EMDR for me has been the main kind of PTSD therapy that has really made a significant impact for helping me. The therapist I am working with now is using a different kind of PTSD therapy on me and i willing to try it....I am willing to try much of anything to try to help myself with all the BS I went through in my life. The one thing he keeps doing or saying that is getting under my skin is that he does not feel that after I work with him I need to do EMDR therapy again. He thinks that working with him, and what he is doing it will get me over things.

I have traumatic stuff happening to me since I was a kid, my father was both verbally and physically abusive to me. Not in the I am going to beat you black and blue kind of sense but to the point I was terrified to go with him on the weekends he had me (divorce parents from age of 4).

At first I didn't see what he did as wrong, it was just him being more physically then he need to be around me. But when I got older I did realize it still was wrong and it was abuse wither it was intended to hurt or not was besides the point.

My mother and I have always had a difficult relationship with each other ever since I turned 18 it seems she gives off an impression to me narassism, and she was always verbally abusive to me. She still can be at times.
And she refuses to see when she is incorrect about something and might need help with it. But ironically has no issue telling me when I have slipped up in some way.
I have also been abused and manipulated by friends, to the point of being used and stolen from.

And sexually abused multiple times.

So hearing a therapist even one I have worked with as long as I have with my own. Tell me I should not seek out EMD therapy after I work with him is just a croak to me. I mean for me and all the issues I have I am probably going to continue to be doing to therapy for a long time. And isn't it my choice if I want to have or make long term goals in my therapy life ? lol just input from my situation

but yes EMDR is really effective and a good method to use, it probably dosn't work for everyone but it did work well for me.