In the News
HealthTech article “The Greatest You’ll Ever Be Is Asking For Help, Simone Biles Says” and Healthcare IT News article “Simone Biles At HIMSS25 Offers Encouragement For Mental Health and Self Care” discuss Simone Biles’ keynote address at HIMSS25, where she advocated for mental health and shared that EMDR therapy helped her. “Biles leaned heavily into Sports psychology, working intensely to prioritize her well-being and get back on track using techniques such as eye movement desensitization and reprocessing, or EMDR.”
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EMDR therapy changed this firefighter’s life for the positive in Aaron Zamzow’s personal story of treating his PTSD in EMS1 article “My Life-Changing Experience With EMDR Therapy to Manage PTSD.”
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Jim James, musician and songwriter in My Morning Jacket opens up about his journey with depression in KCRW‘s “Jim James on ceding creative control, healing depression via therapy” and credits EMDR and parts work as helpful for him. About EMDR, he says, “Oh my god. I mean, it’s just been so helpful…. For me, the way it felt… it turns your trauma from a full-color full-sound HD movie that plays when you dno’t want it to in to a black-and-white photograph that you store in the right place in your mind, in your drawer of memories with all your other memories. So it’s not like you don’t remember that the trauma happened to you, but it no longer has such power over your life.”
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EMDRIA member Desyree Dixon, LCSW, EdD discusses the impact of being trained in EMDR therapy: “It’s changed my practice” in Baltimore Magazine article “These Innovative Mental Health Treatments Offer Alternatives to Conventional Therapy.”
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EMDR therapy is added as an option to Memorial Medical Clinic Carthage “to enhance the quality of care offered to patients by processing traumatic experiences.” More in Daily Gate City article “Behavioral Health Services at Memorial Medical Clinic Offers Advanced Therapy.”
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Food & Wine article “Can’t Stand the Sound of SLurping? There’s A Name For That” discusses misophonia with EMDRIA member Carly Costello who identifies both as a person with misophonia and as an EMDR Certified Therapist.
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EMDRIA member Bonnie Rumilly, LCSW speaks on trauma and EMDR therapy in her EMS Improve Podcast interview with host Eric Chase affiliated with the Journal of Emergency Medical Services (JEMS): “Bonnie Rumilly’s Journey Through Trauma and Resilience.”
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The butterfly hug gets a shoutout in Sunset article “How to Deal With Flying Anxiety” as “commonly associated with EMDR therapy, and is a great tool for the jitters.”
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Psychiatrist.com article “Combined PTSD Treatments Could Benefit Military Populations The Most” describes the importance of combining medication with trauma-focused therapies such as EMDR, “as the combination can better address the full spectrum of PTSD symptoms.”
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EMDR therapy is mentioned in SELF article “5 Reasons Therapy ‘Didn’t Work’ For You” as a type of therapy to try if “chatting alone isn’t helping you work through your childhood wounds.”
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EMDRIA member Cindy Shrigley received the Local Distinguished Social Worker Award by the Ontario Association of Social Workers. The Journal article “Sarnia Social Worker Recognized For Innovation and Contributions to Her Field” discusses how Cindy was a pioneer bringing trauma-based modalities such as EMDR therapy to the area.
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Psychology Today article “‘Goodgirling’: A Shame and Trauma-Based Ritual That Harms” mentions EMDR as evidence-based for PTSD and “a specialized psychotherapy that relies on specialized techniques couples with courageously facing the origins of self-limiting beliefs.”
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EMDRIA member Morgan Levine LCSW discusses EMDR therapy in the context of attachment wounds in Medium article “Healing Attachment Wounds: How EMDR and Parts Work Can Help.”
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EMDR therapy is a gamechanger for Paul Moomjean as he shares in his personal story of integrating art and therapy in VCReporter article “Purple is the New Party: Art Imitating Therapy and Therapy Imitating Art.”
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Yonkers Times article “A Revolutionary Approach to Thealing: Understanding EMDR Therapy” discusses EMDR therapy’s structure, research, mechanisms, and the potential to help as a therapy choice for people facing trauma-based beliefs.
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Date
March 28, 2025
