EMDR Therapy

Eye Movement Desensitization Reprocessing Therapy

Notice that.

“EMDR is a bizarre and wondrous treatment and anybody who first hears about it, myself included, thinks this is pretty hokey and strange. It's something invented by Francine Shapiro who found that, if you move your eyes from side to side as you think about distressing memories, that the memories lose their power.”

CHA CHING! and it does just that!

Quick facts about EMDR:

  • EMDR helps repairs our sense of safety and connection/trust that gets dysregulated with life experiences and trauma

  • EMDR is not only for trauma, but can be used for almost any problem/issue

  • EMDR has 8 phases which are history and treatment planning, preparation, assessment, installation, body scan, closure

  • EMDR helps memories get UNSTUCK, and allow for them to be fully reprocessed and be integrated into the system

  • Goals of EMDR: affective distress is relieved, negative beliefs are reformulated, and physiological arousal is reduced.

  • EMDR takes into consideration our WHOLE body and mind (physiological and psychological responses), and our own bodies ability to heal (as it does if you were to fall and scrape your knee)

  • EMDR can be used in conjunction with any other therapy/talk therapy, which means you are allowed to work with 2 psychotherapists at the same time, 1 for primary treatment, and then EMDR is seen as a specialty treatment with a specific focus.