purplebutterfly, I have done EMDR as trauma therapy and found it very helpful. As pinksoil said, there are ways to do EMDR without the eye movements. I think I would find the eve movements very hard to do while trying to focus on the traumatic incident. I use these two little buzzing thingies that my T told me I could put either under my thighs or under my feet. I use them under my feet as this gives good contact (I always wear clogs to therapy just in case we do EMDR). I find the alternating pulses extremely soothing. I have actually wanted to use them in therapy even when we are not doing EMDR. After my EMDR sessions I would feel very exhausted. There is a whole protocol that goes along with the EMDR and it can be kind of lengthy (at least the way my T does it), so when we do EMDR we have a longer session (~90 minutes). You can always try it and if it doesn't work, nothing lost. If you are apprehensive, you might want to start with something small, rather than the most traumatic incident in your life. My T says he sometimes has clients make a list of the top 20 traumatic incidents in their lives and then they go through them with EMDR, one incident at at time. (I haven't done it that way myself.)