A Therapist's Guide to EMDR: Tools and Techniques for Successful Treatment

by Laurel Parnell

4. Skip the SUDS, PC, and VoC if you don’t have the time or it interferes with the flow of the clients’ process. 5. Have clients who have difficulty finding and eliciting a memory stay in the memory as strongly as possible while the different target components are identified and stimulated. For many clients, coming in and out of a memory disrupts the flow and causes them to leave the experience to intellectualize. Therefore, get the image, NC, emotion, and body sensations while the client is in the memory experience. Having clients close their eyes as they bring up the memory can help them to stay with it without interruption. The whole setup can move smoothly and rapidly this way. Some clients provide you with all or most of the target components as they are describing the memory they want to work on. The setup process can flow smoothly without needless breaks if you don’t attempt to get the target information in a specific order. You can ask clients for the information that wasn’t provided in the narration they gave of the memory and then begin the BLS when you feel you have the memory network well stimulated. 6. Use the NC that best stimulates a strong emotional response. The NC is an irrational belief that was developed in the

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