Emdr therapy to overcome trauma, ‘also used by Prince Harry’

Prince Harry, Duke of Sussex, “revealed that he successfully used Emdr therapy to process his trauma” and “decided to take the Emdr path because he never managed to manage his emotions when he lived in London, a city in to whom he explained that he had always felt worried and always tense and nervous for personal reasons linked above all to the tragic death of his mother Diana “. To underline this is the Emdr Association, chaired by Isabel Fernandez, in a note. The basic principle of the EMDR method, which stands for ‘Eye movement desensitization and reprocessing’, “is that the mind can heal from trauma by using external stimuli to help the brain process the traumatic experience and facilitate healing. This particular method, approved by years since the World Health Organization, it was born as a treatment for post-traumatic stress disorder, but it is also used for other disorders such as anxiety and depression “, recalls the association. In Italy, the Emdr Association has been dealing with this kind of trauma for the people who have been victims for over 20 years, dealing with psychological trauma, but also relational traumas both within the family and outside. “The publications and scientific researches on its effectiveness, as well as the experiences of the therapists who apply this method, are outlining the increasingly important role of the EMDR in the field of trauma psychotherapy and traumatic relationships in the family”, notes the association. . Since 2010, Emdr therapy has been recognized as a psychotherapeutic approach, the note continues. In 2011, the United States Administration of Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services (Samhsa) recognized Emdr psychotherapy as one of the most empirically validated (evidence-based) and effective treatments in the treatment of anxiety, depression and Ptsd (post-traumatic stress disorder). Since 2013 she has been included in WHO recommendations as psychotherapy of choice for the treatment of PTSD in children, adolescents and adults, and for all disorders related to stressful situations.Isabel Fernandez, psychologist and psychotherapist, director of the Psychotraumatology Research Center of Milan, after having published numerous essays, articles and books on trauma, is president of the Italian and European Association of Emdr and has to his credit over 20 thousand psychotherapists trained on the subject of trauma.