EMDR

This therapy that can help you process trauma as well as any other negative experiences that have happened in your life. When something distressing, traumatic or significantly negative happens, this can overwhelm your system and cause a breakdown.

If you think of the brain as an Amazon warehouse, these experiences that are meant to go through the different processing centers (i.e. packaged for shipping, storing, etc). However, when trauma occurs, the entrance to the warehouse gets closed and new shipments get stuck outside and start to pile up. This breakdown in the chain can lead to triggering intense emotional and physiological responses, leading to various symptoms and difficulties in daily life such as anxiety, depression, other intense emotions, and dissociation, which can negatively impact relationships. What EMDR does is reopen the gate to the warehouse for these experiences to be processed through. The memories are then processed in such a way that they lose their painful intensity and become more of a neutral memory of the past. This is done through identifying these negative events and using bilateral stimulation through sight, sound, or touch to sort through those memories.

This therapy is widely known for its ability to produce significant and lasting results in a relatively short period of time.