About EMDR Matters
Therapist-built tools for online EMDR — shaped by real sessions, open to community feedback, and designed to put clients first.
Client-first
Minimal data storage
Smooth bilateral stimulation
Trauma-informed stages
Community-driven
Free to use
For clients
EMDR Matters helps you and your therapist do online EMDR with a smooth moving ball and bilateral sounds on your own screen — not a blurry shared window in a meeting app.
You wait until your therapist lets you in. You talk on video when that fits the stage of the session. When it is time for bilateral stimulation, the ball and tones run on your device, controlled by your therapist.
We do not record your session or build a clinical file about your therapy on our servers. Your name is used only so your therapist can admit you from the waiting room.
For therapists
This project is used in live EMDR practice. Priorities follow what matters in the room:
- Smooth BLS — the ball and tones are rendered on the client device, not screen-shared through Zoom or Teams.
- Privacy by design — no session recording, no clinical notes store, no long-term client profiles. Operational data is short-lived. Full privacy policy.
- Trauma-informed pacing — waiting room, then video connection, then bilateral work when you are ready; clear end to the session.
- Not competing with Zoom — we do EMDR stimulation well. If you prefer Zoom or Teams for video, a BLS-only sidecar mode is planned so your meeting app stays in charge of face and voice.
- Accessible economics — the app is free to use. Maintaining the service is time-consuming and incurs a cost for the software designer; you can donate or subscribe if you find it useful and valuable.
Privacy in brief
- Video and voice use peer-to-peer WebRTC when the network allows.
- We do not store session recordings, transcripts, or therapy content.
- Client names are used only for the waiting room and active session, then removed; queue records are deleted after a short retention period.
- Optional voice processing runs in the browser, not as a cloud recording pipeline — which may mean a quiet session environment is more important to avoid background noise.
Feedback welcome
Development is collaborative and community-informed. If you use EMDR Matters in practice, we want to hear from you — especially what would help your clients in session.
Helpful feedback includes:
- Device and browser (e.g. iPhone Safari, Windows Chrome)
- Stage: waiting room, video mode, or BLS mode
- What you expected vs what happened
- How a change would improve the client experience