EMDR Therapy
Cognitive-behavioral Therapy
Dialectical-behavioral Therapy
Mindfulness Approach
Narrative Therapy
Psychodynamic Therapy
Sensorimotor Psychotherapy
We provide Teletherapy/Video Sessions Only.
What is EMDR Therapy?
Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) is a psychotherapy treatment that is designed to alleviate the distress associated with traumatic memories. EMDR therapy facilitates the accessing and processing of traumatic memories and other adverse life experiences to bring these to an adaptive resolution. After successful treatment with EMDR therapy, affective distress is relieved, negative beliefs are reformulated, and physiological arousal is reduced.
During the EMDR therapy process, the patient will be asked to attend to emotionally disturbing memories and/or thoughts in brief sequential doses, while simultaneously focusing on an external stimulus. The most commonly used external stimulus is eye movements with audio sound. Another example of external stimuli includes hand-tapping and audio stimulation. These techniques will help access the traumatic memory network, so that information processing is enhanced, with new associations forged between the traumatic memory and more adaptive memories or information. These new associations are thought to result in complete information processing, new learning, elimination of emotional distress, and development of cognitive insights.