EMDRNews Practice Desk
Consultation points, in under two minutes.
Short clips from the EMDRNews Live Desk, with notes and a question to bring to consultation. Each clip links to the full discussion.
Questions for consultation
The notes identify the question raised by the clip and the clinical context needed to consider it.
Sitting With Anger During EMDR
Anger can carry information. The task is not automatically to quiet it, but to stay regulated and curious about what it may be protecting or communicating.
Take to consultation: When does your own urgency to calm anger begin shaping the client’s process?
See the full Live context →When Clients Hold Opposing Beliefs
Conflicting beliefs can coexist. Rather than forcing agreement, notice each belief’s context, function, and relationship to readiness.
Take to consultation: What changes when contradiction is treated as clinically meaningful rather than something to resolve immediately?
See the full Live context →Imagery Rescripting for Stuck PTSD Moments
When work feels stuck, the question is not simply whether a technique exists. Formulation, timing, fit, and the purpose of the intervention remain central.
Take to consultation: What tells you the work needs a carefully chosen intervention rather than more time or a return to preparation?
See the full Live context →Can EMDR Be Used With Psychosis?
A useful answer cannot rest on diagnosis alone. Assessment, stability, collaboration, scope of competence, and individualized formulation all remain in view.
Take to consultation: Which case-specific factors are missing when the question is framed only as “Can EMDR be used?”
See the full Live context →Slicing Traumatic Memories for EMD Work
Narrowing a memory may support a more contained focus. The important question is whether that focus fits the client’s readiness and the treatment frame.
Take to consultation: Are you narrowing the target in service of thoughtful containment—or simply trying to make distress easier to manage?
See the full Live context →Using RDI to Restore Readiness
Readiness can shift. Returning to Resource Development and Installation may reflect careful reassessment—not failure or lost progress.
Take to consultation: What signals tell you to support capacity instead of continuing because processing has already begun?
See the full Live context →EMDR and Psychosis: What the Evidence Suggests
Evidence discussed here suggests clearer PTSD benefits than across-the-board change in psychotic symptoms. Findings for delusions, paranoia, negative symptoms, and hallucinations are not interchangeable.
Take to consultation: Are you separating PTSD outcomes from specific psychosis symptom domains when interpreting the evidence?
See the full July 29 Live context →Why “Why?” Can Keep Therapy Stuck
The search for why another person caused harm can become an unanswerable loop. Even a plausible explanation may not change what happened or what recovery requires.
Take to consultation: When does exploring “why” deepen formulation—and when might it reinforce rumination or postpone the work?
See the full July 29 Live context →Flash Is Not EMDR
Flash may be used alongside EMDR, but describing the approaches as interchangeable obscures meaningful differences in method and evidence.
Take to consultation: How are you naming the intervention accurately so clients and clinicians understand what is—and is not—being provided?
See the full July 29 Live context →Three Proposed Mechanisms of EMDR
Working-memory taxation, the orienting response, and REM-like processing are proposed explanatory models. None should be presented as a settled, singular account of how EMDR works.
Take to consultation: Are you distinguishing supported findings from broader mechanism hypotheses when explaining EMDR?
See the full July 29 Live context →Working With Veterans: Culture, Family, and Return
Military service adds cultural, family, deployment, and reintegration contexts to each veteran’s individual history. Those contexts matter without becoming diagnoses themselves.
Take to consultation: Which military, family, or reintegration context may be missing from the current case formulation?
See the full RED Friday Live context →Veterans in Phase Two: A Positive Event Timeline
A positive-event timeline may help bring adaptive experiences and qualities back into view when trauma, crisis, or current stress has made them difficult to access.
Take to consultation: Which adaptive experiences are meaningful to this client, rather than assumed from military service?
See the full RED Friday Live context →The clips are the doorway, not the whole room.
Use the linked full Live Desk replays for the surrounding conversation, transitions, limits, and clinical nuance that short-form video cannot carry by itself.
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