I am just starting treatment for PTSD symptoms using this therapeutic technique. I could not do the eye movement, the Trauma Therapist is trained in level II EMDR, and so are my Group Therapists, they can utilize tools beyond the following of left to right eye movement with tools like light bars, and tapping. We are experimenting with a device, the name escapes me at the moment, but it uses tones, and you have padded devices in your hand which vibrate in sequence with the tones, and what I find helpfuk s you dont have to have your eyes open, you are processing by just listening to the tones abd feeling the fibrations in your hands. Its almost like a form of biofeedback or nuerostimulation tecniques combined. I could not do the tapping, because of the past physical abuse I had an abreaction where the Therapist became the abuser from my past and I felt his tapping me on the knees was feeling like a physical assault and well, I reacted to it as such..

I just have started this, so I cant give any comments on the effectiveness, but the fact that I dont have to keep my eyes open while I am trying to process the image is helpful...but what I dont like is the quantative value they try to get you to place on our feelings.like 1-10 from 10 being unabreable to 1 being neutraul..yada..yada..it dosent feel right..almost like your grading your reactions ..like they do a pain scale..I guess it helps the clinician understand where your at with it...but as a patient dealing with an emotional trauma..its rather confusing to adapt an emotion to a number..and be graded on it as you are processing something so horrid..