Real EMDR Results in Las Vegas
Over two and a half years, from January 2024 through June 2026, I tracked every trauma target reprocessed through EMDR in my practice. The distress clients carried in, the hours it took to resolve, and the beliefs they walked out holding. In my practice, EMDR resolves trauma in a median of 2 hours, with 83% of targets fully resolved within 3 hours.
EMDR Results for Religious Trauma, Childhood Trauma, and Cult Exit Recovery
Many of these targets involved childhood trauma, religious trauma, and high-control or cult exit recovery, the core areas of my practice. These are the targets I've tracked in my practice over the past two and a half years.
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179 trauma targets tracked, across 52 individual clients
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Median processing time per resolved target: 2 hours
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83% of targets resolved within 3 hours
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Median starting distress: 7 out of 10 (0 to 10 self-rated subjective units of distress scale, SUDS)
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1 in 8 targets healed without direct processing
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Quickest target resolved: 1 hour
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Longest fully resolved target: 13 hours
Hard Material Resolves Just as Fast
80% of resolved targets began at a distress level of 6 or higher, averaging 7.4 out of 10. The median resolution time for that high-distress group was the same as for easier material: 2 clinical hours. Starting distress didn't predict slower typical resolution, it only widened the range.
Client Outcomes After EMDR
My clients most often began processing with sadness, shame, anger, anxiety, fear, and loneliness, emotions that had stayed locked in the body for years. As processing completed, they described peace, relief, lightness, warmth, and clarity. An open chest. Lighter shoulders. Sitting up straighter. Renewed energy.
EMDR Target Resolution Breakdown
I saw 63% of targets (112) resolve completely through direct processing, meaning no remaining distress and a positive belief the client rated as true or completely true.
13% (24 targets) healed along the way, softening on their own as related memories were resolved. 8% (14 targets) resolved together with another target, so connected they healed as one. 16% (29 targets) paused before completion, often due to life circumstances like a move or insurance change, or because a client chose to stop after significant improvement. Of the paused targets far enough along to show a trend, 6 out of 7 were actively improving when work stopped.
Counting every form of resolution, I saw 84% of tracked targets resolved.No target in this dataset was abandoned because processing failed.
Core Beliefs that Shifted
Most of my clients came in carrying beliefs like "I'm not good enough," "it's my fault," "I'm not safe," "I'm not loveable," or "I am a failure." By the end of reprocessing, those beliefs had shifted to "I am enough," "it's not my fault," "I am safe," "I am loveable," "I am capable," "I matter."
Clients rate how true a new belief feels on a 1 to 7 scale. Across resolved targets, belief strength grew from an average of 3.5 to 6.8, with 94% landing at 6 or 7. Not an affirmation. Something the body finally agrees with.
