Research Supporting EMDR

Repeated studies show that by using EMDR therapy people can experience the benefits of therapy significantly quicker and with fewer sessions.

• More than 30 positive controlled outcome studies have been done on EMDR therapy. Some of the studies show that 84%-90% of single-trauma victims no longer have post-traumatic stress disorder after only three 90-minute sessions.
  
  
• Another study, funded by the HMO Kaiser Permanente, found that 100% of the single-trauma victims and 77% of multiple trauma victims no longer were diagnosed with PTSD after only six 50-minute sessions.
  
  
• In another study, 77% of combat veterans were free of PTSD in 12 sessions.
  
  
• Approximately 20 controlled studies have investigated the effects of EMDR and have consistently demonstrated that the use of EMDR effectively eliminates/decreases the symptoms of post-traumatic stress (PTSD), trauma, eating disorders, panic attacks, complicated grief, dissociative disorders, phobias, pain disorders, performance anxiety, addictions, sexual and or physical abuse and mood disorders for the majority of clients.
  
  
• 3 randomized studies have demonstrated that 84 to 100 percent of those suffering from a single trauma no longer had PTSD after an average of three 90-minute sessions.
  
  
• Over 20 randomized studies have demonstrated positive treatment effect Changes taking months or years with other therapies occurred within weeks with EMDR.