Living with trauma is an ordeal.
That past traumatic event keeps you in a fight, flight, or freeze mode. Something happens that reminds you of that event, triggering a negative response on your part. As a result, you tend to avoid people and places that might serve as a reminder of that past trauma.
Terrible things happen in life that are outside of our control. Our brains naturally recover from traumatic memories and events through communication between different parts (the amygdala, hippocampus, and prefrontal cortex).
The way we experience disturbing events or trauma can affect how we live our lives in the present. Thoughts, feelings, and physical sensations experienced during the traumatic event can still affect how you think, act, and feel today. Trauma can impact you emotionally and physically – creating negative thoughts, nightmares, panic attacks, etc.
Fortunately, there are therapeutic tools, such as EMDR, that can help you process your trauma differently, allowing you to live in the present rather than the past.
What is EMDR?
EMDR is a different type of therapy designed to resolve unprocessed traumatic memories in the brain without re-exposing or re-traumatizing you in the process.
EMDR doesn’t require talking about the trauma narrative in detail or completing homework between sessions.
When distress from old events still feels like part of your present, EMDR can facilitate processing these memories, allowing the brain’s normal healing process to resume and rewrite how it experiences the original event.
“How do I know EMDR is right for me?”
EMDR can help individuals of all ages and can address a wide range of challenges. A mutual agreement between therapist and client is necessary before deciding EMDR is a good fit for you.
We will focus on negative images, beliefs, emotions, and sensations in your body and discover the stories you prefer to align with instead.