emdr
EMDR Therapy online for florida residents
You’re tired of talking about it. If you have to tell your story one more time you’re going to scream.
No matter how much you talk about what happened, you can’t seem to move past what happened. It’s impacting your sleep, your relationships, and your work. Distressing memories keep coming back to you. It feels like you’re floating through life.
You know something needs to change.
EMDR therapy can help.
EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing) is a psychotherapy that helps people heal from the symptoms and emotional distress that typically show up after disturbing life experiences. Studies show that EMDR therapy helps people experience the benefits of psychotherapy that once took years to make a difference.
How does EMDR therapy work?
Traumatic memories can get stuck in the right hemisphere of the brain. EMDR Therapy helps you to build bridges and access your resources. This happens by re-activating the neural networks associated with a traumatic event and integrating it with the rest of the brain to promote healing.
We start by focusing on resource development to strengthen the neural networks associated with positive sensations, emotions, and cognitions. We will create several ways for you to find safety in your body and regulate your nervous system.
Dual Attention Stimulation (DAS) is then used during EMDR by using of bi-lateral eye movements, pulsers, or tones that alternate between the left and right side of the body. You can use one, two, or all of these ways to stimulate DAS. Research shows that EMDR Therapy successfully reduces the vividness, somatic arousal, and emotional intensity associated with distressing memories (Barrowcliff et all., 2004; van den Hout et al., 2013).
EMDR is very different from traditional psychotherapy.
After the initial sessions and history taking, there is very little talking in EMDR therapy. This modality allows you to have an experience, rather than simply talking about your past or future. If you have tried traditional talk therapy with minimal results or would like to try something new, EMDR can help.
Ready to start emdr?
Whitney provides EMDR therapy online for Florida residents. For more information, please fill out the form!
