EMDR Therapy

Keeps Coming Back with a Vengeance

There is something from the past that never seems to go away.

Something triggers that experience – ushering in all those old feelings and causing you to relive the pain. It keeps festering like an open wound.

Your response may result from past trauma, sexual abuse, loss of a loved one, a phobia, or some other problem.

All you know is that time has not healed this injury.

Proven Trauma Treatment

One of the most effective forms of individual therapy is EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing) therapy. In 1989, Francine Shapiro, Ph.D. introduced EMDR as a psychotherapy treatment originally designed to lower the distress associated with traumatic memories.

In a nutshell, let’s look at how it works. When you revisit painful feelings AND stimulate the sides of your brain through one of your senses (sight, sound, or touch), your brain mimics a rapid eye movement pattern like it does when you’re asleep (REM sleep).

And study after study has shown that this helps take away the sting of those challenging experiences or fears.

Healing is Quick – Not Prolonged.

EMDR accelerates your body’s and mind’s natural ability to heal, just as your body recovers from a cut or scrape.

There is a common misconception that traumatic healing takes years and years. While any injury can carry long-term effects if not put back into place properly (like a broken bone or large/deep cuts, etc.), a Doctor’s job is to put the pieces back together well enough so that the body may correctly do the healing.

EMDR is the process in which we put the pieces together so that the brain can finally heal and let go of the big emotions we carry with us that get stuck.

EMDR has broad application.

EMDR is a winning approach to treat a wide variety of mental injuries and illnesses: Panic Attacks, Complicated Grief, Dissociative Disorders, Disturbing Memories, Phobias, Pain Disorders, Performance Anxiety, Stress Reduction, Addictions, Sexual and/or Physical Abuse, Body Dysmorphic Disorders, and OCD.

And many more!

There is hope for you!

You can finally find long-lasting relief. Ask for an appointment with one of our trained EMDR therapists and get the help you deserve.

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