EMDR Trauma Reprocessing Therapy in Denver
Are you ready for your past to finally stay in the past?
Do you feel stuck, unsure how to move through past traumatic experiences or disturbing events once and for all?
When any traumatic experience happens our overall sense of self and identity “fragments” as a way to protect ourselves (often seen through a fight, flight, freeze response). While this is extremely protective during a traumatic experience or painful event, it can get locked in the body, mind, and nervous system. This can lead to disturbing and distressing emotions, thoughts, images, and physical sensations after the trauma has passed.
Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) is an evidenced-based technique that is incredibly effective and long-lasting. EMDR allows you to process and release traumatic experiences by targeting memories, feelings, and body sensations that are trapped in your nervous system and moving them to their new home in your long-term memory. This way, events from your past will feel more like difficult memories, and less like a current rush of fear, anxiety, or panic.
EMDR Therapy Process
Another way to describe EMDR Therapy (without the funny acronym!) is to think of it as “Trauma Reprocessing Therapy.” Through our work together, you will reprocess the way that your brain, body, and emotions have processed and internalized the meaning behind a traumatic experience or painful memory.
EMDR Therapy uses bilateral stimulation to activate both hemispheres in your brain to allow your brain to tap into its own inner healing process. It is your brain that is doing the healing and you are in control.
Through EMDR, you will develop a more cohesive, and less fragmented, narrative connected to the traumatic experience(s) that will tell your body and mind that you are safe to regulate your emotions, thoughts, and body effectively. The process of EMDR often allows clients to be able to remember the event as a painful experience but be free from the uncontrollable rush of anxiety and fear that has accompanied them for years.
Cathryn was trained in EMDR through Trauma Recovery/EMDR HAP, an EMDRIA approved training facility.