to understand how people feel and react to me.....