EMDR Therapy stands for Eye Movement Desensitisation and Reprocessing Therapy, which is the technical name for this therapy that helps people to reprocess overwhelming past experiences. When we have not yet come to terms with and experience, it can cause difficulties in the present by distorting our interpretations and exaggerating our physiological reactions to more benign experiences in the here and now. EMDR Therapy works to shift information that has been stored in an excitable, unhelpful way in your nervous system to connect it to the healthier, more helpful information in the rest of your brain.