1089-Exciting Treatments for PTSD_ New Ways to Heal your Trauma

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🗓️ 9 January 2026

⏱️ 58 minutes

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00:00 Introduction & Overview of Emerging PTSD Treatments 00:31 EMDR: Gold Standard Trauma Processing 01:53 Who Benefits Most from EMDR 02:31 Cognitive Behavioral Therapies & CPT 03:23 CPT Techniques: Reframing Trauma 04:43 Benefits of CPT for PTSD Symptoms 05:17 Prolonged Exposure Therapy & VR Integration 06:16 Processing Memories with Wise Mind 07:27 Desensitization & Reducing Avoidance 09:05 Handling Triggers & Building Empowerment 10:38 Medications: SSRIs & Prazosin 11:57 Evaluating Medication vs Holistic Approaches 13:00 Psychedelics for PTSD: MDMA, Psilocybin, LSD 14:43 Mechanisms & Evidence for Psychedelic Therapy 17:01 Psilocybin: Neurogenesis and Mindfulness 18:10 Acceptance & Commitment Therapy with Psychedelics 19:33 LSD-Assisted Psychotherapy & Core Belief Change 21:21 Ego Dissolution & Brain Networks 22:12 Outcomes & Complex PTSD Treatment 23:39 Other Psychedelics & Their Status 24:39 Trauma Sensitive Yoga: Benefits & Caveats 25:48 Yoga for Mindfulness and Body Awareness 27:09 The Role of the Gut Microbiome in PTSD 28:36 Microbiome, Stress Response & Neuroinflammation 30:45 Balancing Gut Health to Aid Healing 31:48 Vagus Nerve Stimulation: Resetting the Stress System 33:04 Biofeedback & Strengthening Vagal Tone 35:04 Empowerment via Vagus Nerve Stimulation 37:36 Non-Invasive Vagal Stimulation Methods 39:21 Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation (TMS) for PTSD 41:44 Sleep, Hyperarousal & PTSD 43:37 Addressing Sleep Apnea and PTSD Outcomes 45:01 Targeting Sleep for Better Recovery 46:07 Oxytocin Nasal Spray for Social Connection 47:01 Oxytocin for Reducing Fear and Withdrawal 48:43 Summary: Holistic Treatment Goals for PTSD 51:01 Physical, Interpersonal, and Emotional Tools 53:39 Cognitive and Environmental Strategies 55:25 Wrap Up: Empowerment and System Rebalancing 56:16 Q&A: Audience Questions & ECT Comparison 57:14 Closing Remarks Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hey there, everybody. Welcome to this presentation on emerging treatments for PTSD 2025. I'm your host,
0:11.8	Dr. Donnelly Snipe. Today, we're going to explore emerging treatments, including EMDR, CBT, exposure
0:20.1	therapy, medications, psychedelics, the gut microbiome,
0:24.9	the vagus nerve, transcranial magnetic stimulation, sleep improvement, and oxytocin nasal spray.
0:34.4	We'll start with EMDR. And when I say cutting edge or emerging treatments, these are things that
0:40.9	haven't been around for 20 years. EMDR is relatively new. Now, EMDR is sort of your gold standard
0:48.7	right now, and it is effective for a lot of people, not everybody, but for a lot of people. EMDR is a structured
0:56.1	psychotherapy that encourages people to process traumatic memories while simultaneously engaging in
1:02.7	bilateral stimulation through guided eye movements or sometimes tapping or auditory sounds.
1:10.8	EMDR addresses symptoms such as intrusive thoughts, flashbacks, and heightened arousal
1:15.5	by facilitating the reprocessing of that traumatic information.
1:19.9	They believe that when we engage that bilateral stimulation, it puts our brain into a state
1:26.7	very similar to REM sleep, where it's able to file some of that
1:33.5	stuff and to reprocess some of that stuff more effectively.
1:37.9	This promotes adaptive resolution, reducing stress associated with the trauma.
1:43.8	I do have a video that goes much more into detail on how EMDR is done, but EMDR is one of those
1:52.1	treatments that is really effective for a lot of people, especially people who have a singular
2:00.2	acute trauma or a set of very distinct traumas.
2:05.6	People who have CPDSD where the trauma was pretty much just every day, all day,
2:12.2	may still benefit from it for sure.
2:16.4	However, it may not be as dramatic of a resolution as somebody who has
2:23.6	a very distinct episode. Cognitive behavioral therapies, now they have been around since sort of the
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