EMDR is great if you want targeted and highly structured somatic work. If you’re looking for something that gets to those embodied roots without having to tell those same painful stories over (or if you don’t quite know where the root comes from), other forms of somatic work (somatic experiencing, integrative somatics, generative somatics..) can be really empowering.

It was the only effective therapy that I’ve experienced. Everyone tells me to go to therapy, but I end up being my therapist’s therapist in talk/CBT, and I found it did not help with trauma at all. EMDR was an intense brain reset; it did give me fatigue, but it helped so much. I went from jumping out of my skin and screaming at perceived threats (in public) to feeling calm and able to function (even if I was surprised). I have however been kinda jumpy again recently and need another session.