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EMDR
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 and depression.
EMDR therapy is designed to resolve unprocessed traumatic memories in the brain. 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 feelings of overwhelm, 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.
Individual Psychotherapy
As your therapist your goals are my goals. I want to help you address the issues that are most important to you. I look forward to helping you connect to your greater sense of self, personal strength and resilience. I strive to provide a confidential, safe environment where you can explore, without judgement, the areas of life where you feel stuck. My approach is warm, empathetic and informal. I am passionate about helping others heal from past trauma. While we can't change the past, we can heal and move from surviving to thriving.
Somatic Experiencing
Traumatic experiences, whether a major life event such as abuse, neglect, accidents or more subtle emotional injuries leave their mark on the nervous system. Trauma is stored in the body and is most effectively healed with the body in mind. Often people who have undergone an adverse experience may have symptoms such as anxiety, depression, PTSD, dissociation, and chronic pain.
Somatic Experiencing is a body-oriented approach to healing trauma and other stress disorders. The SE approach releases traumatic shock which is key to transforming the PTSD and the wounds of emotional and early developmental attachment trauma.
SE offers a framework to assess where a person is stuck in fight, flight, or freeze response and provides clinical tools to release energy bound in the body at the time of trauma.
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