Some T's have techniques that they use like a hammer, and they hammer everything. EMDR was just beginning around the first time I was in T, and the idea of it just didn't appeal to me. Nobody could really explain why it worked, even though the research since has demonstrated moderately successful results from it. Even so, that always means that there are some people (actually, a reasonable minority) for whom it won't work.

I didn't want to do some "technique" if no one knew or even had a reasonable guess as to why it might work, other than I'd experienced trauma and it supposedly fixed it. You don't have to continue doing it if you don't want to, by the way. It sounds weird to me, especially that conversation about you "as a predator."

I've interviewed T's who swear by their hammers such as writing and burning letters to your abuser, talking to an empty chair, beating on a pillow, pretending to be "reborn" through a fake birth canal, etc. I have stayed far, far away from these people. I'm not criticizing these techniques in the abstract, it's just that I just like to talk. To someone who understands trauma. That makes sense to me for how I heal.

Anne