What is EMDR?

Discover How EMDR Can Restore Your Emotional Health

If you’re feeling stuck with negative emotions or past experiences that continue to upset you, EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing) offers a way forward. Unlike traditional therapies that primarily use conversation to seek solutions, EMDR facilitates healing through a structured approach that helps the mind and body heal from psychological trauma. By activating both sides of the brain through eye movements or other bilateral stimulations, EMDR helps "unlock" and process stuck memories and/or emotions. This allows you to integrate these experiences properly and reduce their ongoing impact, essentially helping the brain to reset its emotional distress.

 

Why Choose EMDR?

EMDR therapy stands out because it doesn’t just aim to treat symptoms or manage distress. Instead, it gets to the root of the problem. While traditional talk therapy involves analyzing the causes of your distress and the feelings around them, EMDR therapy helps the brain to reprocess emotions, memories and beliefs itself, changing how it’s stored and thus reducing its negative effects. It’s particularly effective for those who find it hard to articulate their experiences or for whom talking about the past has not been enough.

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What Can EMDR Help With?

EMDR therapy is versatile and effective for treating a wide array of psychological stresses:

• PTSD and Complex PTSD

• Anxiety, panic attacks, and phobias

• Depression

• Stress-related concerns

• Avoidant, Anxious or Fearful attachment styles

• Substance misuse and behavioral addictions

• Grief and loss

• Anger management

• Chronic illness and medical issues

• Pain conditions

• Experiences of violence and abuse

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Our Expertise and Certification

Our team is fully trained and certified in EMDR through the EMDR International Association (EMDRIA), a professional association that sets the standards for EMDR practice and training. EMDRIA certification means that our therapists have completed rigorous training and have a high level of expertise in the EMDR method, ensuring that you receive the highest standard of care.

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Learn More and Get Started

Interested in learning how EMDR can help you specifically? We invite you to explore our detailed content on EMDR and trauma, which explains more about this therapy and its benefits. You can check out blogs that outline the specifics of this type of therapy here.

 

If you’re ready to take the first step towards healing, reach out to us for a free consultation. Let’s discuss how EMDR therapy can be tailored to your needs and start you on the path to recovery.