EMDR stands for Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing. EMDR is a reprocessing therapy internationally recognized as an effective intervention for the treatment of past trauma.In layman terms, it is a type of therapy that will help you heal from bad experiences, whether that be recently or the distant past.

What are “bad experiences?”
Well, that can vary from discovering your purse or wallet was stolen or your vehicle vandalized to something bigger, like   witnessing a fatal shooting or experiencing life threatening situation.

Here are a few pretend examples
John came to me for EMDR to address his self-doubt, poor self-esteem, and social anxiety that was bothering him due to many years of bullying he experienced in high school.

Jane contacted my office for EMDR sessions to address when she was molested as child by a member of her family. In our work together, we were also able to process her negative family experiences related to her family member and dismissive attitude from her mother  throughout her childhood.

You, like many people, may have had a bad experience that impacted you emotionally. You may have started to have “negative symptoms,” such as feeling distracted, poor sleep, bad memories, nightmares, feelings of guilt, or your body “jumps” when a door slams. The list goes on and on and on and is very personal.
Why would you not want to get rid of these negative symptoms? These symptoms suck and often lead to you having a hard time staying focused at work, feeling disconnected from your friends and family, and may cause problems for you at work and in other areas in your life.
Thanks to EMDR, the miserableness of these symptoms can be addressed in an eight-step process that will help you move past the bad experience while helping relieving yourself of the negative symptoms.

While we work together using EMDR, I will help you to understand the connection between the bad experience and your negative symptoms.
After drawing the connection, I will guide you through the EMDR process to reprocess the bad experience in a safe manner where you can talk about it without becoming overwhelmed.
Throughout the process, I will be present, patient, and allow you to guide the pace to ensure processing is completed. In the end, we will work together to transform the meaning of these experiences so that you will feel, be, and have a different, healthier, and more adaptive perspective to move past what has been holding you back.

In our work together using EMDR, I will help you to better understand the connection between the bad experience and your negative symptoms.
After drawing the connection, I will guide you through the EMDR process to reprocess the bad experience in a safe manner where you can talk about it without becoming overwhelmed.
Throughout the process, I will be present, patient, and allow you to guide the pace to ensure processing is completed. In the end, we will work together to transform the meaning of these experiences so that you will feel, be, and have a different, healthier, and more adaptive perspective to move past what has been holding you back.

As part of my training, I had to go through EMDR on my own as a client and can confidently assure you from my own experience: this process works.
In addition to my own experience, EMDR has been evaluated in more than 20 studies that have demonstrated over and over that it is an effective treatment for depression, anxiety, trauma, grief, chronic pain, and other obstacles with which you are struggling and are affecting your mental health.