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Originally Posted by Dnester
How does she prepare for trauma processing? You mean the whole scale like how much does this memory bother you and what feelings come up?
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No, we are nowhere near that yet. She said targeting specific memories to process will come much, much later.
Before we can start processing trauma we have to develop awareness of the system, communication between alters, self regulation skills and more. The protocols for using EMDR with dissociative clients are different to normal EMDR and need a lot of groundwork first. At the moment we only use EMDR for installing gains in internal communication, developing compassion between alters, reorienting to the present and things like that.
A clinician should ONLY use EMDR with a dissociative client if they have had the extra training for it.