EMDR

You thought you overcame it.

Something really difficult happened in your past. Whether you call it a big trauma or a not-so-big deal, it still happened, and it hurt.

You thought you did the work to get through it. You shared about it, you journaled about it, and you talked about it in therapy before.

However, for some reason, when you return to it, the pain and guilt still feel overwhelming.

So, you do your best to never think about it.

You get triggered.

In seemingly unrelated situations, when you feel that pang of guilt, fear, or self-doubt, it’s as if your body returns to that moment in time.

You feel the same paralysis, or gut-wrenching anger, fear, or panic that you felt way back when that difficult thing happened.

Traditional talk therapy hasn’t worked to get you out of it.

Break free from the ‘stuckness.’

You think, “I know it wasn’t my fault, but I still feel like it was my fault.”

This happens because the way we store our memories is at the core of the issue.

In our earliest years, we did not have the capacity to understand we were not at fault for something bad that happened to us.

As an adult, you may know it, but the version of you that stores the memory does not.

EMDR can help you heal.

The process of EMDR does something that talk therapy alone can’t do. It’s a somatic therapy, meaning we will work on what you feel and sense in your body.

It also gets at our subconscious, something that cognitive therapy doesn’t do. We carry so many subconscious-blocking beliefs that hold us back, and EMDR can help unblock those.

We use bilateral stimulation to process your trauma, a way to re-encode memories in your body.

In EMDR, we will cut through the trauma over a few sessions (and again for different memories) and re-imagine and re-code some important insights to help free you from the pain.

Imagine how life can feel different.

Imagine a world in which you no longer have the thought, “Why did I do that?” “Why did I just lose it at my friend, colleague, spouse, etc.”

Imagine one where you are in control of your reactions, where you no longer get angry or upset over things that aren’t yours to carry, and where you are able to put space between yourself and other people’s reactions and behaviors.

Imagine one where you now not only understand why you are triggered into irritability, rage, fear or sadness, but are able to mitigate it and remain peaceful not just outside but internally as well.

Contact me at (813) 501-2169 for a free 15-minute consultation to start your path to healing today.