Trauma Therapy: Why you may need EMDR

The PedsDocTalk Podcast: Child Health, Development & Parenting—From a Pediatrician Mom

Dr. Mona Amin

Kids & Family, Parenting, Medicine, Health & Fitness

4.9 • 1.5K Ratings

🗓️ 15 May 2024

⏱️ 60 minutes

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May is Mental Health Awareness Month, and in honor of my advocacy for more open conversation surrounding Mental health, I will be featuring episodes on ways to take care of our mental health so we can better care for ourselves and our children. Therapy is highly beneficial, and various modalities are used. EMDR (Eye movement desensitization and reprocessing) is an evidence-based approach that has been shown to help in processing traumatic events and changing negative patterns and helping people with mental health conditions like anxiety, depression, and OCD. I personally started EMDR earlier this year, and in honor of Maternal Mental Health Month, I invited Dr. Cassidy Freitas, who is a licensed marriage and family therapist who also does EMDR. We discuss: What EMDR is and the steps of EMDR Who would be a good candidate Examples of how EMDR helped me and Dr. Cassidy For more resources on EMDR: EMDR Institute, Psychologytoday.com, and EMDRIA. You can connect with Dr. Cassidy on Instagram @drcassidy, and for more resources, check out Dr. Cassidy's website. If you are dealing with postpartum mental health concerns and need help, visit Postpartum Support International Our podcasts are also now on YouTube. If you prefer a video podcast with closed captioning, check us out there and ⁠subscribe to PedsDocTalk⁠. Get trusted pediatric advice, relatable parenting insights, and evidence-based tips delivered straight to your inbox—join thousands of parents who rely on the PDT newsletter to stay informed, supported, and confident. ⁠⁠⁠Join the newsletter⁠⁠⁠! And don’t forget to follow ⁠⁠⁠@pedsdoctalkpodcast⁠⁠⁠ on Instagram—our new space just for parents looking for real talk and real support. We love the sponsors that make this show possible! You can always find all the special deals and codes for all our current sponsors on the ⁠PedsDocTalk Podcast Sponsorships⁠ page of the website. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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1:00.3	The body knows how to heal. It's geared towards healing. So when we break an arm, basically the doctor is like, we're going to put this cast on it so you just don't move it so the body can do what it needs to do.
1:15.4	But when it comes to trauma, when it comes to these experiences,
1:21.2	we keep having more experiences.
1:23.3	Like we can't put the brain in a cast
1:25.9	and be like, wait, just hold still for a second.
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1:33.0	Or the brain can get overwhelmed.
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