EMDR - Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocess for Cambodian People

EMDR Cambodia is an association of psychologists focusing on treating people with unresolved psychological trauma, providing training in mental health issues, and conducting scientific research on the themes of mental health among people living in Cambodia.

With the official recognition of the Ministry of Interior in early 2013, EMDR Cambodia has become a gathering place for a group of skillful mental health professionals. Our main activity is to provide psychological treatment services with quality and professionalism to clients.

Being fresh new to counseling and psychotherapy concepts of mental health, Cambodia is recently being equipped with effective and evidenced-based practices to restore the well-being of survivors of traumatic experiences in the past and other most at-risk populations who are suffered from psycho-social problems. Recognized by the American Psychiatric Association (APA) in 2004 as an effective treatment for Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD), EMDR has also taken its first journey to Cambodia since 2008. In the meantime, a number of Cambodian psychologists fourteen, and psychiatrists two were trained in EMDR both in the country and abroad. By the end of 2011, three EMDR practitioners were selected to take another level of EMDR training to become EMDR supervisors. An initiative idea to meet up all the professionally trained Cambodian psychologists and psychiatrists in EMDR to set up an association for the sake of mental health improvement emerged at the same time.