EMDR Therapy
EMDR therapy may be an option when traditional talk therapy is unable to foster significant change. While beneficial, traditional therapy is often not enough to resolve chronic symptoms created by traumatic experiences. When overwhelmed, the brain will often not properly process or “store” traumatic memories. When this happens the event or experience becomes stored as a “maladaptive memory.” In a sense it is “frozen in time” in the brain and body and can impact daily functioning, interfering with how we relate to self, others and the world.
First developed for treatment of trauma and PTSD, EMDR is now found to be beneficial for a wide range of symptoms and diagnoses including anxiety, depression, disturbing memories, stress, grief and intrusive thoughts.