EMDR is an evidence-based way to process (or help something become ‘unstuck’) trauma, traumatic memories, experiences, and feelings. Trauma can be stored in the body, mind, behaviors, images, and sensations. EMDR is a therapeutic tool to help reprocess or rewrite the story of a traumatic event. EMDR does not remove the experience but helps you have more peace with the response of the experience.
I like to use talk therapy and EMDR, in order to help clients build the safety and relationship with me before diving in the deep end. I utilize a very client-centered, relational approach that helps me learn more about a client and what the client wants from their work in therapy.
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The way I conceptualize clients and their presenting issues, is rooted in seeing how the past is informing the present. I am listening to the nuances of a client’s experience, their potentially negative cognitions, and unhealtly patterns from childhood that once were helpful, but now are holding them back. Learning about someone’s early experiences and the dynamics they had with their family or caregivers gives great insight into their modern day relationships. As a relational therapist, understanding a client’s relationships or lack of, is really important in doing the work.
I navigate the work with clients to help them feel comfortable and safe in their bodies. There is much research to show how the mind and body are connected, and when we can calm and ground the body, this can have lasting effects on the mind.
Deep Brain Reorienting helps you process the shock your body holds onto from past experiences. This type of therapy does not require a heavy big T trauma experience, but simply an experience where you felt activated or bothered. We tap into the activation of those past expereinces to help your body release the sensations associated with them. The result is feeling somatic/body shifts and feeling more grounded and emotionally regulated.
If you are able to identify the cycle/pattern, then the hardest part is done. Finding a relational therapist as a bedrock for your thoughts will help you see outside of your “stuckness,” allowing you to create new and different paths.
While not all client’s come to therapy with deep/heavy trauma experiences (big ‘T’ trauma), many come with complex trauma (little ‘t‘ trauma) such as experiencing unsafe dynamics, emotional hardships, neglect, repeatedly throughout your life, which has similar effects on the mind and body as big T trauma.
It’s my goal, as a trauma informed therapist, to help clients process big ‘T’ and little ‘t’ traumas. Together we can work on how to stop the patterns/cycle, so we can be more at ease, have more control and awareness.
