Eye Movement Desensitization & Reprocessing (EMDR) is an evidence-based therapy to help recover from traumatic stress, anxiety, and depression.

With EMDR, we will access your brain in a way that it can heal itself naturally. You won’t be required to talk in detail about distressing memories or experiences and there rarely is homework assigned between sessions.

You won’t lose memories by doing EMDR, but how you think about yourself and the traumatic situations may shift. You may replace negative beliefs such as “I am worthless”, “I’m a failure”, or “I can’t trust my own decisions” with positive, preferred beliefs that may drastically reshape how you see yourself and the world in which we live.

EMDR follows a three-prong healing process addressing past memories, present stressors, and future actions.

To prepare for this healing process, clinicians guide clients through 8 phases including history and treatment planning, preparation, assessment, desensitization, installation, body scan, closure, and re-evaluation.

Clients may identify multiple “targets”, or negative beliefs or memories. Clinicians help clients to desensitize and reprocess one target at a time, following the three-prong healing process and 8 phases with each target.

EMDR can be a powerful, freeing, healing experience. I am trained in EMDR and have been practicing this therapy approach for over 3 years.

I believe it is important for counselors to know what it is like to “be on the couch” side of therapy. Therefore, I have participated in EMDR as a client and know what the process can feel like as well as how transformative the experience can be.

Having both personal and professional experience with EMDR drives me to be a safe and effective EMDR therapist.