Perhaps helpful to those of us in this forum who are considering EMDR - here is a therapists checklist for utilizing EMDR with dissociative clients:

1. Survival/Environmental safety:
2. Family safety:
3. Sobriety/abstinence:
4. Is abuse occurring now:
5. Ability to name affect:
6. Ability to tolerate affect:
7. Grounding ability:
8. Candor:
9. Rapport:
10. Trust:
11. Phobic avoidance of loss of control:
12. Agreed upon emergency procedures:
13. Contract for no harm and back-up plan:
14. Self control procedures including relaxation:
15. Big picture view of course of treatment:
16. Support network:
17. Financial:
18. Medical contraindications:
19. Ability to tolerate positive expectations, hope: