I've only had one practice session of EMDR so far where we picked a not-so-traumatic memory to work with, so I realise it's early days yet. But the recent change from Schema Therapy which I was just getting used to, to EMDR has left me feeling like I've been 'shut down'.

I had been writing stuff down and taking it in for the Therapist to read, to help her get an idea of some of the issues I am dealing with. So in ST there was more talking about and around these issues. In EMDR there's just a brief description of one 'scene' from an issue and that is all that is concentrated on.

I'm confused. She was encouraging me to try to express, describe, verbalise - all the stuff I couldn't say.... and now it feels like 'you don't need to talk about all that anymore, just a brief description will do'. Is that all it's going to be every week, until we've gone through all the really distressing stuff? Like, once it's been filed away in the correct place in my brain it doesn't need to be talked about any more?