EMDR Therapy
Healing Through Gentle, Evidence-Based Processing
EMDR is a scientifically-validated therapy that helps your brain process difficult experiences without reliving them in detail. This gentle approach works directly with how memories are stored in your nervous system, helping you move beyond patterns that no longer serve you and creating space for resilience and renewed hope. Available to clients in Golden, CO and surrounding areas.
What Is EMDR?
Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) is a highly effective form of trauma treatment that has endless applications. You do not have to have a diagnosis of Post Traumatic Stress Disorder to benefit from EMDR. My clients seek out EMDR therapy because they have symptoms of anxiety, depression, or relationship patterns that they find puzzling, painful, or perhaps incongruent with other areas of their life.
When we begin the process of EMDR together, we explore what you are experiencing present day. My role is to help guide you in identifying which past experiences may be contributing to what feels presently stuck or distressing. Then, by utilizing bilateral stimulation techniques, such as back and forth eye movement, alternating vibrating buzzers, or tapping, we process these memories together by targeting the way the memory is stored in your nervous system—through your senses, thoughts/beliefs, emotions, and body sensations.
Why EMDR Works
Just as trimming the top of a dandelion is only temporarily beneficial to the health of your yard's landscape, so too can less effective modalities be in addressing your symptoms. We want to identify and address the root of the issue. When approaching the present issue from this angle, the effects on your emotional health can be tremendous. EMDR is highly effective, and although it can have a reputation to be magic, it is not unicorns and rainbows, nor is it "microwave healing." However, this evidence-based practice addresses symptoms and patterns in a more targeted way, bringing down disturbances, and producing many positive ripple effects.
Your Healing Process
Your healing process is a personalized journey of growth and transformation, designed to help you move forward with clarity, resilience, and self-compassion.
STEP 1:
Assessment & Preparation
We begin by understanding your unique story, establishing safety, and building the resources you need for successful processing.
STEP 2:
Target Identification
Together, we identify specific memories or experiences that are contributing to your current challenges and distress.
STEP 3:
Processing & Integration
Using bilateral stimulation, we help your brain process and integrate these experiences in a new, adaptive way.
STEP 4:
Future Resilience
We strengthen your capacity to handle future challenges with confidence, using the insights and healing you've gained.
Explore Complementary Support
If you’re drawn to parts work alongside EMDR, Internal Family Systems therapy can help your system integrate the shifts we uncover together.
When you want concentrated time to address a specific theme, EMDR intensives offer extended space to move further without the pause of weekly sessions.
For clients weaving psychedelic work into their healing, ketamine preparation and integration support keeps the insights grounded between sessions.