Securely attached children present a different clinical picture when revisiting trauma. We work with these children very slowly and carefully. Our protocol and experience with these children closely resembles the work of other EMDR therapists. It has been our experience that these children respond readily to the possibility that EMDR can help heal the thoughts and feelings that trouble them. Once again, we try to impact faulty conclusions.
All holding is accomplished with the child lying across the parent's lap.
We do not sit on children. We do use protective, loving, holding if the child is raging. Parents hold but do not verbally interact while the child rages. We will not allow the child to stop the process and leave the room in the middle of a rage. The process of protectively holding and loving a child through a rage response can be a first step in helping the child reach a new conclusion about self and others.