From mourning to meaning: EMDR in grief therapy

EMDR therapy is helpful in the treatment of grief and mourning. A significant loss (particularly under traumatic circumstances) can disable the ability to cope and compromise the ability to adapt. EMDR therapy can process the trauma of the loss and enable the linking in of adaptive information, ( e.g. positive heartfelt memories), giving the mourner a positive sense of connection. However, the mourner may have negative memories (unresolved trauma, losses, attachment-based memories that underlie response to loss) that can complicate the mourning process and EMDR treatment that need to be identified and reprocessed. This workshop will describe EMDR therapy treatment for grief and mourning, treatment frameworks that guide EMDR treatment, dealing with complications (e.g. mourner may equate losing the pain with losing connection to the deceased), and present videos that illustrate EMDR therapy with traumatic loss.

Conference

English

Roger Solomon

Solomon, R. (2026, January-February). From mourning to meaning: EMDR in grief therapy. Pre-conference presentation at the 6th Annual EMDR Asia Conference, Mumbai, India