EMDR | Trauma Therapy

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Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) is an evidence-based approach that can support a wide range of symptoms, including anxiety, trauma responses, eating disorders, and other experiences of emotional overwhelm or feeling “stuck.”

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Rather than seeing symptoms as problems to eliminate, EMDR is grounded in the idea that they often develop as adaptations—ways the nervous system has learned to protect you, stay safe, or make sense of past experiences. From this perspective, current struggles can often be understood in connection to earlier experiences, beliefs, and environments that shaped them.

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EMDR is a bottom-up, integrative approach, meaning it works with both the body and the nervous system in addition to thoughts and emotions. This perspective also deeply shapes my overall therapeutic style, even when EMDR is not being used directly in session.

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In practice, EMDR follows an 8-phase approach that includes understanding your history, building resourcing and stability, identifying target experiences, and then supporting the brain in reprocessing those experiences so they are less emotionally charged and more integrated. The process also includes strengthening adaptive beliefs and supporting the body in returning to a sense of safety and regulation.

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I am EMDRIA-certified and have completed additional training in EMDR and dissociation, ego states work, and EMDR-informed approaches for eating disorders.