Breaking the chains of anxiety and trauma
EMDR Therapy
I help people recover from emotional and psychological traumas. My clients have found that the troubling events, anxiety, or memories can change! I have worked with childhood trauma, military trauma, intimate partner betrayals, panic attacks, concussion/brain injury, and more. EMDR has been the most transformative therapy that I have learned in my career. I have witnessed deep changes in my clients after our work.
Every Journey Needs a Light
EMDR Therapy Intensives (and working intensely with EMDR)
Skip the waitlist and focus on attending to your trauma or difficult experience through our new offering for EMDR intensives for trauma.
- Perhaps you’ve been struggling to find a trauma therapist who has the training and skills to meet your needs.
- You’ve been putting off doing this work due to time commitments.
- You are someone who is a focused individual you need to set time aside to JUST deal with your trauma.
- You need help right now and can’t wait weeks or months to deal with this problem.
- You are exhausted, drained and feel isolated with these symptoms are ready to get the support you need to deal with your trauma.
EMDR is a trauma therapy that assists your body understanding that the event that happened in your past is not happening right now. For brain injury survivors this is can be your actual brain injury event. For many of my clients I’ve seen wonderful changes and healing from their trauma work. I’m also amazed by the insights, resources, and peace that comes out of the work.
EMDR is a great therapy for academic job performance, anxiety, as well as distressing relationships, NOT just trauma.
Is EMDR right for me?
It may be right for you if you:
- Are able to perform your daily activities of living and self-care.
- You have good supports in your life to manage the distress that an intensive may bring. You have several people that you can talk with and possibly a therapist whom you already work with on a regular basis.
- You generally are able to tolerate distress in your life but this trauma causes notable distress and emotional difficulties for you.
It may be right for you if you:
Why EMDR Therapy?
EMDR or Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) therapist is an extensively, researched and effect psychotherapy proven to help people recover from trauma and other distressing life experiences. Including PTSD which many of my brain injury clients have from their injury. It is endorsed by national groups such as the American Psychological Association, VA, and so many more. As stated on EMDRIA’s website: Department of Veterans Affairs & Department of Defense (2017). VA/DoD Clinical Practice Guideline for the Management of Post-Traumatic Stress. Washington, DC: Veterans Health Administration, Department of Veterans Affairs and Health Affairs, Department of Defense.
EMDR was given the highest level of recommendation and placed in the category of three “trauma-focused psychotherapies with the strongest evidence from clinical trials. This “A” category is described as “A strong recommendation that clinicians provide the intervention to eligible patients. Good evidence was found that the intervention improves important health outcomes and concludes that benefits substantially outweigh harm.”
What We’ll Do:
Our First Session
- In that session, I will talk to you about your history and any concerns about starting EMDR (I offer intensives and weekly 90 min sessions (working intensely)
- We’ll make a plan for the memories that you’d like to target in your sessions
- We’ll end with safety and breathing.
- I’ll provide a workbook for our time together for notes and the relaxation exercises we utilize.
When we meet for our appointments or an intensive:
- I’ll start with a resourcing session to establish the necessary tools for our work like calm place and identifying nurturing figures, etc.
- We'll discuss a plan for intensive services or weekly 90 min sessions. Please contact us for a break down for trauma intensives.
- We’ll end with a resourcing exercise to combine all of the resources you gain in your work.
I will coordinate with your ongoing therapist.
What to expect after therapy
While I cannot guarantee and outcome, my clients have told me that they feel remarkably better, and wished they would have started the work earlier!
- As stated on EMDRIA’s site: the number of sessions depends upon the specific problem and client history. However, repeated controlled studies have shown that a single trauma can be processed within 3 sessions in 80-90% of the participants.
- In a controlled study, 80% of multiple civilian trauma victims no longer had PTSD after approximately 6 hours of treatment.
- A study of combat veterans reported that after 12 sessions 77% no longer had post-traumatic stress disorder.
