Eye Movement Desensitization Reprocessing
What is EMDR and how can it help?
When we experience events that overwhelm our brain's capacity to cope, our fight, flight, or freeze response on the emotional/right side of the brain becomes over-activated. The natural result can look like depression, anxiety, or a variety of other presentations.
EMDR is a therapy that enables people to heal from the symptoms and emotional distress that are the result of disturbing life experiences that overwhelm the brain's capacity to cope.
EMDR therapy shows that the mind can heal from psychological trauma much like the body recovers from physical trauma. In successful EMDR therapy, the meaning of painful events is transformed on an emotional level.
To learn more about this treatment, click on the button below to be taken to the EMDR Institute, Inc. website:
Who is EMDR for? (You may find yourself in one or more of the following)
- You want relief from intrusive thoughts and/or recurring nightmares
- You want to restore joy and experience greater peace
- You have tried talk therapy and now want to try something different (*note*-EMDR is NOT traditional talk therapy)
- You want to move forward in life and want to no longer feel stuck
- You are high achieving, highly sensitive but want to feel a greater sense of meaning and purpose
- You are just plain sick of the past dominating your thoughts and negatively impacting your relationships