EMDR therapy is an eight-phase treatment protocol designed to help people heal from extremely stressful or traumatic experiences. These experiences exist along spectrums of intensity, frequency, and longevity. Our brains are remarkably resilient and adaptive; however, when experiences push the brain beyond its natural resiliency, it adapts by moving us into “survival mode” to get us through. Amazingly, we survive these awful experiences, but we often develop problematic, psychological symptoms or harmful coping strategies as a result. EMDR therapy focuses on these “unprocessed” parts of the traumatic memory and reprocesses them until the problem is resolved and no longer causing significant distress.

Scientific research has established EMDR therapy as effective in the treatment of post-traumatic stress. Additionally, clinicians also have reported success using EMDR in the treatment of the following conditions:

• Post-traumatic stress disorder

• Panic attacks

• Complicated grief

• Dissociative disorders

• Anxiety and Phobias

• Depression

• Pain disorders

• Performance anxiety

• Addictions

• Sexual, Physical, and/or Psychological abuse

• Body dysmorphic disorders

• Eating disorders

• Personality Disorders