EMDR Therapy in Frederick, MD for Trauma and Lasting Healing
EMDR therapy is a powerful, evidence-based approach that helps you process past experiences and reduce the intensity and frequency of painful thoughts, emotions, and patterns. I offer EMDR therapy virtually in Frederick, MD for individuals struggling with trauma, disordered eating, and relationship issues that keep them feeling stuck.
What is EMDR?
EMDR is a structured, evidence-based approach designed to help the brain and body process and integrate past experiences that leave clients feeling stuck in dysfunctional patterns.
Rather than relying on talk therapy like many traditional therapeutic approaches, EMDR uses bilateral stimulation - movements across the body’s midline - to activate the same mechanism in your brain as REM sleep to support the brain in integrating past experiences so they feel less overwhelming and no longer impact you the same way in the present. This helps you keep past experiences in the past, rather than having them bleed into the present.
What EMDR Can Help With
While EMDR was originally created to treat trauma and post traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), it is now used for a variety of issues, including anxiety, depression, eating disorders, substance use, anger management, dissociation, complex PTSD, attachment wounds, negative self-beliefs, and dysfunctional relationship patterns.
How I Use EMDR in Therapy
I often integrate EMDR into my work with people recovering from eating disorders and trauma. Many of the patterns around food, body image, and relationships are rooted in earlier experiences, many of which have not been fully processed. EMDR allows us to address underlying experiences that have left behind feelings of defectiveness, powerlessness, and vulnerability and replace them with feelings of worthiness, safety, and autonomy. Because of the nature of memory reprocessing, these new feelings create lasting and sustainable change.
Learn More About EMDR
EMDR for Adults (via EMDRIA)
Video about what EMDR is like and how it used
EMDR and Your Brain
Trauma and the Brain
Eight Phases of EMDR