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Eye Movement Desensitization & Reprocessing (EMDR)

Put the past where it belongs — in the past.

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What is EMDR?

EMDR is a brief, focused form of psychotherapy that targets symptoms that originate from disturbing or traumatic past events. EMDR helps you liberate yourself from the intrusion of past pain into your daily life, so you can focus on moving forward.

EMDR theorizes that the mind already knows how to heal itself and will spontaneously do so when given the right support. It’s highly effective at resolving deeply rooted and painful thoughts, emotions, and behaviors. Using bilateral stimulation (eye-movements, tapping, etc.), EMDR effectively changes the roots of painful life experiences and replaces them with a healthy, balanced frame of mind. The positive results of EMDR are often immediate and long-lasting.

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EMDR can help:

  • Relieve symptoms of PTSD including hyper-vigilance, flashbacks, intrusive memories, nightmares, and generalized anxiety

  • Rewrites core beliefs and negative self-talk into empowering and affirming beliefs

  • Understand and alleviate a variety of long-terms symptoms like anxiety, depression, panic, and emotional distress

  • Address symptoms that occur both in the mind and the body

  • Improve emotional regulation and a sustained sense of calm in previously triggering experiences

  • Alleviate emotional and physical intensity associated with disturbing memories and life event

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How does EMDR work?

EMDR works on an accelerated timeline and helps the brain reprocess memories of distressing events to dramatically reduce their emotional and physical intensity. Through bilateral stimulation like side-to-side eye movements, alternate tapping, or audio tones, EMDR keeps you grounded in the present and allows your nervous system to spontaneously and safely digest the memory and reduce its emotional intensity.

Distressing and traumatic events can freeze memories and their emotional content in the past, so that we continue to re-experience them long after we’ve regained a sense of safety. EMDR desensitizes triggers for past experiences and resolves stuck memories, so that you can think and feel differently in your daily life.

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