EMDR Therapy

You want to know if EMDR can help.

Anxiety, panic attacks, and phobias…
Chronic illness and medical issues…
Depression and bipolar disorders…
Eating disorders…
Grief and loss…
Pain…
Psychosis…
Military and first responders…
PTSD and other stress-related issues…
Sexual assault…
Sleep disturbances…
Dependence on substances…
Violence and abuse…

If you’re haunted by painful memories, bodily sensations, or limiting beliefs, EMDR can help. Keep reading…

Here’s what it is…

Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) therapy is an extensively researched, effective psychotherapy method proven to help people recover from trauma and other distressing life experiences.

With EMDR, you don’t have to talk in detail about the distressing issue, and you don’t have to do homework between sessions.

EMDR works directly on your brain to resolve unprocessed traumatic memories. We’ll stimulate both hemispheres of your brain using alternating eye movements, sounds, or taps. EMDR works like the back-and-forth eye moments of REM sleep, allowing the brain to naturally “reprocess” and heal those old memories.

EMDR doesn’t erase the memory, but it desensitizes you to it so it no longer disturbs you and your life.

Change your brain, change your life.

Research in neuroplasticity demonstrates that our brain can change, create new neural pathways, and produce new neurons. Because the brain has this ability to change, we can change our way of thinking and improve our mood.

Neural pathways in the brain are strengthened with repetition. One way to describe this process is “neurons that fire together, wire together.” Repetition of an experience leads to changes within the brain’s structure and how the neurons process that experience.

EMDR utilizes our brains’ neuroplasticity to reorganize itself by forming new neural connections, which allows the brain to compensate for injury and adjust to new situations.

Here’s what that can do for you…

Resourcing…

We will work to strengthen internal resources while soothing parts of you that feel limited. EMDR utilizes images, emotions, body sensations, and positive cognitions to increase feelings of calm, safety, and confidence.

Resolving relationship difficulties…

Attachment-focused EMDR works to repair unmet development needs (often called attachment wounding) when we have experienced neglect or abuse.

Recovering from trauma…

I often utilize EMDR for clients with “big T” trauma (e.g., a major car accident or assault).

But it’s also effective for addressing “small T” traumas (e.g., chronic or ongoing stressful conditions like interpersonal conflict, difficult parents, or financial stress). The effects of “Small T” trauma can accumulate and distress your nervous system and emotions just like “big T” trauma.

I use EMDR as an adjunctive therapy…

That means EMDR is not intended to replace or interrupt ongoing therapy. Instead, I’ll partner with your primary therapist to target specific memories, body sensations, or limiting beliefs with EMDR.

EMDR is usually a short-term intervention (4-12 extended sessions). Our aim will be to desensitize you to past pain or “kick start” results with your current therapist if you feel your progress has stalled and you’re just stuck in a loop, working on the same issues again and again without traction.

For many clients, EMDR therapy can be completed in fewer sessions than other psychotherapies.

This might be the break you’ve been looking for! Let me address your questions during your free consultation: (512) 765-4955