Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) Therapy

Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) Therapy empowers the individual to tap into the body’s natural healing processes in order to integrate and move beyond traumas and disturbing life experiences. Events that are not integrated become unprocessed memory and get stored in the brain creating uncomfortable symptoms. These unprocessed and upsetting memories get stuck in our short term memory and EMDR therapy helps to move those memories on to long term memory where they belong. This facilitates the process of the past staying in the past rather than getting triggered in the present.

Is EMDR Right For Me?

EMDR would be a very helpful therapy for people who struggle with:

Healing Trauma / PTSD
Irrational fears or phobias
Painful memories
Anger or rumination

How can EMDR help me?

Face Memories

Through EMDR Therapy, the client and therapist together will face memories or troubling events from the past until they are no longer disturbing.

Resourcing

We guide the client to access their own inner resources and bring those strengths of calmness, presence, and compassion to the painful feelings.

Release Trauma

Through this process, trauma is healed and burdens are released, which allows feelings of confidence, creativity, and aliveness to resurface.

What's intriguing about EMDR is both how well it works and the question is how it works and that got me into this dream stuff, and how it does not work through figuring things out and understanding things. But it activates some natural processes in the brain that's helped you to integrate these past memories.”
~ Bessel A. van der Kolk