Privacy and Safety
WOMBAT BLS is a free, no-login bilateral attention tool for EMDR-trained clinicians. It is designed for clinician-directed use during appropriate care. It is not EMDR training, a therapy protocol, a self-treatment tool, crisis care, or a replacement for clinical judgment.
What the Tool Stores
- No client names, notes, targets, diagnoses, transcripts, video, or session records are saved.
- Room state is temporary and memory-only in the current MVP.
- Room links expire, and room pages are marked noindex.
- Only aggregate technical events may be counted, such as room created, paired, disconnected, or ended.
How Rooms Work
- The clinician creates a room and shares a client link.
- The client link opens a stimulus-only view without a Google sign-in or account.
- The server relays control messages; the client browser renders the stimulus locally.
- When supported, control messages are encrypted in the browser before relay.
Clinical Boundary
- Use this only inside appropriate clinician-directed care.
- Do not use WOMBAT BLS as public trauma-processing instructions or unsupervised EMDR.
- Do not put private clinical information in room links, chat apps, filenames, or screen-share labels.
- If a client is in active danger, medically unstable, dissociative crisis, or urgent risk, use the appropriate clinical and emergency pathways rather than this tool.
Accessibility
- Clinicians should adjust speed, brightness, movement path, sound, and duration to the client and context.
- Stop or blank the stimulus if it causes discomfort, disorientation, visual strain, or safety concern.
- Use audio only after the client intentionally enables it on their device.