Eye Movement desensitization and reprocessing (EMDR) is an established treatment for trauma-related issues, with strong evidence for its efficacy in the treating of PTSD. The technique was initially used with Vietnam Veterans who suffered from PTSD but it is now widely used in general populations with adults, adolescents and children and addresses a broad spectrum of traumatic, affective and anxiety disorders. The theory underlying EMDR presumes that when a memory of a disturbing event is inadequately processed, neural networks can freeze the related perceptions, emotions, bodily sensations and cognitions in a state of potential activation, identical to the actual time of the traumatic memory. In brief, people can be triggered in the present by an event, and then re-experience the distress as acutely as in the past. EMDR attempts to process disturbing memories by using bilateral eye movements, audio, or tapping to facilitate connections between neural networks in the brain by unblocking maladaptively stored subconscious images, emotions and body sensations. the neurons rewire and memories are processed and move from the limbic to the prefrontal part of the brain allowing for adaptive, present day and compassionate processing.