EMDR Therapy

If you have tried traditional/talk therapy in the past? Do you continue to struggle with negative thoughts or beliefs, or often notice that past experiences negatively influence your life? Do you experience nightmares, feeling unsafe, being easily startled, flashbacks or fears that are holding you back? EMDR may help.

Let’s imagine our brain as a filing room. Sometimes when we experience a very stressful, frightening, or traumatic event, our brains are not able to process and file away those memories into the right filing cabinet. This happens because during the event, we are overwhelmed and simply trying to survive. The memories for these events end up on the floor of the filing room, and when we go through life, accessing one cabinet then another, we can be triggered, or trip over these files on the filing room floor. EMDR helps to take the distress from these unprocessed memories and place them in their proper filing cabinets, meaning less triggers/fear/flashbacks/anxiety, and less negative thoughts or beliefs.

I provide EMDR therapy to clients hoping to work through traumatic events, phobias, anxiety, negative self-beliefs and more. If you are interested in learning more about EMDR, the EMDRIA website offers wonderful information. If you would like to discuss EMDR and how it may help you, reach out today! (I really do love talking about EMDR!)

What is EMDR?

“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, including PTSD, anxiety, depression, and panic disorders.” (About EMDR therapy. EMDR International Association. 2021, December 13. Retrieved December 24, 2021, from https://www.emdria.org/about-emdr-therapy/)