EMDR Therapy
Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) is a form of therapy that utilizes the brain’s natural capacity to heal.
- Designed to alleviate distress associated with traumatic memories
- Extensive talking and detail about traumatic events are NOT required for healing
- Helpful for a variety of conditions such as PTSD, anxiety, depression, phobias, and more.
EMDR is a structured form of therapy that aims to help individuals integrate and shift traumatic memories, adverse past experiences, as well as unhelpful negative self-beliefs that may be keeping you stuck.
Unfortunately, with trauma, big or small, the brain can become overwhelmed which blocks the brain’s adaptive processing sequence, resulting in a breakdown of the natural healing process. This is where clients can begin to feel really stuck, and like no matter what they have done or how they have tried to move forward, something keeps bringing them back to the past.
Imagine there is a splinter in your finger and it is stuck under the skin. What would you do? Would you leave it there?
What would happen next if you didn’t get it out?
Since our bodies have a natural tendency to want to heal, the skin would begin to heal over the splinter, but since it is a foreign object that doesn’t belong it would continue to fester and become painful.
The brain and the body both try to move toward healing, but things may get
stuck
Blocking the natural healing process
The only way to have your finger heal properly, and resolve the pain that you experience anytime something touches on that area, is to go in and remove the splinter.
Once the block is removed, healing can continue
We heal ourselves psychologically in much the same way. Although you may not always feel the “splinter”, when your information processing system is blocked or imbalanced from a disturbing event, the emotional wound continues to fester and cause tremendous pain and suffering
EMDR works to remove the block or “splinter” by helping you activate your brain’s natural healing processes.
Rather then speaking to the rational and reasoning part of your brain, EMDR works on a more neurological level to target and foster the brain’s ability to naturally heal. This type of neurological processing will allow your brain to keep what is important and let go of what is unnecessary or no longer serving you.
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