If you’ve experienced trauma, you’ll know just how much hold it can have over your life. Daily flashbacks, isolation, anxiety, nervousness, nightmares, and insomnia can bring life to a halt. Sometimes, it can be difficult to leave your home at all. EMDR can help. 

EMDR stands for Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing, initially developed in the late 1980s by Francine Shapiro. Today, it is one of the most powerful ways of helping individuals heal from trauma. EMDR focuses on traumatic memories, reducing the vividness of these memories, as well as fixed negative thoughts, not by removing these things, but by

changing the way they’re stored in the brain, allowing you to adequately process the information. Fundamental components include grounding exercises, visualization, resource building, thought replacement and bilateral stimulation (such as rhythmic tapping or eye movement).

Just like when we get a cut, our body has a built in natural response to heal it. The same is true with our brains. Because the brain can be a complicated place of information storage, things sometimes can get stuck. EMDR helps to move things from stuck to processed.

We’re not just talking about what’s wrong,
we’re actually healing it.