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Scenario

When couples are both doing EMDR therapy and triggering each other

My partner and I are both in EMDR therapy with different therapists and we keep having these intense reactions to each other's processing sessions - like when they come home from working on childhood stuff, I get flooded with my own trauma memories and we end up in this awful spiral where we're both triggered and can't help each other.

More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Two people processing trauma simultaneously can create a feedback loop where one person's activated nervous system dysregulates the other's, making home feel unsafe for both.

Your guide for this
Patan
Patan works with people navigating exactly this kind of situation.
Ideas that help explain it
Worth thinking about

“Where Are You with EMDR and trauma processing?”

Peri

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