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EMDR Therapy
Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) Therapy:
Healing Trauma & Restoring Hope
Are you finding it difficult to move past the lingering effects of trauma, anxiety, or chronic stress? Whether your issues stem from childhood trauma and abuse or you have more recent incidents, these issues can be deeply held in your nervous system, then get triggered over and over, affecting your overall quality of life, relationships, and daily functioning.
I offer a client-centred, compassionate and somatic-based Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) designed to facilitate the emotional and felt-sense healing you are needing to help you resolve trauma symptoms, build more affirming beliefs and self-compassion and regain control over your well-being.
How EMDR Therapy Works
​EMDR therapy uses bilateral stimulation (BLS) to facilitate the processing of distressing memories and current struggles that cause dysregulation in your nervous system. During sessions, you focus on a troubling memory or stress target while simultaneously experiencing rhythmic, alternating stimuli, such as guided eye movements, shoulder taps, or auditory tones/music.
Focusing on both the target and the BLS, provides dual engagement that helps reprocess and integrate the memory or current stress issue, reducing its emotional charge and promoting healthier, adaptive responses. The bilateral stimulation aids in accessing and reorganizing the brain’s memory networks, enabling you to process past experiences more effectively and build emotional resilience.
My Approach
I offer a relational and client-centered approach to EMDR therapy that prioritizes your unique needs and pacing. I believe in creating a therapeutic environment where you feel heard, understood, and supported every step of the way. I follow the best guidelines for trauma recovery and work with a Phased approach to trauma therapy. This includes a skilled assessment of your stabilization ability and readiness for re-processing to ensure you have a positive experience of EMDR and be able to feel the benefits of true transformation and recovery.
My approach is deeply rooted in a strong background in psychodynamic therapy and child state work, so we can explore and find relief from childhood wounding with sensitivity and depth.
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Additionally, I hold certification in Sensorimotor Psychotherapy, a somatic body-mind therapy which accesses the wisdom of the body for nervous system regulation and to enhance the effectiveness of EMDR.
This combined expertise enables me to tailor our sessions to your individual journey, fostering true recovery of a stable, resilient, confident self through a compassionate and responsive therapeutic relationship.
The Key Stages of EMDR Therapy Treatment
1. Understanding Your Experience: First, we work together to create a safe and supportive space where you can openly discuss your experiences and feelings. We then explore what current targets you have (current issues and struggles that you want to see change).
2. A Phased approach - Phase 1 Enhance Nervous System Stabilization: We collaborate together to understand how stable your nervous system is and check your readiness to do reprocessing work. Depending on your unique capacity, we create an effective treatment plan of somatic resourcing to teach your body to stay regulated within the window of tolerance.
3. Phase 2 - Deepen into the root cause: When ready, we proceed to the next phase of treatment, where we work together to identify the specific memories and beliefs that are causing you distress.
4. Processing Memories or Incidents: Using gentle, guided eye movements or other forms of bilateral stimulation, EMDR helps your brain reprocess and integrate these troubling memories. This process helps reduce the emotional intensity associated with these memories, allowing you to view them from a new, less distressing perspective.
5. Rebuilding and Reframing: As you work through these memories, your adaptive processing brain and inner wisdom will replace negative beliefs with healthier, more positive ones. This helps shift your responses and reactions, fostering a greater sense of emotional stability and self-confidence.
6. Moving Forward: EMDR therapy not only addresses past traumas but also equips you with tools to manage stress and anxiety in the present. Our goal is to help you develop resilience and reclaim a sense of control over your life.
Throughout this journey, I will provide guidance and support tailored to your unique needs, ensuring that you feel understood and empowered every step of the way. With EMDR therapy, you truly can experience the profound power of healing from within and embrace a future filled with greater peace and a greater ability to navigate life with deepened connection to your Wise Mind.
The Transformative Benefits of EMDR Therapy
EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing) therapy offers a evidence supported, structure path toward healing and growth.
1. Healing PTSD, Childhood Trauma, Complex-PTSD
EMDR helps you gently process and heal from traumatic memories that may be causing activation or distress now. By getting to the root cause and helping you process and diminish the intensity of intrusive memories, EMDR can bring a sense of calm and control back into your life, find peace and move forward with renewed strength.
2. Swift Relief from Distress
Many individuals find that EMDR brings relief from troubling symptoms relatively quickly, offering an alternative to talk therapy.
3. Supported by Strong Evidence
EMDR is backed by solid research and endorsed by leading health organizations, including the World Health Organization and the American Psychological Association. This makes it a trusted and effective choice for many seeking relief.
4. A Gentle Approach to Healing
EMDR primarily uses eye movements and other forms of bilateral stimulation, offering a gentle, non-invasive way to address your concerns without the need for medication or extensive exploration.
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6. Greater Emotional Balance
As EMDR addresses the core of your emotional challenges, it supports you in managing your feelings more effectively, fostering a sense of emotional stability and resilience.
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7. Gaining Insight and Boosting Self-Esteem
Through the reprocessing and shifting of negative beliefs, EMDR can helping you gain insight, deeper awareness of yourself and nurture a healthier self-image and enhance your self-esteem, empowering you to see yourself in a more positive light.
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9. Versatile and Effective for Multiple Issues
Whether you’re dealing with a recent single incident trauma, a history of childhood neglect and abuse, current anxiety struggles or other emotional challenges, EMDR is versatile and can provide support across a range of issues, helping you navigate and overcome various difficulties.
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10. Reclaiming Your Life
EMDR helps you take back control of your life, shifts limiting beliefs and creates a new, affirming narrative. By working through your past struggles and resolving current issues, you can alleviate symptoms, engage more fully in the world, have deeper relationships and open up to a future filled with hope, joy, and a renewed sense of purpose.
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Ready To Begin?
​Feel free to book online or reach out with any questions you may have. Book online below or Contact me today and I will be in touch within two business days.
I offer a free 20min online meet and greet to give you a chance to meet and go over any questions.
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I look forward to meeting you.
