EMDR Therapy

What is EMDR Therapy?

EMDR stands for Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing. It is a form of therapy that helps people heal from trauma or other distressing life experiences. EMDR therapy has been extensively researched and has demonstrated effectiveness for trauma.  

About EMDR Therapy?

Our brains have a natural way to recover from traumatic memories and events or stressful events that you may not have perceived as traumatic. This process involves communication between the amygdala (the alarm signal for stressful events), the hippocampus (which assists with learning, including memories about safety and danger), and the prefrontal cortex (which analyzes and controls behavior and emotion). While many times traumatic experiences can be managed and resolved spontaneously, they may not be processed without help. Stress responses are part of our natural fight, flight, or freeze instincts. When distress from a disturbing event remains, the upsetting images, thoughts, and emotions may create feelings of overwhelm, of being back in that moment, or of being “frozen in time.” EMDR therapy helps the brain process these memories, and allows normal healing to resume.  The experience is still remembered, but the fight, flight, or freeze response from the original event is resolved.”

How Does it Work?  Will I be Re-Traumatized?

EMDR will not force you or require you to be re-traumatized.  Together, we will explore and discuss your concerns, challenges, and symptoms in a safe, confidential, non-judgmental space and we will mutually agree on whether EMDR is an appropriate therapy modality for you. If we proceed you will have the ability to process past events and eliminate the power of current triggers.  It will allow for you to experience events and people in the future without being activated or held back from past experiences. 

I am certified in EMDR which means I completed an additional year of training outside of the basic EMDR training and I continue to take advanced EMDR trainings and consult regularly with other EMDR therapist to stay up to date on the latest research and strategies. 

For more information visit www.emdria.org 

Click here to watch a short video explaining the impact that trauma has on our brain and nervous system.

Click here to view a short video explaining EMDR Therapy.

Prince Harry shares is experience with EMDR Therapy.