EMDR Therapy: The Complete Guide to Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing
January 21, 2026
Your therapist just recommended EMDR therapy. Now you’re Googling “what is EMDR” and finding confusing information about eye movements, bilateral stimulation, and reprocessing traumatic memories. Does moving your eyes back and forth while thinking about trauma actually work? Or is EMDR just pseudoscience dressed up as therapy? EMDR sounds strange. We get it. Eye movements treating PTSD? It seems too simple, too weird, too good to be true. Here’s what the evidence shows: The World