EMDR
EMDR therapy—short for Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing—is a psychotherapy approach designed to help people process and heal from traumatic or distressing experiences. It’s especially known for its effectiveness in treating PTSD, though it’s also used for anxiety, depression, phobias, and more.
Trauma is not the event itself — it is the impact of that event on your inner world, your nervous system, your psyche. It’s the moment your body and mind go into survival mode, disconnecting from your emotions, your needs, your true self in order to cope. It is the wound that gets buried deep within, where the pain goes unacknowledged, repressed, or split off, but shapes everything moving forward in both conscious and unconscious ways.
Trauma is a deep disconnection—not just from others, but from the very core of ourselves. When we are triggered, it's like a door opens to a past wound that hasn’t fully been met, a place in us where the pain is still alive, still waiting to be acknowledged. We can feel it in our bodies—tightness, fear, urgency—and our emotional reactions become disproportionate, because we’re not just responding to what's in front of us; we’re responding to the unfinished business of our past.
EMDR offers a way to gently guide the nervous system back to safety. Through the rhythmic, bilateral stimulation, EMDR helps us to release the grip trauma has on our body and psyche, allowing the stored emotions and memories to surface, be felt, and ultimately be integrated. It’s like giving the body the chance to complete the incomplete—to process what was too overwhelming in the moment so that it no longer dominates the present. Through this process, we
create a new relationship with the past, one that allows us to live more freely and respond with awareness, rather than reaction.
Healing is about returning to a place of presence, where we can feel the hurt but no longer be consumed by it.
EYE MOVEMENT DESENSITIZATION AND REPROCESSING THERAPY
Processing is where we go back in time to the experience and use a specific eight step protocol to walk you through healing anything leftover from that time, whether that is somatic sensations, emotions, or limiting core beliefs.
Resourcing allows us to build adaptive networks within you so that you have safe places and safe people inside of you prior to processing. The first component of resourcing is taking you through exercises in order to create anchors of safety for you to use throughout processing, as well as throughout your entire life.
RESOURCING
PROCCESSING
EMDR is to be done in conjunction with multiple coaching sessions in order to assess ego stability, containment capacity and the development of an internal landscape that acts as a starting and ending point to processing .
What to expect Pre Session:
A good candidate for EMDR is someone with specific traumas or limiting beliefs, emotional readiness, a support system and ability to self-regulate. It is ideal for those wanting deeply focused support around specific barriers.
Who are good candidates for intensives?
Common Questions
Can this be covered by insurance?
We are not accepting nor at liberty to take insurance for this service.
EMDR is something we do in conjunction to consulting sessions, which are $250/1.5 hours. Each session aims to build ego stability, development containment of self and inner resources and then begin processing desired targets.
What are examples of a 'target'?
Specific memories that hold emotional charge, phobias, and essentially any stored image related to a negative core (NC) belief. An example of a NC is 'I am not safe,' or 'I am weak,' or 'I am abandoned.' These NCs are often maladaptive to growth because they are not metabolized adaptively.
