About EMDR Therapy

EMDR - healing through the eyes

I am a Certified EMDR Therapist and a member of EMDRIA (EMDR International Association). Through my EMDR work, I have seen many people overcome debilitating effects of multiple kinds of trauma and return to peace and health. In those it is best suited for, I have found EMDR can be a more rapid path to healing than other forms of therapy.

EMDR - Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing

If you wish to discuss EMDR therapy with me, or feel ready to see what healing it might bring to your circumstances, please contact me.

Read about my experience with EMDR trauma process groups.

Who can benefit from EMDR therapy?

EMDR therapy helps children and adults with a wide range of challenges:
• Anxiety, panic attacks, and phobias
• Chronic Illness and medical issues
• Depression and bipolar disorders
• Dissociative disorders
• Eating disorders
• Grief and loss
• Pain
• Performance anxiety
• Personality disorders
• PTSD and other trauma and stress related issues
• Sexual assault
• Sleep disturbance
• Substance abuse and addiction
• Violence and abuse

How Does EMDR Work?

W hen we go through something painful or traumatic, our brains can have difficulty processing or ‘digesting’ the experience. The painful memory can become stuck in our memory network along with the sensory information from when the experience happened. This is why certain smells, sights, textures and tastes may bring back the memory of that experience in a very clear and disturbing way. Even if it happened years ago, it can feel as if it happened today.
EMDR helps to “unlock” those disturbing memories and experiences through Bi-Lateral Stimulation (BLS). BLS can take many forms, including side-to-side eye movements, tones, tapping and/or tactile ‘pulsers’. By alternating stimulation of both hemispheres of the brain, new insights often occur as the issues become unstuck, allowing the us to make sense of them. This allows us to have one foot in the past and one foot in the present while remaining safe and in control.
The memories don't disappear, but our relationship to them will likely change. They will feel less scary and painful in mind and body. Unlike talk therapy, the insights gained in EMDR therapy result not so much from a therapists interpretation, but from our own accelerated intellectual and emotional processes. We conclude EMDR therapy feeling empowered by the very experiences that once made us feel helpless against them. Wounds have not merely closed, they have transformed.

Video Introduction to EMDR

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