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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]You and your therapist should agree on your therapy goals and the tools to achieve them. I would also be very put off if my therapist pushed me to discussing or doing something that I didn’t want to do. My current therapist sometimes brings up some work he thinks I should do but doesn’t push it if I am not receptive.

You came to therapy for a specific goal and tool (EMDR) and you are entitled to focus on that.

Separately it’s entirely possible that you can improve any distressing patterns based on your anxiety and self-criticism. I work on that all the time with my CBT therapist. But we rarely go into my childhood. Since the problem is in the here and now, that’s where we address it. [/quote]

Based on what she says in her OP, it sounds like the therapist doesn’t think EMDR will help until they figure out what the real underlying issue is, which would explain why the OP didn’t process the memory in a healthy way in the first place. It got stuck in her body for a reason and the therapist wants to know why before they start working on that. Makes sense to me based on my past experience with EMDR. It’s very routine to practice on less emotional memories and talk about what that brings up for the patient before addressing the traumatic memory they came in for.[/quote]

Yeah and that is not an evidence-bases way to address PTSD. PTSD therapy does not require delving into your childhood or the “root causes” of schemas. If OP wants to have the kind of broader therapy to get into that - fine. But what she or her insurer are paying for is PTSD therapy. [/quote]

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