Peak Performance EMDR is a sub-specialty within EMDR. EMDR was originally developed with a particular focus on people who experienced symptoms of post-traumatic stress disorder.

Since, EMDR has been successfully used to treat a variety of issues and traumatic events, both "big-T (those considered to be large traumatic events such as physical or sexual assault) and "small-t" (those considered by most to be smaller traumas that in fact, have a very detrimental and long-lasting impact on people, such as childhood disappointments or humiliating experiences).

Issues and experiences of traumatic events known to be successfully addressed by EMDR other than peak performance include:

• anxiety

• intrusive negative self-talk

• overwhelming fears and phobias

• physical abuse/assault

• sexual assault/incest

• abortion

• grief and loss

• verbal abuse

• hauntingly humiliating and embarrassing moments of the past

• painful childhood and adolescent experiences

• depression

• car accidents

• personal injury

• traumatic airplane flights

• natural disasters

• combat

• near death experiences

• abandonment

• discrimination

• anger issues

• witnessing another's trauma

• relationship difficulties

• low self-esteem

• fear of failure

• sexual problems

• the "yips"