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May 2024
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Trauma Therapy: Why you may need EMDR

DR. MONA AMIN
About this episode

May is Mental Health Awareness Month, and in honor of my advocacy for more open conversation surrounding Mental health, I will be featuring episodes on ways to take care of our mental health so we can better care for ourselves and our children. Therapy is highly beneficial, and various modalities are used. EMDR (Eye movement desensitization and reprocessing) is an evidence-based approach that has been shown to help in processing traumatic events and changing negative patterns and helping people with mental health conditions like anxiety, depression, and OCD. I personally started EMDR earlier this year, and in honor of Maternal Mental Health Month, I invited Dr. Cassidy Freitas, who is a licensed marriage and family therapist who also does EMDR. 


We discuss: 

  • What EMDR is and the steps of EMDR
  • Who would be a good candidate 
  • Examples of how EMDR helped me and Dr. Cassidy 


For more resources on EMDR: EMDR Institute, Psychologytoday.com, and EMDRIA.


You can connect with Dr. Cassidy on Instagram @drcassidy, and for more resources, check out Dr. Cassidy's website.


If you are dealing with postpartum mental health concerns and need help, visit Postpartum Support International


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