This might be the eye-deal way to tackle old trauma.

New data from Zocdoc reveals that there has been an 80% increase in the number of US women booking appointments for a unique form of therapy hyped by A-listers.

“Love it. Saved my life,” Miley Cyrus told The New York Times in May .

EMDR, short for eye movement desensitization and reprocessing , is a type of psychotherapy designed to ease the emotional pain from past trauma.

During a session, the therapist instructs the patient to recall a painful memory while helping the brain to process it using “bilateral stimulation.”

This often involves following the therapist’s fingers as they move back and forth, mimicking the rapid eye movements that naturally occur during sleep — when the brain naturally processes events.

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