EMDR therapy.
An integrative, extensively researched psychotherapy that helps people heal from trauma, anxiety, substance-related struggles, and stress-based disorders — through standardized protocols and structured reprocessing.
A structured approach — not talk therapy alone.
Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing is an eight-phase, evidence-based psychotherapy. It uses bilateral stimulation and specific protocols to help the brain reprocess overwhelming or unresolved experiences so they no longer drive present symptoms.
EMDR is widely researched and used to treat post-traumatic stress, anxiety, chronic stress, phobias, grief, and performance blocks.
Trauma lives in the nervous system.
Insight alone doesn't always release the body's stored response to overwhelming experience. That's why you can understand a pattern completely and still find yourself living inside it.
EMDR works with the mind and body together. It doesn't require reliving trauma in detail — it works with your nervous system's natural ability to heal and orient to the present.
“Therapy that helps your nervous system catch up to what your mind already knows.”
How a course of EMDR unfolds.
We map your history, current stressors, and treatment goals. No prescriptive assumptions.
Skills for stabilization and nervous system regulation come before reprocessing.
Structured sessions to reprocess targeted memories, beliefs, and triggers.
New associations, new felt sense. We check that gains hold outside session.
We confirm the target is fully resolved at a body level, not just cognitively.
Measurable goals. Therapy is designed to conclude with lasting change.
Clinicians trained in this care.
Adolescent and Adult Psychotherapist
Adult Psychotherapist
Psychotherapist — Licensed Clinical Social Worker
Therapist
Common questions
It depends on what you're bringing in. Single-incident work — one recent event, one specific fear — can often resolve in a handful of reprocessing sessions after preparation. Complex or developmental trauma takes longer, sometimes months, because the nervous system needs time to build the safety and skills that make reprocessing effective. Your clinician will lay out an expected arc during treatment planning and revisit it at defined progress reviews.
No. EMDR is designed so that reprocessing does not require detailed verbal retelling. You stay in control of what you share out loud, and much of the work happens internally as the brain moves stuck material forward. Your clinician monitors regulation the whole time and slows or pauses the work if activation is climbing beyond a workable range.
Yes. EMDR is recognized as an effective treatment for trauma and PTSD by the World Health Organization, the American Psychological Association, and the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, and is supported by decades of clinical outcomes research. It's also widely used for anxiety, phobias, grief, and stress-based patterns beyond formal PTSD diagnoses.
No. EMDR is regularly used for anxiety, phobias, panic, grief, performance blocks, and chronic stress patterns. Many clients arrive without a formal diagnosis and describe a sense of being 'stuck' — knowing something intellectually but not being able to feel it. EMDR is designed for exactly that gap between insight and lived experience.
Yes, for eligible adult clients. Certain clinicians on our team see clients virtually within the states they're licensed in. Virtual EMDR uses the same eight-phase protocol; only the format of bilateral stimulation changes. Mention virtual preference in your inquiry and we'll route you to a clinician who offers it.
The intake process includes a clinical assessment. If EMDR is well-suited to your presentation, we begin with preparation and stabilization before any reprocessing. If a different modality would serve you better — or if you need to build regulation capacity first — we'll say so and adjust the plan.