Can EMDR Make Things Worse? Risks & Safety Explained
When attorneys ask whether EMDR can help a traumatized client, they usually mean symptom relief. In immigration work, that isn't the only question that matters. The harder question is whether a trauma treatment can temporarily destabilize a client, alter how they describe events, or create avoidable problems in a case where credibility and consistency are […]
Complex PTSD EMDR: Guide to Adapted Protocols
Most advice about complex PTSD EMDR is too neat for the cases immigration attorneys encounter. It treats EMDR as if the therapist identifies one bad event, runs a standard protocol, and the client quickly becomes calmer, more consistent, and easier to present in a declaration or hearing. That picture is incomplete, and in some cases […]
Benefits of EMDR Therapy for Trauma & Immigration Cases
After just six 50-minute EMDR sessions, 100% of single-trauma sufferers and 77% of people with multiple traumas no longer met diagnostic criteria for PTSD, according to a Kaiser Permanente finding summarized here. For immigration attorneys, that number should change how you think about mental health evidence. EMDR is more than a wellness intervention. In the […]