Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing Therapy (EMDR)

Healing Trauma One Bilateral Movement at a Time

We offer a unique and highly effective approach to healing through Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) therapy. This powerful, well-researched treatment can help you overcome trauma and adversities such as:

• Abuse

• Bullying

• Grief/loss

• Intimate partner violence

• Attachment wounds

• PTSD

• Abandonment

• Other life difficulties

EMDR Process

Your brain has a natural way of recovering from traumatic memories and events. This healing process involves communication between three key parts of the brain:

• Amygdala: The alarm system for stressful events

• Hippocampus: Responsible for learning and memories about safety and danger

• Prefrontal Cortex: Controls behavior and emotions

EMDR is based on the Adaptive Information Processing (AIP) model, developed by Dr. Francine Shapiro. According to this model, much of the distress we experience comes from unprocessed traumatic or disturbing life events. These experiences become "blocked" or "frozen" in our brains, with their original pictures, sounds, thoughts, feelings, and body sensations. When we recall these events, the associated feelings and sensations can be triggered again and again.

EMDR uses an eight-phase, three-pronged approach to facilitate normal information processing and integration. This process targets:

1. Past Experiences: Addressing the root cause of distress

2. Current Triggers: Alleviating present symptoms

3. Future Challenges: Preparing for potential difficulties

With EMDR, the disturbing memory is still remembered, but the flight, fight, or freeze response from the original memory is resolved. 

Key Benefits of EMDR Therapy

• Holistic Healing: Targets the root cause of distress.

• Efficient and Effective: Helps individuals process trauma more quickly without requiring extensive verbal descriptions.

• Dual Awareness and Bilateral Movement: Keeps the body grounded in the present while accessing past events.

Start Your Healing Journey

EMDR therapy can help you heal from trauma and other distressing life experiences. You are not alone, and there is a path to healing. Reach out to us today to begin your healing journey.