Is EMDR Therapy reprocessing the best practice for CPTSD memories?

A common dilemma I encounter in my practice and a consulting question I receive is, can we integrate talk therapy into EMDR Therapy?

A common value across all therapy approaches is, meeting the client where they are. This is true whether we are practicing for instance psychodynamic therapy or EMDR therapy. This is an important therapy value that needs to guide our treatment plan.

At its core intersectionality offers clarity of the realities of our societies and names the tools of oppression whether it be respectability politics, pathologizing poverty, or toxic abusive family interactions to name a few that are required to change. In therapy, the knowing of what is wrong, is the seed of change. Intersectionality empowers people in naming the wrongs and paving a new path of healing, joy and liberation.

Cognitive Interweaves (CI) create a shift in perspective, allowing for spontaneous AIP and allows clients to respond SPONTANEOUSLY without thinking through an answer.

Here are a few helpful questions, points that can help you as the therapist decide what the best approach might be