The Crazy Wisdom Community Journal • January - April 2013 • Page 59
Dr. Zona Scheiner agrees: “EMDR can be addictive.” Scheiner first read about EMDR in the early 1990s and “it sounded intriguing, but a bit strange.” Then in 1996, at the urging of one of her colleagues whose brother-inlaw was an early adapter of EMDR, Scheiner took her first training. Although she had been a family and couples therapist for over 20 years by that point, EMDR intensified her passion for her practice. She says, “It wasn’t until I learned EMDR that I could say to people — and this is not all people all the time, but to enough people enough of the time — that you do not have to live with this [trauma]. We can do something… You do not have to walk around with this on an ongoing basis. For psychotherapists, that is a pretty extraordinary thing to be able to say.”
Bennet Wolper Other Local EMDR Therapists (Listed on the EMDRIA website)
Dr. Zona Scheiner Scheiner says, “It wasn’t until I learned EMDR that I could say to people — and this is not all people all the time, but to enough people enough of the time — that you do not have to live with this [trauma]. We can do something…You do not have to walk around with this on an ongoing basis. For psychotherapists, that is a pretty extraordinary thing to be able to say.” Bennet Wolper, Scheiner’s husband and partner in their practice, Family Therapy Associates, “wasn’t immediately grabbed by” EMDR, however. After his wife returned from her initial training, she talked a lot about EMDR. Wanting to connect with what had become so important to his wife, Wolper decided to pursue his own training. He admits, “I did not have a knock-down, drop-dead, fabulous experience.” Then, the couple decided to take the second part of EMDR training together. Held in Philadelphia, and conducted by Dr. Shapiro herself, Wolper’s “practicum experience was very profoundly moving. It really connected with me personally.” While preferring to keep the details of what he processed private, Wolper was able to release a heightened — and what he calls “irrational” — sense of responsibility for others that had resulted from his own traumatic experiences. What EMDR released for Scheiner in her practicum, however, was not so much feelings associated with trauma, but her self-esteem. While it did not happen every day or even every week, for most of her life, whenever Scheiner felt badly or thought she didn’t perform well, she was unable to look at her body with honesty. She says, “I used to joke that I could gain 20 pounds in a day…I would look at myself in the mirror, and I would see a different person.” It wasn’t until two or three months after her EMDR training that Scheiner became aware that what she had processed in her EMDR practicum had stuck with her. She and Wolper presented a couples’ workshop and, after it was over, they decided they hadn’t really done their best work. They talked about it for a few hours and suddenly, Scheiner realized, “I didn’t gain any weight!” Because of EMDR, she was able to disconnect the experience of not performing her job well from the way she saw her body. Continued on page 60
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