EMDR & Trauma Therapy

Your traumatic experience is personal.

Trauma defines the body and the brain of the person who lived the traumatic event.

Nobody gets to say that your experience or experiences shouldn’t be causing you distress.

Bessel van der Kolk, psychiatrist, researcher, and author, writes in The Body Keeps the Score – “We have learned that trauma is not just an event that took place sometime in the past; it is also the imprint left by that experience on mind, brain, and body.”

Trauma causes separation from both others and yourself.

It’s probably apparent how trauma gets in the way of your relationships with others: the way it causes you to react how you otherwise would never react and how it prevents you from being able to feel genuinely safe and connected.

But what is less apparent is how trauma separates you from yourself. Self-separation is why you might sometimes struggle to understand why you think, feel, and act the way you do.

Trauma breaks the connections between your thoughts, feelings, and actions – and the result is chaos.

EMDR helps you overcome trauma.

Seeking help for trauma is not a scary or hopeless exercise.

We use a method called EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing) to help you make the connection between your thoughts, feelings, and actions.

Once you learn to reprocess that traumatic memory, it will cease to control your life. The emotional and physical problems caused by that memory will cease to be all-consuming.

Your sense of chaos can turn to comfort, creating a life free from the past.