About the TRN

What does the TRN do?

(from the EMDRHAP website)
The TRN is sponsored and coordinated at the national level by Trauma Recovery/HAP. The key partners in the project are the growing number of local/regional Trauma Recovery Network Associations or Chapters staffed by volunteers who prepare themselves and their communities to restore and safeguard psychological well-being in the event of a disaster.
For more information about what the Greater Orlando TRN has been up to, click the link below.

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What is EMDR?
(from the EMDRHAP website)
EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing) is a cost-effective non-invasive evidence-based method of psychotherapy that facilitates adaptive information processing developed by Francine Shapiro, PhD in the late 1980's. EMDR is an eight-phase treatment which comprehensively identifies and addresses experiences that have overwhelmed the brain's natural resilience or coping capacity, and have thereby generated traumatic symptoms and/or harmful coping strategies. Through EMDR therapy, patients are able to reprocess traumatic information until it is no longer psychologically disruptive. 

For additional information on EMDR click here! 

How effective is EMDR and what can it treat?
(from the EMDRHAP website)

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  • EMDR therapy has been listed as an effective treatment by the American Psychiatric Association, Departments of Defense and Veterans Affairs, International Society for Traumatic Stress Studies, the World Health Organization, the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services and numerous other international agencies.
  • More than a dozen studies support the use of EMDR therapy for trauma resulting from natural disaster and treatment of war- and terrorism-related trauma.
  • With little modification, EMDR has been used successfully in response to a variety of mass-casualty events such as community homicide and can be integrated with educational formats.
  • EMDR therapy has a positive impact on intrusive imagery (such as nightmares and flashbacks), numbing, and hyperarousal symptoms of PTSD, as well as on associated grief and depression.
  • In several direct comparisons with cognitive-behavioral therapy, EMDR offers equivalent effects more quickly (fewer sessions and/or no homework), process analyses indicate less distress for individuals undergoing treatment.

Past community responses

  • Pulse Trauma Response of survivors and first responders.
  • Hurricane Irma Trauma Response for survivors and first responders.
See some members of the Greater Orlando TRN and Orlando EMDR community in our Keep Orlando Dancing video!!.