EMDR · Assessment
Target Sequence Plan
Past, present, future — sequenced for reprocessing
Map the work. List the touchstone memories feeding the current symptom, the present triggers, and the future templates you want to install.
1
Presenting issue
One sentence. Symptom, not story.
Issue
Negative cognition driving it
2
Past — touchstones
Earliest related memories. Worst-first or chronological.
Memory 1
Memory 2
Memory 3
3
Present — triggers
Current situations that activate the same NC.
Trigger 1
Trigger 2
Trigger 3
4
Future — templates
The scene you want them to be able to handle.
Future scene
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