Category Archives: EMDR Articles

by Dana Elken Terrell, LCSW, EAC These are outtakes from Chapter 2 of “When I Do Relationships SO RIGHT How Do They Go SO WRONG” that were considered too detailed Continue Reading →

Friday Prep Night                                   See Location* Friday evening gives you an introduction to Bowen Continue Reading →

Day 2:  For Me, My Relationships and Generations to Come Healing 2 Types of Past Stressful Relationship Patterns: The morning offers you comprehensive healing of the triangle pattern. This means Continue Reading →

Day 1:  Saturday Healing 4 Types of Past Stressful Relationship Patterns: The morning offers you comprehensive healing of the conflict pattern.  Conflict includes criticism, blame, fighting. It often refers to our Continue Reading →

FREE Introduction and Introspection Evening in San Diego Friday, January 27, 2017 3537 Boundary Street, San Diego, CA  92104 7:00 PM to 8:15 PM Healing Relationship Wounds Workshop New Possibilities Continue Reading →

Integrated Bowen and EMDR (iBE) Therapy is a individual and/or group protocol developed and researched by Dana Terrell, LCSW, EAC. Since 1997 Dana Terrell, LCSW, EAC brought her decades of Continue Reading →

Suicide by vets, once they return back home from combat, or even years later, is a very disturbing reality most of us are aware of.  The current rate of suicide Continue Reading →

Geothermal stress is introduced in my article, “Cancer Prevention Tips – Preventing the Trauma of Cancer” To see an introduction, please scan to the dowsing section of the article I have Continue Reading →

International CA specialist: Gar Hildenbrand is an epidemiologist, methodologist, and Advocate for better cancer treatment.He practices San Diego, CA and Tijuana, Mexico. Gar’s email: ghildenbrand@earthlink.net Gar Hildenbrand is fascinated with Continue Reading →

Learning from Cancer Specialists, Cancer Patients and Cancer Survivors for Improved Treatment Options     NOTE: Please read my report on 2015 research demonstrating that the EMDR Group Treatment Protocol can Continue Reading →

Preventing Cancer Trauma by Learning from Cancer Specialists, Cancer Patients and Cancer Survivors for Improved Treatment Options  By Dana Terrell Preventing cancer trauma is easier than treating cancer and PTSD. Cancer Continue Reading →

Visualization to heal cancer is a form of prayer or affirmation.  It is a fun form because it engages your own creativity.   Visualization has been proven to help heal cancer. Continue Reading →

Encouraging Domestic Violence Victims to Find Safety and Healing AND Become Domestic Violence Survivors NOTE:  To see Brooke’s video, please link here A beautiful young woman named Brooke met a charismatic, Continue Reading →

EMDR Therapy is a comprehensive therapy approach, useful for overcoming stressful experiences of all kinds — even deeply embedded memories or traumas, which can be the basis of your depression, Continue Reading →

  To print the two page brochure, print one page first and the second page on the reverse side. BowenCover BowenSummary.inside This summary is my attempt to share 35 years Continue Reading →

by Dana Terrell, LCSW, EAC (click on link to find Dana’s Profile Page) NOTE:  Thank you to Sandra Paulsen, PhD and Katie O’Shea, MFT for their outstanding EMDR Therapy Early Trauma Continue Reading →

Special Needs Children Have Parents with Needs, too by Nancy Deutsch, LCSW   Special Needs Children may have been born premature, or diagnosed with a medical condition or disability. Sometimes it is Continue Reading →

Divorce often results from hurt, pain, neglect or ignoring the life of your relationship.All of these can be overcome individually and as a couple.  All that is required is a Continue Reading →

by Dana Terrell, MSW, LCSW EMDRIA-Approved Consultant [youtube]lF93HRPMJVQ[/youtube] To view the 6 minute video I made for your ease in learning about EMDR, please click on this link:   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lF93HRPMJVQ

  author:  Robbie Adler-Tapia, Ph.D. I. There are more than 30 Randomized Clinical Trials on EMDR including: van der Kolk, B., Spinazzola, J. Blaustein, M., Hopper, J. Hopper, E., Korn, D., Continue Reading →

Professional Office Rental Available in San Diego’s East County Newly designed and furnished outstanding office spaces available for licensed mental health professionals near the heart of El Cajon at 1234 Continue Reading →

I am Proving Abuse and Neglect Can be Overcome by N.G., Ocean Beach Business Woman I want to share the amazing transformation I’ve experienced since working with my EMDR Therapist Continue Reading →

by Dana Terrell, LCSW, EAC I’ve been a fan and a member of EMDRIA ever since being encouraged to join during my first weekend of EMDR training, back in 1997.  Continue Reading →

EMDR Therapy Calms an Angry Preschooler by Bonnie Hendrickson, LMHC Note:  This story was shared at an EMDRIA Conference in 2012. Afterwards, many EMDR therapists requested that I write the story Continue Reading →

Part 2 – of a series on Recognizing, Living with and Resolving Trauma By Jeffrey Smith, LMFT, AC Thinking of suicide leads to many thoughts that are disturbing, scary and risky. It Continue Reading →

The Big Question about the Boston Marathon Bombing:  Why? by Dana Terrell, LCSW, EAC There is nothing that justifies violent bombing and killing, other than self-defense of a nation, group Continue Reading →

