Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR)

The burden you carry is dragging you down.

Life continues to be a struggle, even after many years. Despite how you feel, you’ve managed to get through and exceed your expectations, become successful, and have a close relationship. However, it doesn’t feel like that inside.

For far too long, your life keeps spinning out of control, and you don’t know how to regulate your emotions to regain control. Certain situations or people have begun to trigger you, and you don’t understand why.

You carry this burden like an enormous weight.

Now, you are ready to put down the burden and become free from the pain for the first time in a long time.

Gaining understanding leads to freedom.

Uncovering all those emotions, thoughts, memories, and experiences you’ve worked so hard to bury can feel very intimidating. The fact is they are not buried, and by avoiding them, they will become more powerful and more challenging to manage and function. This is why you are feeling the way you’re feeling.

The good news is that you have lived through the worst! You are resilient and much stronger than you know! Strength lies in surviving, seeking, being open to finding something different, and doing something different while committing to healing the past once and for all.

Your nervous system has been living in the “Fight-or-Flight” mode for too long, and your body remembers. This survival response keeps us safe in extreme life-and-death danger, but the problem is that we are not currently in that danger; past experiences are simply triggering our nervous system.

Through EMDR, we can work together to help release the past from your nervous system, learn how to calm and soothe yourself and change the pathways to make new healthy connections in the brain.

What is EMDR?

EMDR is an extensively researched form of psychotherapy proven to help individuals recover from trauma or Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) and other distressing life experiences. It differs from “Talk Therapy,” as talk therapy is a left-brained activity, whereas trauma and emotions are stored in the right brain.

This therapeutic approach utilizes bilateral stimulation, which may take many forms, such as literal eye movements, tapping, or bilateral sounds. It allows us to find the core issues by working to where they originated. Once we explore these experiences, we activate neural networks to begin processing. We will continue this process until the target is no longer distressing.

Processing the trauma is for you, and my job is to ensure that you are indeed processing, but I don’t need to know every detail. Individuals often find this treatment less invasive and gentle; it is the fastest way to process the material.