EMDR therapy
Therapy with me isn’t about choosing the “right” modality from a menu. Most of our work will involve talking, exploring patterns, making connections, building skills, and getting curious about what’s happening underneath the things that brought you to therapy. When it makes sense for you and what we’re working on, EMDR can become another piece of that work.
I integrate EMDR into therapy as a way to help us work with experiences, memories, beliefs, or emotional responses that may feel difficult to shift through talking alone. It doesn’t have to become the focus of every session, and you don’t have to come to therapy already knowing whether you want EMDR. We can decide together whether it might be useful as our work unfolds.
what is EMDR therapy?
EMDR stands for Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing. It is a trauma therapy that can help the brain process experiences that continue to feel emotionally “stuck,” even when you logically know that they are in the past. Those experiences don’t always have to be one obvious traumatic event—they can also include painful relationship experiences, rejection, shame, religious experiences, or moments that shaped what you came to believe about yourself.
If we decide to incorporate EMDR, I’ll help you understand what we’re doing and why, and we’ll move at a pace that feels appropriate for you. EMDR is still part of our larger therapeutic relationship—not a separate treatment happening outside of everything else we’ve been exploring together.
You can learn more about EMDR here or through these two informative videos (1 & 2).