Why EMDR Therapy?
Almost everyone has experienced some sort of trauma in their lifetime. This trauma can be the obvious life threatening event, assaults, combat, and first responder calls. Trauma can also be less obvious and equally significant. Perhaps you have experienced a betrayal, lost a loved one, felt humiliated, worthless, overly responsible, defective or out of control. These events and emotions are also traumatic and can leave strong negative emotions and beliefs about oneself and the world. The resulting negative feelings and beliefs rarely resolve on their own. They require an unlearning of the old and a strong installation of the new.
What is traumatic to each of us is a subjective assessment. How each of us made sense of a life experience, aka trauma, creates the lens through which we see the world today.
The answers to these two questions can help you understand your trauma and tell you that EMDR therapy can help:
1. What did you learn when the worst thing happened to you?
2. What didn't you learn or receive that you needed to know or receive, while you were growing up?
Our brains have a natural process to resolve trauma. EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing) therapy works to assist this process when a feeling is stuck. When emotions of past events can still be experienced as a stress response in the present, we need to work on resolving the original event. Following this resolution, past emotionally-charged experiences no longer overly influence your present emotions, sensations, and thoughts about yourself. For example, do you ever feel like you have to be in control, even though you know you cannot? EMDR processing helps you break through these blocks. You will find this a kinder and gentler way of treatment.
Because EMDR therapy focuses on what we learned when something happened in the past, the treatment is effective for much more than just trauma. Most people come to me for depression, anxiety and relationship issues. EMDR is also effective in performance enhancement.
What is traumatic to each of us is a subjective assessment. How each of us made sense of a life experience, aka trauma, creates the lens through which we see the world today.
The answers to these two questions can help you understand your trauma and tell you that EMDR therapy can help:
1. What did you learn when the worst thing happened to you?
2. What didn't you learn or receive that you needed to know or receive, while you were growing up?
Our brains have a natural process to resolve trauma. EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing) therapy works to assist this process when a feeling is stuck. When emotions of past events can still be experienced as a stress response in the present, we need to work on resolving the original event. Following this resolution, past emotionally-charged experiences no longer overly influence your present emotions, sensations, and thoughts about yourself. For example, do you ever feel like you have to be in control, even though you know you cannot? EMDR processing helps you break through these blocks. You will find this a kinder and gentler way of treatment.
Because EMDR therapy focuses on what we learned when something happened in the past, the treatment is effective for much more than just trauma. Most people come to me for depression, anxiety and relationship issues. EMDR is also effective in performance enhancement.
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