EMDR is the acronym for Eye Movement Desentisation and Reprocessing.

 

EMDR is a comprehensive therapy that treats trauma and other issues.  After establishing a sense of safety, we can start to use the methods of EMDR, if you would like, to help guide you towards deep healing and resolution.  Remember, you always have a choice and this includes the approaches we use within therapy.

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Your emotional, physical and somatic well-being are interrelated and using body-based techniques such as bilateral stimulation, we can help the brain reintegrate a memory or issue toward resolution with adaptive information stored within. An example of bilateral stimulation is tapping using the Butterfly Hug as shown in the picture below. The alternate tapping on either side of the body helps restore and strengthen a sense of balance between the two brain hemispheres which, in turn, helps to strengthen new and healing pathways with adaptive information restored, helping you sense a deep feeling of calm throughout the body.  This is how a regulated nervous system feels.

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When trauma stores incompletely, the past intrusively comes up in your present.  You can then be triggered anytime, having unwanted symptoms and reactions.  The brain and nervous system react as if the past is currently happening.  EMDR corrects this mis-storage, so the trauma loses it's charge and you can react in the present without the past interfering.