Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing
(EMDR)

The loss of a loved one by accident is traumatic.

Imagine being in your mid-20s, living like usual, waking up, and making your day-to-day living. An influencer, a social light in your community, and you are excited for your future to start.

One afternoon, you decided to take the wheel after a party. You have a few friends in the car, driving on an overpass, and suddenly, the semi-truck in front of you hits a brake – hard. You tried to dodge the semi-truck, only for your car to hit the semi and tumble 25 feet down. You lose your friends instantly; no one is left alive in the car but you.

Since the car accident, you have been struggling with feelings of guilt, severe anxiety from this accident, and occasional thoughts of ending it all. Although healed physically, it has been challenging mentally.

Childhood experiences carry over into adulthood.

A woman in her 30s had difficulties with vulnerability. She is unable to identify why relationships keep ending. She is hard-working and takes care of her partner the best way she knows – by taking care of the home. Yet things don’t seem to go as she hoped for in her relationships.

She realizes that she does put up a wall to protect herself from being hurt because of growing up in a household where she experienced abandonment by her father.

Although she is now an adult and successful, her father’s lack of physical and emotional presence prevents her from forming long-term healthy relationships.

An eight-year-old girl’s uncle raped her. Now in her 20s, she still struggles to form intimate relationships.

She can’t watch a movie that has sexual violence without being triggered.

Healing was possible in each case.

The young man in his 20s learned to heal from the trauma that kept him from getting his life back. He was able to return to accomplish his goals and dreams. He also learned how to face the public again and worked through social isolation, depression, and anxiety caused by an accident.

The woman with the absent father took a while but trusted my approach. We took things at her pace as we built trust. After letting her guard down, she started her healing journey. She worked through finding self-love by healing from past relationship trauma. Figuring out triggers in relationships helped her understand when walls were coming back up. In our process together, she worked on healing. In healing herself, she opened herself to love.

The girl with the abusive uncle carried a lot of trauma for years. She was able to watch herself grow in therapy, heal, and let go of the feeling of shame caused by her trauma. She worked through her triggers, can now do things she loves, and watch movies without feeling triggered.

EMDR therapy made the difference.

EMDR is Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing therapy. That fancy word means that this form of therapy can help you work on healing traumatic experiences. EMDR helps with treating anxiety, PTSD, past trauma, etc. This treatment modality is a form of psychotherapy.

For each individual mentioned above, I used EMDR therapy to help them overcome their past experiences.

Each client is different because each must process experiences that surfaced from specific past events. The goal is to get to the bottom of the traumatic memory and help the client recover.

A typical session lasts between 60-90 minutes and can take between 3 to 12 sessions. Some individuals may require more than just 3-12 sessions. Don’t let the past keep triggering memories that cause you constant distress. It is possible to move on and put the past in the past.

EMDR can help, and I am here to help you move forward with your life.

Call me for a free 15-minute phone consultation to see if EMDR could help you.