Is it Okay for Christians to Use EMDR?  Understanding Faith, Neuroscience and Healing

EMDR is an evidence-based therapy that helps people heal from trauma and distressing memories. The mind can often heal itself naturally, in the same way as the body does. Much of this natural coping mechanism occurs during sleep, particularly during rapid eye movement (REM) sleep. Most of the time, your body routinely manages new information and experiences without you being aware of it. However, when you are traumatized by an overwhelming event your natural coping mechanism can become overloaded. This overloading can result in disturbing experiences remaining frozen in your brain or being "unprocessed". Such unprocessed memories and feelings are stored in the limbic system of your brain in an emotional form, rather than in a verbal "story" mode. This limbic system maintains traumatic memories in an isolated memory network that is associated with emotions and physical sensations, which are disconnected from the brain's cortex where we use language to store memories. This natural process of the brain putting away memories is God’s plan for helping us manage experiences and information.  EMDR allows the brain to do heal itself, which is what God naturally created it to do.