EMDR Psychotherapy

EMDR is a comprehensive psychotherapy that engages the body’s natural healing system to integrate past experiences, allowing our pasts to inform rather than define our present and future. It is a collaborative and goal-oriented process that is grounded in the therapeutic relationship between client and therapist. 

 

EMDR is based on the Adaptive Information Processing (AIP) model, which understands present struggles as the result of our past experiences and how those are stored in our nervous systems. While some people may be aware of specific past experiences that are affecting them in the present, many people are often not consciously aware of how their past experiences inform their present responses to themselves, others, and the world. EMDR therapists help clients make past-present connections to better understand the development of their current responses to problems in life and help prepare clients for memory reprocessing. As an emotion-focused treatment, EMDR helps people safely explore, experience, and make sense of their emotions, thoughts, physical sensations, and impulses in response to past, present, and anticipated experiences. EMDR is an evidence-based treatment for simple and complex PTSD, developmental and/or attachment trauma, depression, anxiety, complicated grief, personality disorders, and more. EMDR is effective for people struggling in their relationships with themselves and/or others.

 

Please visit the EMDR International Associations’s website to learn more about the body’s natural healing system and how EMDR allows your neurological system to heal from past experiences that are affecting your present problems.