EMDR is a safe, guided process in which your wonderful brain reprocesses old material (memories and body sensations) that have become stuck and isolated as a result of trauma. You don’t have to sit in these painful memories; the accelerated approach of EMDR allows you to move through the past experiences quickly and without reliving horrific details. The result is integration: consolidating new information into your life narrative, promoting healthy and adaptive outcomes, and retraining your brain and body to release trauma and feel safe.

EMDR helps to balance your fears and anxieties, give you back control over your emotions and reactions, clear the darkness of depression, allow you to be more present, and help you experience more joy in life. EMDR heals the wounds caused by trauma by desensitizing you to the painful experiences that have haunted you—without numbing you to all that life has to offer now.

Watch this brief video to see a simple explanation of the basics of EMDR. All of our therapists who offer EMDR are experienced clinicians with strong trauma-informed backgrounds. We will provide you with a personalized, focused, and effective treatment plan to address your concerns.

EMDR can:

• Significantly decrease anxiety and depression

• Increase self-awareness and self-acceptance

• Improve the quality of your relationships

• Increase your confidence in setting healthy boundaries

• Decrease addictions, compulsions, or substance use

• Improve physical wellbeing

• Decrease unhelpful nervous system activation

• Increase your ability to use coping skills

• Help you discover new joy

• Improve your sleep

• Improve your concentration and help you think more clearly

• Enhance your performance at work, in creative endeavors, and more

EMDR is for you if you are highly motivated to overcome symptoms related to trauma. Trauma includes, but is not limited to: combat trauma; sexual trauma; childhood trauma; relational trauma; generational trauma; and attachment trauma.

EMDR is for you if you have been to therapy before but didn’t see the results you wanted. EMDR is for you if you’ve never tried therapy before, but you want to get to work in the most effective way possible. EMDR is for you if you want a tailored and personalized experience in therapy.

EMDR is not for you if you want all of your trauma resolved in one session. EMDR can absolutely work wonders, but everyone is different and results vary. EMDR is not for you if you prefer talk therapy and don’t have a specific focus for therapy right now. We also do not provide EMDR for clients with severe psychosis or who are actively suicidal.

The flash technique is a safe way to process intensely disturbing material (whether memories or body sensations) without having to think about the memory. Instead, we will use positive experiences and feelings along with bilateral stimulation to guide you through desensitization of the disturbing material. Your subconscious does all the work! I know it sounds like magic (it almost is!), but it is based on scientific research and it works.

We book EMDR sessions for a minimum of 60 minutes. Many people choose EMDR therapy intensives to promote accelerated healing in a safe and effective manner. We offer EMDR both in-person and online.

An EMDR intensive is an extended EMDR session (or sessions). Your therapist will create a thoughtful and focused treatment plan so that you can work through all eight phases of EMDR at an accelerated rate. The more time we schedule, the more time you will have with your therapist to delve deep and see transformation. Due to the potential for life-changing results, we highly recommend therapy intensives when scheduling EMDR. Read more here.

Call us, or use the contact form today, to get a free consult scheduled. Once we get an idea of your needs, we will schedule your first session ASAP. You don’t have to wait a week to get a consult call with this group. We offer same-week appointments, and our focus is always on getting you the help you need as fast and effectively as possible.