Trauma treatment comes in multiple forms. Traditional talk therapy is aimed at guiding the client to a conscious realization of previously subconscious attitudes and behavioral patterns that arise from a lived experience. It is believed that moving from the subconscious to the conscious, the client will correct the attitude and change the behavior, which will then lead to an improved emotional state. However, there is another mode of therapy called Eye-Moment, Desensitization, and Reprocessing (EMDR) which aims to access the individuals “adaptive information processing network”* to ultimately decrease the sympathetic nervous system response and the distressing emotions that come with traumatic reactions.

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