About EMDR & ISP®

What is EMDR? EMDR stands for Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing. It is a therapeutic method to address patients’ trauma, intended to be applied by professionals.

When we are in pain, whether physical or emotional, we can undergo a process in order to properly heal the wound.

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Does EMDR work?

EMDR therapy shows that the mind can heal from psychological trauma, just as the body can recover from physical trauma.

Over 30 studies have concluded that EMDR does indeed work, and it is now used for treating combat injuries and trauma by the American Psychiatric Association, World Health Organization and the US Department of Defense.

Studies indicate a complete recovery from PTSD for 84%-100% of patients who have undergone a single trauma, while 77% of patients with multiple trauma that caused PTSD have been able to recover after six EMDR sessions.

This is record time in therapy, since previously several months or years of treatment were necessary in order to alleviate PTSD and its symptoms.

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ISP® stands for Immediate Stabilization Procedure. The method is an EMDR-derived stabilization procedure for level 1 psychological first aid.

Emergency response procedure (ERP), a crisis stabilization process taught to EMDR trained therapists, was the predecessor to ISP®. The Emergency Response Procedure (ERP) was developed in Israel during terrorist attacks and wartime to modify the standard EMDR protocol.

The evolution of ERP to ISP® was a response to the need for first responders to provide stabilization procedures that could deescalate acute stress reaction (ASR) and reduce the development of post-traumatic stress disorder.