legitimate reason to deny EMDR for PTSD?

[Family Court Strategies: When Your Partner Has BPD OR NPD Traits.]

I went to Kaiser HMO and requested EMDR because I think I have PTSD.  I'm 5 years out of a long marriage to uBPDxw.  Custody is 50/50.  I have no personal contact with my ex, only email and sometimes text re kid issues.

I got this response from the Kaiser counselor: 'I checked with our PTSD therapist who felt that since your contact with ex-wife was still ongoing, it would not be appropriate or useful to use her form of EMDR therapy.'

Does this make sense to anybody?  If I have PTSD, shouldn't it be treated?

Appreciate if you can advise how to respond to this.  They sent me to a "PTSD group" instead.  Groups are Kaiser's way of avoiding providing expensive individual treatment. 

[pilgrim]

I went to Kaiser HMO and requested EMDR because I think I have PTSD.  I'm 5 years out of a long marriage to uBPDxw.  Custody is 50/50.  I have no personal contact with my ex, only email and sometimes text re kid issues.

I got this response from the Kaiser counselor: 'I checked with our PTSD therapist who felt that since your contact with ex-wife was still ongoing, it would not be appropriate or useful to use her form of EMDR therapy.'

Does this make sense to anybody?  If I have PTSD, shouldn't it be treated?

Appreciate if you can advise how to respond to this.  They sent me to a "PTSD group" instead.  Groups are Kaiser's way of avoiding providing expensive individual treatment. 

[Xtrange]

There is a difference between PTSD and Complex PTSD (DESNOS).

I red somewhere else that EMDR is not recommended for C-PTSD.

In Amazon there is a book with good reviews about it (I haven't read it yet)

Complex PTSD: From Surviving to Thriving

Pete Walker

www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00HJBMDXK/ref=s9_simh_gw_p351_d6_i1?pf_rd_m=ATVPDKIKX0DER&pf_rd_s=center-3&pf_rd_r=0FYRMB35ZQZZ2R5MC8KV&pf_rd_t=101&pf_rd_p=1688200422&pf_rd_i=507846

[pilgrim]

Thanks, xtrange I will definitely read this, looks good.