EMDR

EMDR is a powerful, evidence-based therapy that helps clients process and heal from trauma. By using bilateral stimulation (typically eye movements), EMDR helps rewire the brain’s response to distressing memories, reducing their emotional intensity. This approach can be particularly effective for overcoming PTSD, anxiety, and negative beliefs, enabling clients to achieve lasting healing and emotional resilience.

Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing is a psychotherapy that enables people to heal from the symptoms and emotional distress that are the result of disturbing life experiences. Repeated studies show that by using EMDR therapy people can experience the benefits of psychotherapy that once took years to make a difference.

EMDR is effective in helping people process emotionally painful experiences. Long-term results of EMDR affects overall well-being so responses can return to normalcy and health. If you are seeking a peaceful resolution to painful events or to release unhealthy coping strategies, then EMDR therapy may be for you.

Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR), is a really cool, interesting, and neuroscientific form of therapy. It is primarily used to help relieve clients from unresolved trauma and negative experiences.

Via Telehealth I draw from this modality. If connection is stable we can integrate this modality into our sessions. EMDR helps process trauma and resourcing tools.

EMDR uses eye movements or sound to help you reprocess experiences that your brain hasn't stored in a helpful way. EMDR makes those memories less powerful and gives you relief from anxiety, depression, or PTSD.

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I am trained in EMDR Therapy, and its framework is very important to my theoretical orientation. My focus overall is highly trauma-informed. Your history and previous life experiences all play a part in your current every day life, conscious or otherwise.

Painful experiences transfer from one relationship to the next when they are not healed. We don't want to take our issues on to our future relationships and have them suffer from OUR lack of treatment and healing. Addressing our fears, phobias, nightmares and past trauma allows us to live in the present and to have authentic healthy future relationships. I encourage clients to take the time to heal before allowing themselves to enter a new relationship.

Completed 20+ hours of basic EMDR training.

I am an EMDR trained therapist and have completed some advanced training as well. I am a regular participant in a monthly EMDR consultation group with other therapists. I love using EMDR to help clients process trauma when appropriate.

Eye movement desensitization and Reprocessing is form of psychotherapy used to relieve psychological stress. This therapy helps patients process challenging memories, thoughts and feelings which in turn helps you towards your journey to healing.

I have extensive experience utilizing EMDR, both for the treatment of PTSD and other trauma-related disorders, as well as applying the principles underlying EMDR to effectively treat mood disorders, anxiety, substance use disorders, binge eating, OCD, impulsivity, and avoidance.

Eye Movement Desensitization Reprocessing (EMDR) is a trauma focused therapy that is used to help clients alleviate symptoms from trauma by revisiting and reprocessing traumatic memories. It is also effective at reducing symptoms of depression, anxiety, OCD, and more. This modality work well in person as well as virtually. https://www.emdria.org/about-emdr-therapy/

At Barefoot and Balanced, we have multiple practitioners who are certified to practice EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitization & Reprocessing), a technique proven to help patients experience the benefits of therapy sooner by unblocking emotional wounds and creating new associations so that healing can take place. Each of our clinicians has successfully administered the techniques that make this type of treatment most effective for clients.

I was trained specifically in Somatic and Attachment Focused EMDR. This differs from the standard model because of my focus on the somatic symptoms of your trauma as well as the attachment wounding that created the trauma response. I also focus on how your current reaction profile seems to keep you safe and connected so that together we do not challenge your "Answer", or set of defenses that help you manage distress and prevent abandonment.

I am EMDR trained and use this to help clients process traumatic memories.