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When I explain EMDR to people,

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a lot of times I believe that they think I'm a quack.

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It seems so non-traditional.

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To tell somebody that you're either going to

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wave your fingers in front of their face, or have a light bar,

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or tap them on the hands, that doesn't fit with

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what we know about psychology traditionally.

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And so I think people are skeptical.

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I think it's a treatment that has a lot of skepticism around it.

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And it's, sometimes it's a hard sell, but most of the time

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when people come in to see me they're pretty ready.

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They're ready, and they've tried other things,

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and they need something that works.

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And so they're willing to try it and see what it's all about.

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The good thing about EMDR is that

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I haven't seen it do anything bad,

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and so I can easily sell them on that.

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And I've seen a whole lot of benefit,

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so people are willing to take the chance with a treatment

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that they don't fully understand in order to get better.