Kathleen Wheeler, Ph.D., is a past president of the EMDR International Association and a psychiatric nurse practitioner. She is also the author of Psychotherapy for the Advanced Practice Psychiatric ...

Although I work with couples using emotionally focused therapy, and of course mindfulness, I am primarily an EMDR therapist. EMDR stands for Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing. It began as ...

Eye movement desensitization and reprocessing (EMDR) sounds complicated, but the treatment itself is straightforward.

EMDR therapy is not new, but every few years it resurfaces as a way to process trauma. For example, in Prince Harry’s docuseries with Oprah Winfrey, The Me You Can't See (which came out in 2021), ...