Preventing PTSD, or How to Make a Quicker Recovery from PTSD — And the Health Problems That Can Often Accompany Stress by Dana Terrell, LCSW, EAC If you have experienced Continue Reading →

by Dana Terrell, LCSW, EAC A recent share by an EMDR client named Amy who struggled with panic has inspired this article.  She gave permission to share her story: I Continue Reading →

by Dana Terrell, LCSW, EAC GAD or General Anxiety Disorder can result in a lifetime of worry.  Is uncertainty often intolerable for you, one of your friends or loved ones?  Seem Continue Reading →

by Dana Terrell, LCSW, EAC   The FSAP (Feeling State Addictions Protocol developed and researched by Robert Miller, PhD) for Substance and Behavioral addictions is transforming my work with clients.  Continue Reading →

Feelings State Examples for FSAP by Dana Terrell, LCSW, EAC These samples of the unique feeling states people experienced during some of their most exciting or intense experiences with their Continue Reading →

After EMDR Therapy in Temecula for Sexual Assault and Panic …I’m better at being MYSELF” Author:  BT, reprinted with her permission   “I’d thought that I had everything under control, “I’d Continue Reading →

by Dana Terrell, LCSW, EAC   This is a quote of a friend of mine — not an EMDR therapist. So, Let us do a little to help EMDR each Continue Reading →

Thank you to Katy Murray, LICSW, BCD for sharing the information and resources below: The EMDR Research Foundation has posted Translating Research Into Practice Links for a number of articles Continue Reading →

Veterans and Asbestos Exposure A Public Service Announcement Author:  Douglas Karr   Asbestos, a material used for decades in construction materials for buildings and homes, and for fireproofing items, causes Continue Reading →

Author:  Susie Morgan, MA, MA, LMFT I find remarkable efficacy in treating the compulsive behaviors that are often integral to Eating Disorders through a modified EMDR method called the Feeling Continue Reading →

By Dana Terrell, LCSW, EAC All Health Care Providers have a lot of responsibility on their shoulders Physicians, Dentists, Surgeons, RNs, Acupuncturists, Chiropractors  —  all Health Care Providers have a Continue Reading →

EMDR Works Better than Talk Therapy We have Counselors in Bay Area, Orange County, Sacramento, San Diego, Seattle and Washington State who can surely talk, but they can do more Continue Reading →

by Dana Terrell, LCSW, EAC Doctors Noticed that Trauma and Chronic Health Problems seemed to go Together Two San Diego physicians at Kaiser Permanente noticed their patients with childhood stress Continue Reading →

EMDR Performance Enhancement Help — for an Educator-Therapist By Anonymous A Primary Care Physician Encourages an EMDR Therapist-Educator I had an interesting experience once while trying to educate my primary Continue Reading →

Filmmaker Releases Documentary on EMDR Filmmaker Michael Burns has released his latest documentary, EMDR, a movie that explores one of the top treatments for psychological trauma: Eye Movement Desensitization and Continue Reading →

Taking your Life Back from Chronic Pain By Michelle Gottlieb, PsyD, LMFT (link to profile) Chronic pain.If you have been lucky enough to never experience this, you have no idea Continue Reading →

Dana Terrell, LCSW, EAC interviewing Karen Wager-Smith, PhD Karen Wager-Smith, PhD and Athina Markou, PhD of UCSD conducted a thorough review of the literature. It was published in Neuroscience and Continue Reading →

A Course for Physicians, Complementary Health Care Providers and Supporters, and Therapists Did you know that: People can have higher PTSD scores from non-life-threatening stressors?  (British Journal of Psychiatry, 2005) Continue Reading →

Expecting the Best for Your Life with Strategic Counseling by Jeffrey Smith, LMFT , AC The Strategic Counseling Model is built from the ground up on a five-tiered model for Continue Reading →

by Jeffrey Smith, LMFT , AC Human beings identify themselves with learned self beliefs that are a product of our genetic makeup and the collection of our life experiences.We call Continue Reading →

FEATURED THERAPIST:SUSAN GOODELL, LMFT, AC EMDR transforms: Let’s start earlier. What inspired you to become a therapist, period? SG: I was a teacher originally and became very interested in how Continue Reading →

by Sara Gilman, LMFT   In the past 25 years as a Marriage & Family Therapist, I have obtained continuing education in a variety of therapeutic modalities. I have used Continue Reading →

Do you have some unresolved issues? Could you benefit from EMDR? To find out, take this brief self test.1.Think of something that bothers you. 2. What negative feelings are you Continue Reading →

EMDR Therapy is so well validated for the treatment of PTSD, that the World Health Organization recommends only two treatments for PTSD and EMDR is one of them.While research has Continue Reading →

EMDR Therapy was developed in 1987 by Francine Shapiro, Ph.D. in Palo Alto, California.She published the first research on EMDR in 1989.  Since then it has been research-validated more than Continue Reading →

Frequently Asked Questions about the comprehensive therapy approach:  EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing) Actually, I DO have some challenges.But how does EMDR differ from “talk” therapy? I’ve tried it Continue Reading →

GENERAL EMDR INFORMATION How effective is EMDR therapy? What disorders benefit from the EMDR approach? EMDR and Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) EMDR Video including brain researcher Dr.Daniel Amen and Continue Reading →