Any method is only as good as the practitioner.

I got flooded. I was flooded before I began and I was more flooded after. I was also in an unsafe home while trying to do emdr. The therapist should have known better.

than that, when I tried it in later years, therapists weren't doing shapiros protocol at all. One said her clients felt better just staring at the light letting their minds wander. Another waved her fingers in my face as I stared at her incredulously and asked if I felt better. She had no idea that its not eye movement desensitization if my eyes are staring and not moving. In this state any third grade dropout can be al psychotherapist. But they weren't much worse than the PhD who to her credit did follow the protocol

I wouldn't do it again, but Im probably not a good candidate. I have layer upon layer of trauma and most recently jump from topic to topic doing emdr or hrainspotting and my therapist won't or can't direct me to just one. She's an excellent therapist but emdr doesn't work for us.

So the short answer is I
like the idea of it, but I haven't liked the method for complex ptsd. It might be different for simple ptsd. Talk to her about that.

I think therapists Should not push or hurry trauma therapy.