EMDR for Trauma Healing
Your Story Matters
Trauma occurs when a distressing experience is more than we are meant to endure. This can include betrayals, neglect or abandonment, emotional abuse, and various threats to your physical and emotional safety.
Therapy creates space for you to heal from the physical and emotional weight of traumatic memories. Trauma healing is collaborative, giving you the agency to move at a pace that feels safe for you.
Trauma therapy includes coping skills so you are empowered to handle emotions as they resurface, somatic therapy techniques that help you to feel safe in your body, and exposure treatments that decrease various symptoms of PTSD.
EMDR for Trauma Healing
Do you ever logically understand that a past event was not your fault, but you still feel emotionally overwhelmed by the memory?
Those are the moments when I recommend trauma therapy using EMDR.
EMDR stands for “Eye-Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing” (luckily you don’t have to remember that!). It is an extensively researched intervention that helps our minds to process our memories, shift our old negative beliefs, and move towards healing.
Why do I love EMDR?
Research shows that we need to stay present in both our minds and our bodies in order to heal. Traditional talk therapy may not be the best fit for trauma healing.
EMDR decreases the intensely negative charge of trauma memories, often in a brief amount of time. I’ve both witnessed and experienced profound healing using EMDR. Using this method, clients are able to stay safely embodied and to create new meaning out of past events.
I have completed advanced training in Attachment-Focused EMDR, and frequently work with clients on complex childhood trauma including abandonment, emotional and psychological abuse, and physical or sexual abuse.
