Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) therapy is an extensively researched, effective psychotherapy method proven to help people recover from trauma and other distressing life experiences, including PTSD, anxiety, depression, OCD, addiction, and panic disorder.

EMDR does not require discussing the distressing issue or completing homework between sessions. It focuses on changing the emotions, thoughts, or behaviors resulting from the distressing issue, allow the brain to resume its natural process.

EMDR therapy is designed to resolve unprocessed traumatic memories in the brain.  For many clients EMDR therapy can be completed in fewer sessions that other psychotherapies.

Our brains have a natural way to recover from traumatic memories and events. This process involves communication between the amygdala (the alarm signal for stressful events), the hippocampus (which assists with learning, including memories about safety and danger), and the prefrontal cortex (which analyzes and controls behavior and emotion). While many times traumatic experiences can be managed and resolved spontaneously, they may not be processed without help.

Stress responses are part of our natural fight, flight, or freeze instincts. When distress from a disturbing event remains, the upsetting images, thoughts, and emotions may create an overwhelming feeling of being back in that moment, or of being “frozen in time.” EMDR therapy helps the brain process these memories, and allows normal healing to resume. The experience is still remembered, but the fight, flight, or freeze response from the original event is resolved.

EMDR can treat a variety of conditons to include: PTSD and other trauma and stress-related issues, anxiety, depression, grief and loss, performance anxiety, sleep disturbance, violence and abuse, eating disorders, dissociative disorders, sexual assault, substance abuse

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