EMDR Therapy for Couples and Marriage Issues

How Does EMDR help my relationship?

EMDR stands for Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing, this therapy will substantially help your relationship with your partner by addressing the underlying emotional triggers and other issues that you experience when relating to, interacting with, and thinking about your partner.  

Marriage relationships are emotional!  Relationships by their very nature are founded on feelings and emotions this is why EMDR will help you and your relationship with your partner, family and friends.  

The emotional brain responds in about ½ of a millisecond where the cognitive part of the brain, pre-frontal cortex, responds in about 2 seconds.  This means that no one person is purely unbiased or totally logical.  The emotional brain response is always first and controls the outcome of your rational thinking.  When there is too much emotion then the blood flow to the pre-frontal cortex is inhibited resulting in impaired rational thinking.  EMDR will change your emotional responses that are better suited to having a loving, peaceful relationship.

EMDR can help your marriage by:

• Changing your emotional responses to more adaptive and constructive ones.
• Helping to eliminate negative attitudes.
• Empowering your passion to love one another more deeply.
• Helping to reconnect with your partner in new ways.
• Helping you to feel safe and secure.
• Help you to reestablish an emotional connection.
• Improving communication.
• Helping each person to better give and receive love.
• Increasing your bond and creating a more secure attachment.

More about EMDR

EMDR  therapy has been gaining credibility over the past 30 years within the health community showing clinical evidences, brain imaging before and after treatment, as well as 30 gold standard studies documenting the effectiveness of EMDR in resolving underlying emotional issues. 

EMDR  is an 8 phase process but it is known for the rapid eye movement part of therapy.  Through the guidance of the clinician EMDR is administered which helps to significantly reduce the emotional upset, emotional triggers, lack of passion, hurt, hatred, unforgiveness and the feeling of growing apart.  Benefits of Couples Therapy using EMDR is significant.

 

Here are some other therapies that can help you in your relationship:

• EFT or Emotional Freedom Techniques
• Fraser’s Dissociative Table Technique
• Heart Coherence breathing
• Dream Interpretation
• Sensorimotor PsychotherapyLife Coaching

Certified EMDR Therapist

James Miklos, MCC, R.P. is a Certified EMDR Therapist and has been using EMDR with clients since 2006.  He has found that EMDR is the most effective and versatile therapy that is currently available.  EMDR is an integrative therapy which simply means it allows other elements of other therapies to work in conjunction with EMDR.  In the development of the EMDR technique consideration was given that each person should be treated as an individual.  James Miklos, MCC, R.P. has used EMDR within his practice to help people resolve their issues more effectively.

More on EMDR

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Introduction to EMDR

What is EMDR Therapy?

How does EMDR work in the Brain?

Does EMDR cure PTSD?

What does EMDR look like?