Will update on therapy appt later but rightnow....

EMDR was the first type of therapy that was effective for my daughter. We'd tried several therapists for a number of years before starting with the EMDR therapist. Of course, by then the child was probably in middle school and that I'm sure helped (that her brain was maturing and more able to process the trauma).The first EMDR therapist was just amazing and my daughter made huge strides.Then we moved to another state. We found another EMDR therapist and she is terrific too.I don't know that there will ever be an end to my daughter's therapy, she was going less often, but then she had a visit with her bdad and since then has had to have more frequent appointments.It doesn't cost us anything yet because my daughter has Medicaid as secondary insurance. After she turns 18 it may become quite a problem though. We no longer live in the state that the adoption was in, but if she goes to that state for college, they said they could extend her Medicaid coverage.

I've had EMDR, and I would highly recommend it. Like everything else, it works for a lot of people but not everyone, but it's certainly worth a try. Painless. My best example is, you know how sometimes you're thinking hard about a problem or issue when you go to bed, and somehow when you wake up you have the answer? EMDR was like that for me, only it took 5 minutes per issue instead of 8 hours. The counselor and I would figure out what one of my issues was, I'd want to solve it or figure out its roots, we'd do the EMDR on it, and the answers would become so much easier to figure out and sometimes they'd just occur to me. It was great. I hope it works as well for you!

LOL no therapist within 2 hours of me. DK iif it would work by Skype. New job can't really take off work for appointments.

I know EMDR works wonders for many, many people. For my son, it was not a good fit. Perhaps he needed other type of work first, say neurofeedback. Or maybe more distance from the events. At the time it was traumatizing to him. But, as I said, I know it can be a wonder resource for many others. Good luck!

Doesn't sound I am gonna get to do it anyway.

It's something I tried at home on myself....and it worked....then later I tried it again but instead of releasing the trauma, it re-introduced all the stuff it had previously removed :(

aspenhall, sounds like an advertisement for working with a professional. I know several people who've used it, in different states. All had great results with it. Both short and long-term trauma issues. (Short like car wreck.)