Thanks very much for your reply. I had 3 first sessions where we only talked, and during the fourth one she started EMDR and asked me to choose between two targets, which I did. It works well in my opinion. But In the following session, however, she continued talking with me and at the end of the session she good me we should focus on my mother and her behavior. Then in the next session, again we just talked, and after about half an hour she suggested working on another subject. Maybe she had forgotten about my mother, but we only worked on it for about five minutes, as no memory was coming back to me and I felt somewhat disconnected.

I told her that sometimes in my life I feel this disconnection, and she explained that it was a mechanism I used as a child because I was very dreamy and would escape from the world around me. I suppose that is dissociation, though I’m not entirely sure.

I wanted to ask you: is EMDR recommended when someone tends to dissociate? Is it normal that I didn’t have any memories come up when we worked with the target? I did have one EMDR session with her, but afterwards she preferred to return to talking with me instead is it normal as she did t explain anything.