Virtual EMDR Tools
All the information you need to find the right Virtual EMDR Tool for you
Virtual EMDR Tools - What you need to know!
Virtual EMDR tools range in their pricing, functionality and user-experience. Before you choosing the right virtual platform for your EMDR practice, here are a few things to consider:
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Look & Feel - different platforms have a different look and feel.
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Cost - remote EMDR platforms cost ranges from free to $200 a year
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Functionality - some platforms provide a virtual lightbar. Others provide a lot more
What are virtual EMDR tools?
Virtual EMDR tools are web-based platforms that allow EMDR therapists to provide EMDR virtually. These platforms range in terms of cost, functionality and user experience. While some platforms provide only basic functions, others allow the integration of visual and tactile bilateral stimulation (allowing you to synch remote tappers on the client’s end).
Bilateralstimulation.io
This tool is both free and user-friendly, ensuring HIPAA compliance while delivering online BLS training. It supports visual and auditory BLS, and with the addition of remote BLS buzzers, tactile BLS can be offered remotely. Alongside the free version, bilateralstimulation.io provides a professional plan at $15 per month, granting access to premium features.
Bilateralstimulation.io
Annual cost: $0 – $150
Moovd - A Virtual Platform Based on EMDR 2.0
Experience the future of EMDR therapy with Moovd, the first-ever AI-based platform designed to enhance your practice. Developed on the foundation of the memory taxation hypothesis and supported by rigorous scientific studies, Moovd is poised to transform the way we approach trauma treatment.
Moovd
Monthly Cost: $34.95
Bilateral Base
Bilateral Base is a web-based, HIPAA-compliant application that offers a free plan (5 hours a month) and some paid plans, starting at $12.95 a month. The app combines video features with controls over sound and visual BLS. In the near future, there will be an option to combine tactile BLS with the app.
Bilateral Base
Monthly cost: $12.95
RemotEMDR
RemotEMDR offers an all-in-one platform that includes built-in video, HIPAA compliance, and synchronized BLS. The platform integrates with the Bi Tapp, a tactile bilateral stimulation device and offers visual, tactile and auditory bilateral solution. You can test the platform with a free 14-day trial.
RemotEMDR
Annual cost: $200
ActiveEMDR
Active EMDR offers a free bilateral stimulation (BLS) tool for EMDR therapists. This web-based application aims to replace your EMDR equipment (no more EMDR light bars!). Active EMDR integrates with popular video-conferencing solutions and runs on your browser, so you don’t have to download any software.
ActiveEMDR
Cost: Free
Virtual EMDR Tools
FAQs
Remote or virtual EMDR can be effective when the therapist pays attention to details. EMDR clinicians from all over the world report experiencing positive clinical outcomes with EMDR done virtually.
EMDR is done remotely by offering bilateral stimulation (BLS) through the internet. By using a web-based application that the therapist controls, the client receives the BLS while looking at a computer screen (visual), by tapping or using remote tappers (tactile), or by listening to bilateral sounds (auditory).
EMDR therapists who work remotely must take safety measures into consideration. As a therapist, you have to pay special attention when working with clients who tend to dissociate or when treating clients who are at high risk. When you pay attention to details, remote EMDR sessions are safe.
To have a successful virtual EMDR therapy session, your client should use a screen that is large enough to have full eye movements. Laptops (13 inch or larger) are usually sufficient. If a client works with an iPad or a tablet, they may need to get their face very close to the screen. Phones are too small when using visual BLS.
No. Similar to in-person EMDR sessions, you can use tactile BLS and tones. The butterfly hug is very popular among clinicians and clients. Also, some of the web-based applications for EMDR offer tones and tactile bilateral stimulation.
Make sure you have the client’s phone number available and that your phone is accessible prior to starting a remote EMDR session. If you lose connection, reach out to your client as fast as you can.
