Sadielady3
MyPTSD Pro
I have PTSD (and I actually think it should be C-PTSD) and have been through a great deal of childhood trauma. My therapist and I started doing EMDR in January but after 3 sessions of EMDR we stopped because life got a lot more intense. He said that when he read the room, it wasn't the right time to do it and that he's waiting until things in my life are calmer again to resume. He also stated that he thinks I did really well with EMDR and that we were taking things slow and starting with more medium type traumas and he knows that there is definitely more work to be done with EMDR.
Here's the problem: I have an HMO for my insurance. My therapist works for the HMO and, although I do feel like he's a great therapist, the HMO cranks patients through the great machine. My T must have over 100 patients. It's very competitive to get appointments. When doing EMDR, we do every other week because that's the most he can justify seeing me and I'm only allowed so much EMDR due to their policies.
I feel like it was helping me and I genuinely want to get better. If I could afford to pay for a private therapist I could see every week, I would do it in a heartbeat. But I thought that maybe I could afford to do some EMDR with a private therapist during the summer. I'm a teacher, so I have the summer off and have the time to really work on things without having to worry about balancing my stressful demanding job with trauma processing. I was poking around the internet and found a trauma counseling center that offers an intensive EMDR program where you do a lot of work in a short period of time. I can afford the price and I can definitely find the time.
So I'm wondering if anyone else has done EMDR this way or if anyone has any advice about how to proceed in general. I'm not dead set on this course of action but I do want to find a way to move forward and deal with my trauma. Any advice at all is welcome and appreciated.
Here's the problem: I have an HMO for my insurance. My therapist works for the HMO and, although I do feel like he's a great therapist, the HMO cranks patients through the great machine. My T must have over 100 patients. It's very competitive to get appointments. When doing EMDR, we do every other week because that's the most he can justify seeing me and I'm only allowed so much EMDR due to their policies.
I feel like it was helping me and I genuinely want to get better. If I could afford to pay for a private therapist I could see every week, I would do it in a heartbeat. But I thought that maybe I could afford to do some EMDR with a private therapist during the summer. I'm a teacher, so I have the summer off and have the time to really work on things without having to worry about balancing my stressful demanding job with trauma processing. I was poking around the internet and found a trauma counseling center that offers an intensive EMDR program where you do a lot of work in a short period of time. I can afford the price and I can definitely find the time.
So I'm wondering if anyone else has done EMDR this way or if anyone has any advice about how to proceed in general. I'm not dead set on this course of action but I do want to find a way to move forward and deal with my trauma. Any advice at all is welcome and appreciated.