EMDR: What is it and how does it work?

Healing Trauma: Rewire Your Brain, Reclaim Your Life

When the Past Feels Like the Present

Trauma, whether recent or from years ago, can leave lasting emotional and physical effects. If you’ve experienced abuse or a deeply distressing event, you may feel like your life is out of control—filled with anxiety, pain, or a sense of chaos. This is because your brain and body are still responding as if the trauma is happening now.

EMDR: A Proven Path to Healing

I specialize in Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR), a highly effective therapy designed to help your brain properly process and store trauma—so it no longer has power over you. Unlike traditional talk therapy, EMDR allows you to heal more efficiently by rewiring how your brain processes distressing memories.

How EMDR Works: Faster, Deeper Healing

EMDR often leads to faster results than talk therapy alone, saving you time, energy, and emotional distress. While the process isn’t always easy, it is highly effective in helping you heal from trauma in a profound and lasting way.

Understanding Automatic Responses

Our minds react automatically to certain experiences, just like our bodies do. If I say, “Roses are red…” your brain likely fills in, “…violets are blue.” In the same way, past trauma can trigger automatic emotional responses—causing fear, shame, or distress, even when the danger is no longer present.

How Trauma Gets Stored in the Brain

Our brains store memories in networks of neurons that shape how we see the world and respond to experiences. Traumatic memories, when unprocessed, can continue influencing our emotions and behaviors in ways we may not fully understand. This is why someone can know they are safe but still feel afraid, or know a relationship is unhealthy but struggle to walk away.

EMDR helps reprocess these memories so they no longer trigger overwhelming emotions, allowing you to move forward with clarity and confidence.

Putting the Past in the Past

When distressing memories still carry the emotions, sensations, and beliefs from the time of the event, they remain “unprocessed” in the brain. EMDR works by targeting these unprocessed memories, helping your brain properly store them so they no longer impact your present.

This means:
✅ What’s useful is learned.
✅ What’s harmful is released.
✅ The past finally stays in the past.

You Don’t Have to Carry This Alone

EMDR is not just for trauma—it can also help with anxiety, grief, self-worth struggles, and more. If past experiences are still affecting your present, I’d love to help you take the next step toward healing.

Reach out today to learn more about how EMDR can help you find relief and freedom.