What is EMDR?

EMDR, Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing, is a method of psychotherapy that promotes emotional healing from traumatic life experiences at an accelerated rate. Once it was assumed that healing from severe emotional pain would take a long time. Now we know that our minds and bodies are hard-wired to heal themselves. EMDR works by facilitating the process where an individual can tap into his/her own healing resources.

EMDR is proven to be effective with a variety of issues including PTSD, stress, grief, social anxiety, anxiety, panic, OCD, phobias, and addictions. For more detailed information go to http://www.emdr.com/what-is-emdr/

Trauma Can Be Healed!

Sometimes life experiences can affect us so deeply that months and even years later, we still feel the impact in our daily lives. When our history becomes more than just our history, it may be trauma.

Traumatic events can range from the profoundly traumatic: war, violence, accidents, physical or sexual abuse; to more common life experiences: rejection, humiliation, exclusion, being ignored. Both types of trauma can produce symptoms of traumatic stress that impact our lives in the present and in the future.

It is not necessary to re-live the traumatic event during an EMDR session. You do not even have to talk about the event in detail. EMDR allows the client to reach new insights and healing images without suggestions from the therapist because healing is within you.               

When fully resolved (usually 3-10 sessions) symptoms of PTSD, accute stress, or moral injury will no longer trouble you. Although you will not forget what happened, thinking about it will not be disturbing. Negative beliefs associated with the trauma will change to more positive beliefs and you will be able to live your life more fully.  

Anxiety & Panic Can Be Overcome.

Your little, senseless [fears],... swirling lightly off on a mad course [of their own] like feathers dancing insanely in the wind, have no substance...Let them all go, dancing in the wind, dipping and turning till they disappear from sight, far, far outside of you.  

                      - from A Course In Miracles.

Targeting the symptoms and triggers of anxiety and panic using EMDR combined with cognitive therapy and mindfulness practices can lead to freedom from panic attacks and constant worry. EMDR can help with generalized anxiety, specific phobias, OCD, and agoraphobia as well as specific areas of anxiety such as social anxiety, fears of public speaking, anxiety related to aging, etc. 

What Does EMDR Work With?

After working extensively with EMDR for the past 15 years, I have found it to be the most effective psychotherapeutic method for resolving the issues listed below.

In addition to Level II EMDR training, I have completed advanced training in EMDR for anxiety, phobias, and OCD; addictions and dysfunctional compulsive behaviors (DeTUR).  

EMDR has recently been endorsed by the World Health Organization as a front line treatment for PTSD.

I always came out of my EMDR therapist's office reeling (in a good way); and the things I learned have stayed with me and enriched my conscious mind. It's a powerful process. Irecommend it.

  -from The Noonday Demon  by Andrew  Solomon

EMDR Works With:

PTSS/PTSD

Anxiety

Panic attacks

Fear & phobias

Moral injury

Accute stress

Grief and loss

Relationship issues

Infidelity

Childhood trauma

Physical abuse

Sexual abuse

Combat stress

Auto accidents

Natural disaster

Violent crime

Critical incidents

Work stress

School trauma

Agoraphobia

Loss of pets

Hoarding & cluttering

Anger management

Social anxiety

Physical illness

Flashbacks

Nightmares

Divorce recovery

Secondary trauma

Loss of self esteem

Procrastination

Perfectionism

Addictions

Compulsions/OCD

Writer's block

Athletic performance

Creative performance

Goal setting

Transitions