EMDR: What is it and how can it help me?

Here is a list of some of the problems that EMDR has been used successfully to resolve:

EMDR works with children and adults on all of these issues and more!

EMDR is an acronym for Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing, a remarkable therapy that can help resolve painful life patterns—most often in many fewer sessions than talk therapy. Proven over a 20 year history of treatment and extensive EMDR research, this treatment works to resolve the way traumatic memories are stored in the brain.

When traumas occur, they often get recorded on an "island" of the brain, cut off from communication with the rest of our brains. Since these islands don't get the benefit of new information, those traumatic memories exist in us frozen in time.  This is why people still flinch thirty years after their fathers hit them.

Based on what we now know about brain plasticity, it seems that EMDR sets up the brain to be able to be "re-wired," and then guides the development of these neural pathways between the island of traumatic memory and the person's current perspective.

Once the island is able to get the message that the trauma is in the past, and what seemed true at the time of the trauma is no longer true, the symptoms of PTSD or post traumatic stress disorder, phobias, low self-esteem, inhibited performance, depression, anxiety, grief, insomnia, panic, procrastination, remnants of child abuse, etc., often just vanish!  This works because very often the root of these symptoms is some form of trauma.

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