EMDR

Created by Francine Shapiro, Ph. D., EMDR is a powerful, research-supported treatment that is endorsed by EMDRIA & the Veteran's Administration for the compassionate and effective treatment of trauma and related disturbances. EMDR uses what we know about neuroscience and the brain to help us identify, locate, and address the "root(s)" of our current discomforts, thus effectively and efficiently alleviating symptoms of emotional, psychological, physical and/or attachment trauma.

EMDR stands for Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing. When we sleep every night and enter into R.E.M sleep, our eyes move back and forth. While they do this, we process all of the information that we have not gotten to in our waking day. We use the same principles in EMDR to bring up difficult memories from your past and use the back-and-forth movement of your eyes to reprocess those difficult events. Traumatic memories store in your brain in a different way than normal memories do. We use this technique to address those traumatic memories and learn to let go of the unhelpful information in them. With increased insight, knowledge, and awareness comes an increased ability to make lasting behavioral changes.