Short Version:

• EMDR helps you to regain control over the way in which past experiences define (or don’t define!) your life, thus freeing you to become a more authentic and at peace version of yourself.

Longer Version:

• EMDR is an empirically validated treatment for trauma-related disorders, although evidence shows that it also has dramatic impacts on addressing the impacts of “Little T” traumas and negative life experiences as well.

• EMDR therapists look to address presently occurring issues in people’s lives by:

  • First: Building awareness of how negative past experiences are stored in our minds in terms of how they have shaped how we think and feel about ourselves and the world.

  • Second: Helping you to reprocess these memories into something that is more adaptive. Meaning that EMDR helps clients to both acknowledge and also push past more negative assumptions about a memory’s meaning in order to gain access to the more realistic and balanced ways of thinking about ourselves that our brains are designed to do.

  • Third: Reinstalling memories into our minds with these new perspectives so that they may begin to naturally and lastingly reshape a person’s thoughts, emotions, and behaviors