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EMDR Therapy
Helping the nervous system finish what trauma interrupted
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More detail about how I offer EMDR will be added here soon. I am authorized to provide EMDR therapy, and we can talk about whether it belongs in our work together. If you would like to explore EMDR, please reach out or book a session — you do not need to wait for this page to be finished.
What is EMDR?
Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) is an evidence-based, trauma-focused therapy. It is designed to help the mind and body reprocess distressing memories that still feel stuck—so they can be stored as something that happened, rather than something that is still happening.
Trauma can be any event that exceeded your capacity to cope. The effects can look like flashbacks, nightmares, hypervigilance, shame, emotional numbness, or a body that will not stand down. These are not signs that you are broken. They are normal responses to experiences that were not normal. EMDR works with those imprints directly, rather than asking you to only talk your way through them.
Sometimes words aren't enough. EMDR brings together the somatic, emotional, cognitive, and narrative parts of an experience. It can be a pathway to healing when talk therapy alone has not reached what is held in the body.
How EMDR Healing Works
Starts with Safety
EMDR follows a structured eight-phase process. We begin with preparation, grounding, and your window of tolerance—never rushing into material your nervous system is not ready to hold.
Uses Dual Attention
Bilateral stimulation, such as guided eye movements, helps the brain reprocess stuck memories while you remain present. You do not have to relive every detail to let the charge begin to settle.
Works with Body and Mind
Trauma is stored in the body, not just the mind. EMDR supports the nervous system in completing what was interrupted, so old patterns of alarm can give way to more calm, clarity, and choice.
This work happens at your pace. I hold a safe, structured space where we follow your inner wisdom and what feels manageable—not a protocol for its own sake.
Who EMDR Can Support
EMDR is particularly helpful for people living with trauma, PTSD, and the aftereffects of events that changed everything. It can support veterans and first responders carrying operational stress, moral injury, and the hypervigilance that kept you alive and now makes it hard to come home.
It can also be part of healing from grief, narcissistic abuse, chronic pain, anxiety, and other experiences where the past still lives in the present. Your story will not match anyone else's, and the work will be tailored to you.
Where this training comes from
I trained with Scaling Up EMDR, founded by Kelly Smyth-Dent, LCSW. Scaling Up offers EMDRIA-approved EMDR Basic Training for licensed mental health clinicians, with a focus on trauma-informed care for people working in high-impact areas such as crisis, trauma, and humanitarian response.
Their Basic Training includes Parts I and II, consultation, and a practical foundation in the eight-phase EMDR protocol. The program is built for accessibility and for clinicians who want tools they can actually use with the people they serve.
I am authorized to provide EMDR as part of this practice, grounded in that same standard of trauma-focused, evidence-based care.
Alongside the work we already do
EMDR sits alongside the approaches already part of this practice. Mindfulness helps you find a foothold in the present. Neurodynamic Breathwork offers a somatic pathway when talking is not enough. Counselling holds the relationship, the story, and the pace.
We can talk about whether EMDR belongs in your healing—and how it might complement the work we are already doing, rather than replace it.
Ready to explore EMDR?
This page is still being finished, but EMDR is available now. Reach out or book a session to talk about whether it is a fit.