EMDR Therapy

(Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing)

EMDR: a Little Context

EMDR is an excellent, time-tested, and powerful therapy modality that has become known as a frontline trauma therapy of choice. It’s a therapy model that combines several different treatment approaches into an organized process for healing, reprocessing, and alleviating the past – and current or recent – stressful and disturbing memories and emotional burdens.

It uses “bilateral stimulation/dual attention stimulation” (e.g., fast eye movements going back and forth or audio tones beeping left, right, left, right while wearing a headset).

The process is known for getting more results in a shorter period, and compared to some therapies, it can feel gentler and more doable for the participant.

My clients benefit from EMDR

Throughout my EMDR work with clients, they often gain potent insights, healing imagery, new empowering beliefs about themselves or their situation, and new-found confidence. At the same time, the most distressing and disturbing aspects of their memories or experiences begin to fade out and diminish, as if turning the volume down on their pain to a barely audible level.

“How do I know if I have trauma?”

Trauma is sometimes defined as a sudden and overwhelming experience that someone has been through or indirectly experienced, which leaves them feeling helpless or with inadequate resources to face the experience. I believe that if you are alive, you have experienced significant or minor events that are traumatic. Not everybody identifies with the word “trauma.” Still, nevertheless, we have all experienced situations or experiences in life that left us feeling like we were in over our heads, suddenly hit in the gut.

Negative past experiences tend to resolve when a person realizes that they now have sufficient resources (internal or external) to meet similar challenges ahead with the feeling of hope and future optimism. But that’s not always how we handle painful experiences. Sometimes, we venture out into life with dread and guarded apprehension. We might take fewer risks for fear of similar painful results. Maybe today’s stressful experiences flood our bodies with tension and painful emotions.

If past experiences or traumatic events are holding you back, EMDR will help you process those memories while incorporating and realizing new insights. It can help you finally move forward without dragging the past alongside you.

Connect with me today to discover how EMDR can help you reach your goals.

EMDR Intensives are available.

An EMDR intensive is a unique EMDR format I use with individuals who are suffering from past experiences and who want to get past their trauma as quickly as possible without the therapy work taking longer than it needs to. While the standard EMDR therapy formats could take weeks, months or even years, these intensives help facilitate tremendous relief in a short, focused period.

Imagine you had to have surgery to get your tonsils removed, and after visiting with the surgeon, you find out that the procedure will be initiated over the course of several separate visits. You are put under with anesthesia twice just to get familiar with it. Next, only one tonsil is removed which follows an initial recovery period, and finally, the procedure finishes with the removal of the second tonsil followed by another recovery period.

We will work together for several focused hours over a few days to significantly reduce the impact of these disturbing memories or experiences in your day-to-day life. One significant benefit of an intensive is that it gives you the flexibility to dedicate time to the healing work you need.

With fewer interruptions between sessions, you will feel more continuity and stability, making it easier to process difficult things and release what’s been holding you back. It’s like being able to unburden your mind more completely than what would be possible in a standard 50- or 90-minute session. The focused nature of the work allows for more profound, lasting change, and many clients leave feeling more at peace, lighter, and clear-thinking.

If you’re interested in learning more, please get in touch with me on June 1, 2025, for more information on the EMDR Intensive I will offer!