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Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing

Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing
Phone: 315 720-7379
Name: Tracey Musarra Marchese
Email: tcmarche@syr.edu

EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing) helps people resolve traumatic memories and current emotional difficulties. EMDR can be used to facilitate therapy when a patient is unable to free him or her self from painful memories, is stuck in the progress of the treatment, is having intrusive thoughts or images, recurrent nightmares, and so on.

It is an integrative psychotherapy approach that permits desensitization and reprocessing of traumatic memories and present disturbing experiences so there is little or no distress and with positive, instead of negative, beliefs about the self. This can sometimes occur rapidly and can have long-lasting effects.

EMDR and PTSD

Research results show the effectiveness of this method particularly with PTSD symptoms. The recent American Psychiatric Association Practice Guidelines for treatment of patients with Acute Stress Disorder and PTSD includes EMDR, as well as CBT, as effective treatment. In fact, the UK's National Institute for Clinical Excellence now requires clinics that provide PTSD services to offer clients both trauma focused CBT and EMDR. The American Psychology Association has approved EMDR for treating civilian trauma.

Integrating EMDR

Seasoned clinicians find this highly focused psychotherapeutic method can be incorporated within the context of individual psychotherapy and into a range of therapeutic approaches including models of time-limited therapy. Recently trained clinicians, and mental health professionals near the conclusion of their training, experience ease in integrating the EMDR approach into their other learning.

Elective Seminar

This EMDR course conforms with established criteria and has been fully approved by the EMDR International Association.

About Tracey Marchese

Tracey Musarra Marchese, MSW, LCSW-R, Professor of Practice, Syracuse University, Falk College of Sport and Human Dynamics, School of Social Work & Clinical Professor, SUNY Upstate Medical University at Syracuse, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Medicine

  • EMDRIA Approved Instructor and Consultant in EMDR Therapy
  • CNY EMDRIA Regional Network Co-Coordinator
  • Clinical Social Worker
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