Eye Movement Desensitization
and Reprocessing
(EMDR)
Emotions are poking out!
“I’ve read the books, I’ve done the CBT work… I just can’t stop having that memory replay when I am trying to sleep.”
“I can’t stop going back to that moment.”
As you walk through your days and your life, everything feels like it is happening to you… you are a ghost in your own life. At the coffee shop with your friend, you couldn’t even hear what she was talking about.
You burst into tears and have a panic attack while you drive.
School has become a struggle; concentration is nearly impossible.
You’ve tried so hard not to let it affect you, to be brave and strong, but it is impacting you. Of course, it is impacting you. How could it not?
And you are tired.
You’ve talked it through already.
Yet, you can’t make sense of how you respond to a certain noise – or maybe just too much noise.
Fear is always close – your body is on edge, looking for danger. This vigilance can interfere with your relationships and your ability to be known by people.
Maybe you have tried traditional talk therapy before and feel it just didn’t quite get you unstuck. Many times, people look for EMDR when they feel like what they know in their heads hasn’t changed their feelings or their inner world.
If the past keeps popping up in the present, EMDR can help.
What is EMDR?
EMDR is a powerful, evidence-based psychotherapy approach designed to help individuals recover from traumatic events, distressing memories, trauma, PTSD, anxiety (which can present as OCD, panic attacks, phobia), and psychological symptoms that result from disturbing life experiences.
This innovative therapy, developed by Francine Shapiro in the late 1980s, has gained widespread recognition for its effectiveness in treating various mental health conditions.
Unlike traditional talk therapy, EMDR focuses on the way the brain processes information and memories, which helps facilitate the brain’s natural healing processes.
In the ways that trauma has disconnected you, EMDR can help reconnect you.
EMDR can also re-process rigid thought patterns and beliefs such as, “I’m not good enough.”
Our brains capacity (and desire!) to heal is remarkable.
EMDR is a tool that allows your brain to do what it wants to do to heal. A trained therapist guides you through a series of bilateral stimulation (moving your eyes side to side) to enable your brain to reprocess distressing events, negative beliefs, emotions, and thoughts.
Often, clients who benefit from EMDR say, “I felt like I always knew cognitively but never felt it – now I feel it.”
With a therapist at Kinship, we use EMDR as a piece of therapy… a tool to help us into the work.
You don’t have to carry that thing around anymore. EMDR can help you let it go.
And we can help you do it. Please reach out.