I offer a safe space for you to bring your pain and to be heard and acknowledged. I utilize EMDR to offer you a deeper understanding of yourself, your personal history, and the traumatic event itself. Through EMDR, I serve as a trained facilitator to help free you of the symptoms of trauma/PTSD and empower you with the ability to be autonomous and make choices that are in your own best interest.

Research shows that the human brain has a malleable nature that allows us, over time, to change how it functions in a positive way. EMDR is a process that capitalizes on this quality and can actually change the way you think. Right now, memories of the traumatic event are the primary focus of your conscious and unconscious mind. All of your thoughts are being filtered—colored by the lens of those painful memories—so there is no separation from the past and the present.

EMDR can unlock those memories and rewire your brain, allowing you to process and let go of the trauma so that your thoughts and emotions are no longer bound by the experience. 

Trauma can be a complicated subject because it affects individuals in so many different ways. Together, we will assess your readiness for EMDR. You may want to start by just talking about your experience, and that is perfectly okay. My specialized training in insight-oriented therapy can give you greater self-awareness and an understanding of how past experiences may be unconsciously influencing your current emotions and behaviors. Depending on your level of comfort, we can also switch back and forth between talk therapy and EMDR as needed. When you are ready, we can tackle your trauma with EMDR therapy, our most powerful tool.

Trauma can be categorized into “Big T’s” and “Little t’s”

A “Big T” trauma: is a single incident trauma or life changing event. A “Big T,” would be a single or series of severely traumatic experiences. Common examples of “Big T” traumas would include; war, rape and major accidents. “Big T” traumas that are single incidents can process quickly with EMDR therapy.

“Little t” traumas are an accumulation or a series of traumatic or abusive events. Several “Little t’s” can be described as a series of less traumatic events over a period of time. Some of these events may not even be recognizable to the individual as a “Little t,” but remain as implicit memory. Some examples of “Little t” traumas include; childhood neglect and abuse, repeated verbal abuse from a close family member or authority figure, bullying, domestic abuse and complicated grief. “Little t” traumas are more common than “Big T” traumas. In fact, people may not even identify them as traumatic. “Little t” traumas usually require more EMDR therapy sessions to process.