Motley Crue Member Gets ‘Trauma’ Therapy

Motley Crue bassist Nikki Sixx recently revealed that he has been undergoing Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) therapy, a treatment for symptoms of trauma.

On Sunday, December 29th, Sixx took to his social media to write: “A lot of us talk about New Year’s resolution’s. I like the idea of resetting myself a few times a year. I spend alot of time up in the National Park in Wyoming. That’s a solid restart for me. Another around my birthday and then Dec 31- Jan 6th.

“I am personally on a deep reflective journey right now and as usual it will turn into something. A lyric, a book , a song. Also I’ve been doing EMDR therapy. That’s a golden ticket if you’re up for change. I live for change. At least evolution.

“Do you have any new goals or resolutions you wanna share with the rest the class? By the way Happy New Year.”

As per the Cleveland Clinic, when you undergo EMDR, you access memories of a trauma event in very specific ways. Combined with eye movements and guided instructions, accessing those memories helps you reprocess what you remember from the negative event. That reprocessing helps “repair” the mental injury from that memory. Remembering what happened to you will no longer feel like reliving it, and the related feelings will be much more manageable.

Motley Crue is set to return to Las Vegas for a series of live appearances this spring. “The Las Vegas Residency” will find them playing an exclusive limited run of 11 shows at Dolby Live at Park MGM from March 28th through April 19th, 2025.

Crue’s third Vegas residency is being billed as a “tell-all show [that] will immerse the audience in the band’s history, leading all the say through their record-breaking Stadium Tour.” They previously set up shop in Vegas in 2012 for “Motley Crue Takes On Sin City” and 2013 for “Evening In Hell”.