EMDR
EMDR Therapy in Salt Lake City
EMDR
EMDR Therapy in Salt Lake City
Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR)
This powerful therapy was originally developed for those who have experienced traumatic events in their lives that are causing symptoms and suffering.
Now, we use it for just about everything. Your therapist will talk to you more about this if interested and/or they think it would help you reach your goals.
The Goal:
Keep the past in the past where it belongs and reprocess memories that may be contributing to current difficulties.
The Treatment:
Using bilateral stimulation by engaging both hemispheres of the brain allows for desensitization and reprocessing of memories and experiences that impact you today.
Your therapist will work with you to feel comfortable and use computer software to conduct bilateral stimulation of eyes (back and forth motion) or sound (pings into each year).
Once you feel safe, processing begins. Unlike other trauma treatments, EMDR puts you in the driver seat, meaning you direct when you need to stop, take a break, or skip for the session.
Some of the problem areas EMDR can address:
Anxiety, depression, PTSD, panic, phobias, and shame…really anything that feels very entrenched, stuck, or someone has tried other therapies and nothing has worked.
How we use EMDR:
We do a phased approach in helping to develop coping skills such as mindfulness and safe space imagery so that the client feels comfortable and builds trust in the therapist.
We then work on what beliefs, images, sensations, emotions, and/or urges are bringing the client into therapy and trace this back to traumatic events that need to be processed. The idea of this is to go to the source and help work through the events that caused the current difficulties.
You can think of EMDR like how when you are really bothered by something at night and then you sleep on it and feel better the next day or even wonder to yourself why it bothered you so much. The “sleeping on it” part allowed you to process whatever it was during REM sleep.
EMDR is basically replicating REM sleep so that we can quickly process events from the past. One common misconception is that someone has to have one or more traumas that were life threatening or what we call a big “T” trauma.
However, we also have small “t” traumas that have a huge impact on us later in life. Examples of this are being left out by friends, bullied, or a parent getting angry with you for failing a test, and so on.
Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR)
This powerful therapy was originally developed for those who have experienced traumatic events in their lives that are causing symptoms and suffering.
Now, we use it for just about everything. Your therapist will talk to you more about this if interested and/or they think it would help you reach your goals.
The Goal:
Keep the past in the past where it belongs and reprocess memories that may be contributing to current difficulties.
The Treatment
Using bilateral stimulation by engaging both hemispheres of the brain allows for desensitization and reprocessing of memories and experiences that impact you today.
Your therapist will work with you to feel comfortable and use computer software to conduct bilateral stimulation of eyes (back and forth motion) or sound (pings into each year).
Once you feel safe, processing begins. Unlike other trauma treatments, EMDR puts you in the driver seat, meaning you direct when you need to stop, take a break, or skip for the session.
Some of the problem areas EMDR can address:
Anxiety, depression, PTSD, panic, phobias, and shame…really anything that feels very entrenched, stuck, or someone has tried other therapies and nothing has worked.
How we use EMDR:
We do a phased approach in helping to develop coping skills such as mindfulness and safe space imagery so that the client feels comfortable and builds trust in the therapist.
We then work on what beliefs, images, sensations, emotions, and/or urges are bringing the client into therapy and trace this back to traumatic events that need to be processed. The idea of this is to go to the source and help work through the events that caused the current difficulties.
You can think of EMDR like how when you are really bothered by something at night and then you sleep on it and feel better the next day or even wonder to yourself why it bothered you so much. The “sleeping on it” part allowed you to process whatever it was during REM sleep.
EMDR is basically replicating REM sleep so that we can quickly process events from the past. One common misconception is that someone has to have one or more traumas that were life threatening or what we call a big “T” trauma.
However, we also have small “t” traumas that have a huge impact on us later in life. Examples of this are being left out by friends, bullied, or a parent getting angry with you for failing a test, and so on.
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