How we write our EMDR content

Anyone reading about EMDR online deserves to know where the words came from and how much to trust them. This page explains our process in plain terms. We would rather tell you exactly how we work — including what we have and have not yet done — than hide behind a vague “reviewed by experts” badge.

What we write against

Every clinical claim on this site is written to align with two authorities, not with our own opinion:

• EMDRIA training standards. The EMDR International Association defines how EMDR is taught and practiced. Our descriptions of the eight-phase protocol, the resourcing exercises, and the scripts are written to match the standard model as EMDRIA teaches it — not a simplified or invented version.
• The WHO (2013) trauma guidelines and the primary research literature. Where we state that EMDR works, or how, we cite the source — Shapiro's foundational work, the WHO recommendation, meta-analyses such as Bisson et al. (2013), and mechanism studies such as van den Hout & Engelhard (2012). Claims are footnoted to their origin so you can check them.

How a page is made

1. Research first. We start from the primary sources and the EMDRIA-standard protocol, not from other websites. We do not paraphrase competitor content.
2. Written by people, for accuracy. Our content is hand-authored to be specific and honest — including the limits and open debates (for example, that EMDR's mechanism is still argued, and that it does not work for everyone). We deliberately avoid the confident, generic tone that trauma content often defaults to.
3. Cited to primary sources. Factual claims carry inline citations to their origin. If we cannot source it, we do not assert it.
4. Reviewed for accuracy against the standards above before publication, and updated when guidelines or evidence change.

Our commitment to named clinical review

We believe the strongest form of trust is a named, credentialed reviewer. We are in the process of engaging an EMDRIA-certified clinician to review our educational library and provide a named clinical byline. Until that review is complete, we will not claim a named clinician has reviewed a page that they have not. When it is in place, the reviewer's name, credentials, and role will appear on the relevant pages and here on this page — verifiable against the public EMDRIA directory.

We would rather be accurate about our process than impressive about it. If a page has been reviewed by a named clinician, it will say so, with their real credentials.

What Rewire is — and is not

Rewire's app is a self-guided wellness tool: it brings the resourcing and bilateral-stimulation techniques of EMDR into a guided experience you can use between therapy sessions. It is not a medical device, not a diagnosis tool, and not a replacement for working with a licensed trauma therapist. Our educational content is written to help you understand EMDR — not to help you self-administer reprocessing of traumatic material, which should be done with a trained clinician. Where a technique is safe for independent use (such as the Calm Place or Container), we say so; where it is not, we say that too.

Corrections

If you are a clinician or reader who spots an inaccuracy, we want to know. Email [email protected] and we will review and correct promptly. Accuracy in trauma education matters more than being right the first time.