Sometimes talk-therapy just Doesn’t cut it

EMDR is a highly effective, evidence-based type of therapy for processing traumas or distressing life events. EMDR targets the distress and symptoms associated with it, utilizing your brain’s natural healing tendencies.

People often turn to EMDR therapy for one of two reasons:

• They’ve heard it works and want to start with EMDR when they start therapy
• They’ve been getting “stuck” in talk therapy – and want to turn to EMDR to get them “unstuck”

What is EMDR therapy?

EMDR stands for Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing. It’s a holistic therapy – activating thoughts, emotions, and body sensations that are associated with a particular memory that has “stuck around” and continues to negatively impact your life.

Sometimes when painful or traumatic events are occurring, the brain does not process the information in the same way it does during non-traumatic events. The painful experiences and associated emotions, feelings, and body sensations can become “stuck,” resulting in adverse emotions and symptoms. This often happens because of the body’s “flight, flight, or freeze” response. Essentially, the brain goes into survival mode and becomes so overloaded that the event isn’t fully processed. This results in lingering feelings of powerlessness, shame, fear, or other emotions that tend to wear on you.