EMDR Therapy for Trauma
Trauma shows up in many different ways in our lives and it is not always clear cut.
Trauma can affect your relationships, your mental and physical health, your reactions and perceptions in everyday life.
Experiencing an overwhelming event can leave you feeling stuck, hopeless, powerless, and out of control.
These emotions can jump at you seemingly out of nowhere or they can seem ever present, never leaving your side.
This is how the past may be still present in your life:
Strong emotional reactions to situations, places, or people that are hard to explain or you believe are stronger than warranted.
Avoiding certain situations, places, or people.
Living in a state of constant ALERT, ready to fight or flight, can’t relax or unwind.
Freeze reactions out of nowhere.
Feeling numb, not able to connect to your thoughts and feelings, feeling disconnected to others.
Problems in relationships, hard time communicating, feeling seen and heard, expressing your needs.
These are normal reactions to abnormal circumstances.
Whatever happened to you in your life, you don’t have to stay stuck in those feelings. There are many effective treatments for trauma. One of them is EMDR.
Nobody can change what happened to you in your past. But you can change the emotional charge, the grip that those experiences still hold on you.
You can reclaim the driver’s seat in your life.
Trauma Therapy Can Help You.
Finally find a better understanding of your reactions, feelings, and behaviors.
Identify what experiences still haunt you today and learn how you can address them.
Take away the emotional charge of painful memories.
Find new perspectives and new meaning in your experience.
EMDR Therapy
Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) therapy is a well-established trauma treatment approach that utilizes our brain’s natural ability to heal from disturbing memories and experiences, even the most painful ones.
Everyone has the natural ability to experience mental wellbeing. Certain life experiences can leave us feeling stuck in a past overwhelming emotion.
EMDR utilizes a structured protocol and stimulation of both sides of the brain (bilateral stimulation) with eye movements, taps, or sounds to provide that boost or nudge for the brain to begin the healing journey.
This therapy approach is centered around every person’s individual needs and requires thorough assessment and preparation by a trained professional.
Find out more about EMDR at:
emdria.org
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