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What is EMDR?

Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) is a powerful and effective therapy for the treatment of trauma. EMDR therapy incorporates eye movements or other bilateral stimulation into a comprehensive approach that processes and releases information trapped in the mind and body, freeing people from disturbing images and body sensations, debilitating emotions, and restrictive beliefs. This revolutionary therapy has helped millions of clients of all ages recover from such traumas as childhood abuse, accidents, assaults, and natural disasters. EMDR has been extensively researched as a treatment for post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), and is considered to be an evidence-based therapy.

In addition to the treatment of PTSD, EMDR is also used to treat the psychological effects of smaller traumas that manifest in symptoms of depression, anxiety, phobias, low self-esteem, creativity blocks, and relationship difficulties. Not only does healing occur much more rapidly than in traditional therapy, but as a result of EMDR’s clearing of emotional and physical blockages, many people also experience a sense of joy, openness, and deep connection with others. EMDR is a quantum leap in the human ability to heal trauma and maladaptive beliefs.

EMDR has helped millions of clients recover from trauma.

In treating trauma, we use a variety of therapeutic modalities to help clients access and process traumatic memories. It is well documented that we hold onto traumatic memories in our bodies. A triggering memory can cause rapid heartbeat, tightness in our chests and stomach, and discomfort in other parts of the body. 

Somatic techniques like EMDR tend to yield better, faster results than talk therapy alone. Clients who don’t have the words to describe the connection between their depression or anxiety and past or current trauma can describe what their body is feeling. They don’t even have to tell the therapist what their body is feeling. Clients often make profound discoveries just by sitting quietly and observing the internal connection between what their body is feeling and their thoughts.

This is how we learned that for most people with marginalized Core Identity Factors™, trauma is deeply intertwined with core identity. Clients would surprise themselves and their therapist by making observations that linked their depression and anxiety to experiences associated with their race, ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation, disability, poverty, and other characteristics.

When there is a disconnect between how society sees a person and how the person sees their authentic self, this discomfort is often felt in the body. We have had success with using brain-body therapies like EMDR to help clients have significant “Ah ha!” moments and heal from identity-based trauma.

 Learn More About EMDR Therapy.

You may believe therapy can help you but you still have questions about EMDR & Trauma therapy.

  • Attachment-focused EMDR (AF-EMDR) is client-centered and emphasizes a reparative therapeutic relationship using a combination of (1) Resource Tapping™ (Parnell, 2008) to strengthen clients and repair developmental deficits, (2) EMDR to process traumas, and (3) talk therapy to help integrate the information from EMDR sessions and to provide the healing derived from therapist-client interactions.

    AF-EMDR extends the use and benefits of EMDR and bilateral stimulation for use with clients who have been typically less responsive to traditional EMDR protocols, due to acute or chronic relational trauma and attachment deficits. Those deficits include the effects of childhood physical or sexual abuse, neglect, early losses, birth trauma, medical trauma, parental drug or alcohol abuse, caregiver mis-attunement, secondary trauma, and the cumulative effects of all. These clients often present in therapy as depressed, with relationship difficulties or problems at work. They don’t feel fully alive. Childhood trauma has impacted their sense of safety and capacity to form close emotional relationships in adulthood.

  • EMDR has proven to be effective in treating several kinds of trauma, including:

    • childhood abuse

    • losing a parent at a young age

    • bullying

    • natural disaster

    • refugee trauma

    • sexual abuse

    • domestic violence or criminal violence

    • war

    • identity-based trauma

  • Yes, EMDR can be effective in a virtual setting. Prior to the Covid pandemic, most clinicians believed that EMDR had to be done in person. However, necessity is the mother of invention. During the pandemic, demand for trauma therapy skyrocketed, and clinicians figured out how to adapt to a virtual therapy setting.

    Our lead therapist Desyree Dixon is an EMDR trainer. She and her team continued to meet the demand for training during the pandemic (2020 to date) by offering virtual workshops. She and her team have trained more trauma therapists globally during this period than any other trainers. She has extensive experience adapting EMDR therapy to a virtual environment and it has proven just as effective.

EMDR Therapy can help you heal.

We believe you have the ability to heal. Contact us today to schedule a free 15-minute phone call for us to discuss how we can help you.