EMDR
What is EMDR?
Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) is simple, powerful, well-studied, and effective. With it, we heal horrible, haunting, memories; strengthen your confidence; and increase your overall well being.
Activate your brain’s natural capacity to release traumatic memories and calm emotional overreactions.
Get Emotionally Unstuck. Calm negative memories. Feel free.
How does it work?
Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR)
EMDR helps you get unstuck. It appears to have a direct effect of turning on your ability to think while actually in the midst of an emotional reaction. In our work together, we call up the old negative emotional reaction, and with EMDR, the blocked information processing is resumed. You realize that the threat is in the past, and that the biggest problem you are experiencing is the emotional reaction that gets triggered when the memory is activated. So following a successful EMDR session, you no longer relive the images, sounds, and feelings when a traumatic event is brought to mind. You still remember what happened, but it is often much less upsetting. Many types of therapy have similar goals. However, EMDR appears to be similar to what occurs naturally during dreaming or REM (rapid eye movement) sleep. Therefore, EMDR can be thought of as a physiologically based therapy that activates you inner ability to calm disturbing memories in a new and less distressing way.