EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing) therapy for individuals in Draper, Utah.
Are you ready to break free from the past and fully experience the present? EMDR therapy can create real change, quickly. Keep reading to answer the question, “what is EMDR therapy?”
Have you experienced traditional talk therapy without achieving the desired results you were expecting?
If you are someone who…
Wants to get rid of the negative beliefs
Strives to bring relief and healing to the inner child
Wants to fully live in the present
Is not afraid of committing to therapy
EMDR therapy can help you.
What is EMDR therapy?
EMDR is an effective therapy approach that can tap into your body’s own ability to heal itself. Oftentimes, the negative experiences from our past show up in the present. There is a way to heal from the hurt, to gain clarity in your thoughts and feel the shift in your body. Can you envision a reality where you not only have positive thoughts about yourself but also believe them to be true?
What is EMDR therapy and is it effective?
EMDR asks the question, how is the past informing the present? EMDR stands for Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing. Have been struggling with unresolved trauma, anxiety or phobias? Are distressing memories plaguing daily thoughts and causing negative emotions? Whether you have an identifiable past or present trauma, or it’s daily life that keeps compounding to make it feel like you are sinking in quicksand, EMDR therapy can help.
Trauma can leave a deep and lasting mark. Sometimes negative experiences can overwhelm the brain's ability to heal naturally. When this happens, the unprocessed experience is often linked to upsetting images, thoughts, emotions and even feeling the fight, flight or freeze response. EMDR therapy helps the brain process these memories so normal healing can resume; the experiences are integrated in a more adaptive manner. When the brain has completed the processing and the event is stored again with adaptive information, you are not just thinking you feel better, you actually are better.
What to Expect in a EMDR session: The 8 phases are: History and Treatment planning, Preparation, Assessment, Desensitization and Reprocessing, Installation, Body Scan, Closure, Reevaluation. I will discuss the 8 phases of EMDR as we go through them together in therapy. Different forms of BLS (bi-lateral stimulation) is used during the Desensitization phase; eye movements, hand buzzers or tapping, or audio stimulation. How long you stay in each phase depends on a lot of different variables, which we will talk about and work through. EMDR also uses a 3 pronged approach. We will discuss the past issues, present triggers and then talk about how to effectively manage symptoms in the future.
EMDR therapy does not require a lot of talking in the session. It does not require detailed descriptions of the distressing events, and does not require homework between sessions. Often, trauma is processed and resolved in fewer sessions using EMDR than if used with other therapies.
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EMDR Therapy can help you…
reduce symptoms of PTSD
heal from past events
improve self esteem
reduce symptoms of anxiety and depression
address phobias
have long term benefits
Frequently asked questions about EMDR and trauma therapy
FAQs
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Some signs and symptoms of truama can include: flashbacks or intrusive memories, avoidance, negative changes in thinking and mood, physical symtoms, etc. If you have any of these and suspect you may have experienced a trauma, it is beneficial to seek professional help.
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A trauma therapist comes from a trauma-informed background. Using their knowledge and expertise, creates a safe place to allow a person to acknowledge emotions around painful/stressful experiences and provide different techniques and coping skills to manage thoughts, feelings and behaviors.
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Yes! Anxiety can often stem from past experiences. Whether these experiences are major traumas, or negative events that have happened over and over. EMDR processes through the events that caused the anxiety, the same way it does for trauma.
Depression can make a person feel hopeless, overwhelmed or stuck. Depression is also one of many problems that can result from unprocessed distressing experiences. EMDR can help start the healing process again, thus causing current depressive symptoms to decrease. One of the major symptoms of depression is negative thoughts. EMDR can help reframe these negative thoughts, providing relief in this area as well.
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Yes! EMDR is an empirically-based, proven form of therapy for issues related to PTSD, other forms of trauma, anxiety, depression, phobias, and many other symptoms experienced by people.