EMDR Apps takes the mechanics of a well-established psychotherapy method and rebuilds them for high-functioning people who want to work on specific, performance-related memories and cognitions or build resources.
Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing is a structured psychotherapy that helps the brain reprocess distressing memories using bilateral stimulation: rhythmic left-right input such as alternating tones or a moving visual target.
The apps adapt that mechanism for subclinical, high-performing users. It is not psychotherapy and not a medical device. It's a guided self-help tool for people with no clinical diagnosis who want to work on specific, performance-related memories and cognitions.
Who it's for. People without a clinical diagnosis of PTSD, depression, OCD or anxiety disorder. Onboarding screening confirms suitability and routes anyone who needs more than self-help toward professional EMDR support.
Every program shares the same three flows, a safety-first structure you move through at your own pace. Legal swaps Clear for Prepare, a rehearsal of what is ahead.
Safe-place establishment and resourcing with visual and audio bilateral stimulation at a slow ~0.5 Hz. Use it as a first session, before a Clear or Build, as a standalone stabiliser, or as a calm close.
The full four-stage EMDR protocol (Stabilise → Identify → Process → Integrate) with visual and audio bilateral stimulation in landscape. Tracks distress (the subjective level of disturbance, SUD 0–10) and the validity of a desired cognition (VOC, 1–7) across the session.
Resource Development & Installation: a future-focused session that installs a quality you want. No negative cognition and no distress rating; just strengthening what drives you forward.
Subjective level of disturbance. How distressing a memory feels, tracked down across a Clear session.
Validity of cognition. How true a desired cognition feels, tracked up as you process and install.
A dashboard charts SUD and VOC over time, so change is visible, not just felt.
Your screening answers and session content stay on your device. We can't see them.
Two simple scales sit at the heart of every session. Distress should fall; the cognition you want should strengthen. Results visualise the before and after, and a progress view shows the trend across sessions, turning inner work into something you can actually track.
Self-guided memory work only belongs in an app if it's built to protect the person doing it. Five layers do exactly that.
Nine stages with hard exclusions, Patient Health Questionnaire-4 (PHQ-4) with Generalized Anxiety Disorder-7 (GAD-7) / PHQ-9 escalation, and exit ramps to professional support.
Every Clear opens with a set-up step before any memory work, and if tension remains at the body scan, the session takes you to your safe place.
"Stop and ground" is always visible, triggering four-step grounding that ends at your safe place.
If distress doesn't shift after several sets, the session redirects to careful closure and a therapist referral.
Body scan only runs once the desired cognition is strong (VOC ≥ 6); residual disturbance is contained first.
EMDR Apps is not a medical device and not a substitute for professional care. If screening indicates that self-help isn't appropriate, the app says so, and points the way to qualified EMDR support.
One shared EMDR-based method behind every EMDR app. See which one fits your arena.
