https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/emdr-taking-a-clo...
So, now to the bottom line: EMDR ameliorates symptoms of traumatic anxiety better than doing nothing and probably better than talking to a supportive listener. Yet not a shred of good evidence exists that EMDR is superior to exposure-based treatments that behavior and cognitive-behavior therapists have been administering routinely for decades. Paraphrasing British writer and critic Samuel Johnson, Harvard University psychologist Richard McNally nicely summed up the case for EMDR: “What is effective in EMDR is not new, and what is new is not effective.”
https://osf.io/ezcuj/wiki/home/
Please name the concrete study and whether it could be reproduced.
At the very least it's a profitable venture for the therapist, well north of $100 per session, IIRC.