We provide EMDR therapy to help you move forward after difficult experiences, such as social pressures, loss of loved ones, chronic illness, sexual abuse and witnessing stressful events. Trauma can also include ongoing exposure to a caregiver with mental health struggles or substance use, or exposure to a high level of parental control or criticism. EMDR is an evidenced-based intervention where we use bilateral movement (tapping, buzzers or eye movements) to help you process through traumatic material in a quicker way than traditional talk therapy.

HOW IT WORKS

During EMDR, you stay conscious and in the present (we say keep “one foot in the therapy room, and one foot in the past”). When we experience hard things, traumatic memory is stored in your body memory, cognitive (thinking) memory, and emotional memory. When we talk about the traumatic event, oftentimes we do not process what we felt in our bodies when the trauma happened (for example, racing heart or stomach ache). Using bilateral movement helps process through this traumatic material using all channels of processing, in an adaptive way. 

It is essential that during EMDR you feel safe and supported by your therapist, and your therapist will always guide you and check in with you during processing. You are in control of the work, and your therapist is there is a guide and support to you.