At Nema, we find the right trauma therapy for you
Nema offers the most effective and comprehensive trauma care, delivered by trained PTSD therapists.
What to know about common trauma therapy options
Cognitive Processing
Therapy (CPT)
Therapy (CPT)
EMDR
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Prolonged Exposure
(PE)
(PE)
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What treatment looks like
Reframes your thinking
Uses eye movements to help your brain process your trauma
Patients gradually approach  trauma through re-exposure
How it’s typically delivered
Telehealth, in-person, at home, and groups
Telehealth and in-person
Telehealth and in-person
Effectiveness for symptoms
Highly effective for up to 10+ years
Highly effective with likely lasting improvement
Highly effective for up to 10 years
Time to recovery
Weeks (at Nema)
Weeks to months
Usually 3+ months
Offered at Nema?
Yes
Yes, if CPT isn’t successful
Yes, if CPT isn’t successful
What to know about common trauma therapies
Learn more about Cognitive Processing Therapy (CPT), EMDR, and Prolonged Exposure (PE)
What treatments looks like
CPT
Reframes your thinking
EMDR
Uses eye movements to help your brain process your trauma
PE
Patients gradually approach  trauma through re-exposure
How treatment is delivered
CPT
Research shows CPT is effectively delivered virtually
EMDR
Less effective for patients because of higher drop-out rates
PE
Very effective for a smaller percentage of people
Efficacy for trauma
CPT
More effective for most people
EMDR
Uses eye movements to help your brain process your trauma
PE
Includes re-exposure to trauma
Time to recovery
CPT
Weeks (at Nema)
EMDR
Weeks to months
PE
Takes longer
Offered at Nema?
CPT
Yes
EMDR
Yes, if CPT isn’t successful
PE
Yes, if CPT isn’t successful
Why Nema focuses on Cognitive Processing Therapy
You can experience life beyond PTSD. Our intensive trauma healing program 
starts with CPT, the known leading trauma treatment, first.
The leading expert-recommended treatment
CPT is the most-effective treatment designed specifically for PTSD. CPT fundamentally changes the way you think about yourself through cognitive restructuring. Instead of “I’m bad,” CPT helps you understand “a bad thing happened to me.”
Reframes unhelpful beliefs
PTSD makes you live in the past and ruminate on what you could have done differently to avoid the trauma. CPT teaches you how to break through this thinking so you can arrive at a more neutral understanding of what happened to you—ultimately freeing you from the distressing symptoms that are often a response to the self-blame.
Promotes long-term recovery
At Nema, we’re scientists and survivors who’ve done the treatment research for you. The trauma-focused therapy we use leads to an improvement in about 90% of people. CPT’s results are proven to last for decades—helping survivors find relief from their symptoms, depression,  anxiety, and overall life stressors.
Research shows CPT is most effective for PTSD
90%
of patients report clinical improvement in their PTSD symptoms after Nema treatment
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