The Two-Hand Interweave in EMDR

The two-handed interweave is the juxtaposition invitation for me that I want you to feel and hold this first emotional learning in one hand. And then the other imagine this felt sense of difference, this, you know, and whatever I use the specific language for the client of what they're imagining but for them to just guide their attention to holding both. It's intuitive that way; it works very nicely. Well, and the challenge for the therapist to sit in the tension of the dissonance and not try to control the outcome of it is such a confrontation to our training," she says.