EMDR Research Grant Awards
Convoca: EMDR Research Foundation
Termini: 01/02/2026

– 1st Priority – Advancing Evidence Based Practice: Increase the availability of quality EMDR research in areas where we already have a foothold in the literature but where more evidence is needed. Specifically, those areas are in the use of EMDR therapy to treat:

• Anxiety
• Depression
• Military PTSD
• Phantom Limb Pain
• To enhance recovery from the impact of cardiac events and the diagnosis and treatment of cancer

 

– 2nd Priority – Addressing the Global Burden of Trauma: Investigate the use of EMDR in natural or man-made disaster responses, by determining the effectiveness of the following protocols: early intervention protocols, the child or adult group protocols, or the use of EMDR standard protocols in disaster response.

 

-3rd Priority – Building Clinical Evidence: There are a number of areas where EMDR therapy is being used, clinical observations are positive, and there are some research indicators of success. However, more research is needed to build a body of literature in these populations or diagnostic categories, including but not limited to:

• Addictions
• Eating disorders
• Dissociative disorders
• Additional medical/somatic conditions
• Suicide prevention and/or to address the impact of suicide

These priorities apply to research across the lifespan, so that a study might address, for example, adolescent addiction, or geriatric depression.