October is a poignant month, a time to acknowledge the pain and heartache that countless families have endured due to pregnancy, infant, and child loss. As we observe Pregnancy, Infant, and Child Loss Awareness Month, it's essential to recognize the profound impact of these losses and the vital role therapy plays in the healing process, particularly with therapists who have expertise in perinatal loss.
Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing therapy, or EMDR, is a set of standardized protocols that incorporate elements from many different treatment approaches. It has been researched extensively and proven effective for the treatment of trauma.
Trauma ingrains painful memories so deeply that they distort the way we think, act, and feel—essentially constricting how we live our lives. Instead of being relegated to the past like most memories, trauma makes the experience a permanent fixture in the mind, a recurring telling of events that repeatedly brings the sensations, sounds, and imagery back into the present.
