EMDR Trauma

We offer different approaches to the treatment of trauma. All methods have one thing in common- they each change your relationship to the memory.

Trauma happens when memories form in ways that create trauma networks in the brain. This is the reason why two people can experience the same situation where one person experiences an unhappy memory and the other develops full-blown PTSD.  The first person's brain labeled and filed the memory in a way that avoided the formation of a trauma network and the other person's experience remained "stuck."  Those neural trauma networks can easily hijack your body and can feel difficult to escape when they get triggered.  

EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing), is a set of powerful evidence-based tools for the treatment of trauma and PTSD, as well as other mental health conditions.  Therapies such as EMDR, tapping therapies and walking therapies make use of "bilateral stimulation" of the brain to reconsolidate memories.  Hypnosis facilitates this process.  It is not necessary to recount the details of traumatic events.

EMDR changes your relationship to those memories so that you have a way of exiting the trauma network.  After therapy, there may still be an unpleasant memory, but your relationship to it is changed so that it is no longer a trauma.

EMDR therapy has been shown to be very effective in treating trauma, with success rates between 80–90%.  In one study, 100% of single-trauma victims and 77% of multiple-trauma victims no longer had PTSD after six 50-minute EMDR sessions. Another study found that 77% of combat veterans were free of PTSD after 12 sessions.

What we CAN'T do:

We can’t erase your memories. 

We can’t make you like your memories

We can’t make your memories “feel good.”

What we ARE doing is changing your relationship to those memories and experiences so that you no longer live in a state of mental and physiological hijack and can feel like yourself again.