EMDR Therapy

EMDR Therapy: A Path to Healing your Trauma

Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) is a proven, gentle approach that helps people heal from past trauma and upsetting memories that still affect them today. If you feel like certain experiences continue to hold you back or cause distress, EMDR may be a powerful tool to help you move forward.

Through EMDR therapy, you can work through difficult experiences and begin to feel more in control of your emotions, relationships, and overall well-being. Many people find that it helps them feel lighter, freer, and more present in their daily lives.

EMDR is trusted by organizations around the world—including the American Psychiatric Association, the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, and the World Health Organization—for treating trauma, PTSD, and related symptoms.

You don’t have to carry the weight of your past alone. As a trained EMDR therapist, I am here to support your healing and help you create a life filled with peace, purpose, and joy.

How EMDR Helps Heal Trauma

When something traumatic happens, your brain goes into survival mode—what we call the fight-or-flight response. In those intense moments, your brain may not fully process the experience. Instead of storing the memory like a regular one, it gets “stuck” in a way that can cause distress even years later. That’s why certain thoughts, feelings, body sensations, or images can suddenly resurface and feel just as intense as when the event happened.

EMDR therapy helps your brain finish what it couldn’t at the time. Using gentle eye movements or other forms of bilateral stimulation, EMDR allows the brain to reprocess the memory so it no longer feels overwhelming or frozen in time.

Over time, many people find that the emotional intensity around the memory fades. The experience is still there, but it no longer feels as painful or intrusive. Clients often say that EMDR helped them feel relief in ways that traditional talk therapy hadn’t—like a weight has been lifted.

If you've been carrying the pain of past experiences, EMDR can help you feel more grounded, more at peace, and more like yourself again.

What Can EMDR Therapy Help With?

EMDR therapy is a well-researched and lasting approach that’s especially effective for healing trauma and PTSD. But its benefits go beyond just those areas.

People have successfully used EMDR to work through:

  • PTSD

  • Anxiety

  • Trauma

  • Childhood Trauma

  • Sexual Abuse

  • Disturbing Memories

  • Panic Attacks

  • Phobias

  • Peak Performance for athletes

What to Expect in EMDR Therapy

In the first few sessions, your EMDR therapist will spend time getting to know you—your personal history, current challenges, and the symptoms you're experiencing. Together, you’ll identify key memories or experiences that may be contributing to your distress and decide which ones to focus on during your sessions.

When you’re ready, your therapist will guide you in briefly bringing up one of those memories while you follow a form of gentle stimulation—usually moving your eyes back and forth, following the therapist’s fingers. Some therapists may use tapping or sounds instead. This part of the process helps your brain “unstick” the memory and begin to heal from it.

Many clients find the experience surprisingly calming and often feel a deep sense of relief afterward. Your therapist will continue to help you process each memory at your pace, working through them one by one until the emotional intensity lessens or fades completely.