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Attachment, Dissociation, Complex Trauma and EMDR with guest Melissa Parks

Complex Trauma Recovery

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The Importance of Preparing for Reprocessing

I don't think I had a very good EMDR therapist and the main thing that kind of went wrong is I didn't really feel comfortable with her or like build rapport with her she was like a little bit judgmental. So it made it impossible to relax and so when she would be trying to get me to like go reprocess I was like that there was a wall up like I couldn't do it. Now in retrospect I'm like yeah because why would I have wanted to go into such a vulnerable place with this woman that I feel like is kind of judging me you know what I mean? There has to be a comfortable relationship for that to even be a possibility absolutely absolutely 100%

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