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With this in mind, we discussed the possibilities and promise of EMDR in the treatment of trauma. Due to the client's tendency to be analytic and anxious, we induced a light trance first, utilizing imagery that had proved successful in prior trances. Hypnosis, in that way, served as the safe room in which the tool of EMDR was utilized. In our first EMDR session, while the client was in a light trance, when asked what presenting issue or Regrow Hair Protocol Review memory she'd like to work on, she revealed for the first time that she had been molested as a young girl by an adolescent relative for approximately a year. She remembered it clearly and felt "disgust," "violated," and "responsible for it." As she related her thoughts, she experienced a number of tics in her shoulder and neck. When asked what she'd like to believe about herself now instead, she said, "I'm in control of my body." She only rated the believability (validity of cognition) of that statement at a 2 on a scale of 1 to 7 where 1 is completely false and 7 is completely true. She rated her "Subjective Unit of Disturbance" (SUDS) at a 7 on a scale of 1 to 10 (1 being no disturbance and 10 being highest disturbance) and located the disturbance in her right side and arm. We proceeded with the rest of the EMDR protocol using my fingers to initiate the saccades/bi-lateral eye movements.

During the process, which we repeated for about 30 minutes overall, she experienced pain in her arm, a little comfort, then anger, then confusion, religious angst ("please help"), need, disgust, fear, pain in the lower arm, uncomfortable, blank, worried, pain in elbow and hand, pain in leg, "afraid to move", and finally she said she felt tired as her SUDS level dropped to a 2. When we installed the positive cognition, which links the desired positive cognition with the original memory or incident, she moved from rating it at a 2 to rating it at a 5, indicating that she was already feeling more in control. After completing the first EMDR, she still experienced some somatic discomfort on her right side. Thus, we decided to repeat the process. The second and third EMDR sessions were conducted in the same way (using a light trance), but focused on two other incidents: In the second EMDR session, she revealed that a boyfriend had disclosed to her that he was gay. In the third session, she described how (being so deeply attached to him) she had gone with him to a club and watched as he picked up men.