Phase 1
What is the main goal of Phase 1 in EMDR?
What is gathering a detailed history and identifying target memories?
What is the primary purpose of Phase 2 in EMDR?
What is to build rapport and skill building to enhance client stability before reprocessing?
What are the three main components rated in Phase 3?
What are the image, negative cognition/belief, and emotions?
Who Developed EMDR Therapy
Who is Francine Shapiro
True or False: You should always jump into memory reprocessing in the first session if the client is eager.
What is False? Phase 1 is for safety and strategy
This resource taps into imagery, body awareness, and calm emotions. It’s like installing a cozy internal cloud 9.
What is the Calm/Safe Place exercise?
What does SUDS stand for and measure?
What is Subjective Units of Disturbance Scale, measuring distress from 0–10?
What inspired Shapiro to explore bilateral stimulation?
What is noticing her distress decreasing while walking in the park
These two beliefs (one a hater, one a hype woman) get identified early to guide reprocessing.
What are Negative Cognitions and Positive Cognitions?
Why might you introduce a container visualization during Phase 2?
What is to help the client mentally store intrusive thoughts and memories until reprocessing?
What scale is used to rate how believable a Positive Cognition feels?
What is the Validity of Cognition (VOC) scale, 1–7?
Eye movements in EMDR mimic this natural brain function that helps consolidate memory.
What is REM sleep?
This concept helps the therapist understand a client's current symptoms in relation to past experiences.
What is the Adaptive Information Processing (AIP) model?
True or False: You can skip Phase 2 if a client has high distress tolerance.
What is False?
Why is body awareness a required piece of the Phase 3 puzzle?
What is because trauma is stored somatically and needs to be processed through the body?
What does AIP suggest?
What is Adaptive Information Processing: trauma memories get stored dysfunctionally and need reprocessing
What’s a red flag during history taking that might delay reprocessing?
What is an unstable presentation, dissociation, or lack of internal resources?
What’s a good clinical reason to pause and delay EMDR treatment planning during Phase 1?
What is active crisis, high dissociation, lack of affect tolerance, no sense of safety, lack of internal resources or complex comorbidities?
What is the purpose of the Phase 3 assessment process?
What is to activate the memory network and collect baseline data for reprocessing?
True or False: EMDR is only for PTSD
What is False? It’s effective for anxiety, grief, phobias, and more