What is EMDR?

Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing …is a structured therapy that encourages a client to focus briefly on a distressing experience while experiencing bilateral stimulation. EMDR helps the brain process distress without being re-traumatized. Allowing the brain’s natural healing process to resume. The distress is still remembered, but the fight, flight, or freeze response from the original event is resolved.

Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) can provide relief for…

  • Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) and other trauma and stress-related issues

  • Anxiety, panic attacks, and phobias

  • Chronic Illness, medical issues and pain

  • Depression and bipolar disorders

  • Dissociative disorders

  • Grief and loss

  • Performance anxiety

  • Sexual assault

  • Violence and abuse

Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing Therapy is a therapeutic approach that helps clients process distressing memories and their associated negative beliefs or symptoms. EMRD is an amazing tool that thousands of therapists use to help clients process a traumatic event, it can even be used as a performance enhancement tool to help athletes, test anxiety, or social anxiety.

EMDR uses bilateral stimulation (such as eye movements) to aid in the brain's natural healing process. This therapy is effective in treating PTSD, chronic pain, attachment wounds, ongoing trauma, and everyday life stressors.

It allows individuals to reprocess traumatic memories without being re-traumatized, integrating these experiences into their overall life narrative. EMDR has been particularly successful in helping veterans and others heal from traumatic events, and it is recognized by the Department of Veterans Affairs.