EMDR Therapy for adult women in Texas, oregon, and arizona

EMDR Therapy

You ask and tell yourself: Can I even call it trauma? Was it that bad? It wasn’t that bad. Someone else had it way worse.

Who gets to decide?

I often hear women compare trauma.

It’s easy to compare trauma and think someone else has had it worse. Who really gets to decide? No one is immune to trauma. And most people have a tendency to compare it to someone else’s.

But no one gets to decide. Trauma affects the body and the brain in the same ways and EMDR Therapy can help.

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What is EMDR Therapy?

EMDR is an acronym for Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing Therapy. EMDR is a brain-based therapy that allows you work through a traumatic memory, decreasing shame, guilt, sadness, anxiety, fear, negative thoughts, and low self-esteem attached to it.

This therapy is used to help individuals who are survivors of any type of trauma and can also help in many other areas you’re struggling with.

Whatever has tried to hurt you, has helped you survive. Trauma can feel like a survival instinct because it's affected you in ways that have helped you get this far.

What happens after a trauma?

A trauma can overwhelm your nervous system which then affects how you respond to people and certain situations. You may be on high alert or feel like there's an on switch that's hard to turn off. You may also feel numb or detached from people in your life, situations, and life in general.

Here's the thing, you don't always realize a past memory or memories are affecting you today.

Trauma changes how your brain interprets information which can affect your feelings and thoughts about yourself. You notice you respond in big ways to situations that others may not consider a big deal. Thinking you're not good enough and that you should've done something differently is also common for you.

Trust is hard, even with loved ones, and you avoid thinking about the trauma at all costs because of how badly it makes you feel. There's often shame connected to trauma. You wonder where it all started or why you feel so much of it.

Guilt is another one. The urge to appease and please is also a pattern you notice.

Trauma can go unnoticed for years.

It wouldn't be surprising to hear you're just now noticing how it's impacted you because trauma can affect you later in life. The brain has a way of helping you forget and dissociate if it's too difficult or painful.

EMDR Therapy can help your brain and body connect on a deeper level where you can process and unfreeze the emotional paralysis that often keeps you frozen in this.

EMDR Therapy allows you to revisit a memory with the guidance of a trained or Certified EMDR Therapist, using bilateral stimulation.
Bilateral stimulation involves alternating from side-to-side through eye movements, tapping, or audio sounds.

The process is thought to allow you to become unstuck from the trauma, helping you process through difficult emotions and body sensations, and negative beliefs about yourself, all connected to the trauma.

While using bilateral stimulation, I'll guide you through reprocessing the memory.
It's not necessary for you to talk about the experience or trauma during a session-only if you find it helpful to you in those moments.

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How can EMDR help?

This therapy can help you:

Reduce shame, sadness, and anxiety around painful memories
Change the negative perception you have about yourself
Shift unhelpful patterns and responses to situations
Release painful grief and sorrow

EMDR Therapy can reach different parts of your brain where talk therapy alone just can't reach or affect as much. This can help you leave the past in the past where it belongs.

This therapy isn't right for everyone and you'll need to be willing to possibly experience strong feelings and upsetting thoughts that sometimes happen during and after sessions.

I’ll guide you through this and we will go at a pace that's comfortable and best for you. You won’t be left alone in this.

What does EMDR treat?

There has been decades of research that supports the use of EMDR to treat PTSD and trauma. Research shows it's also beneficial in treating the following: