What is EMDR Therapy?

EMDR Therapy focuses on the individual’s present concerns and symptoms while proposing emotionally charged experiences from one’s past. This may have a dominating effect on one’s current emotions, sensations, and thoughts. EMDR therapy processing helps you break through the emotional blocks that may be keeping you from living an adaptive and emotionally fulfilling life.

What does EMDR treat?

EMDR therapy has proven to be effective in treating trauma and PTSD. It is also highly effective in treating mental health symptoms, such as anxiety, depression, phobias, and panic disorders. EMDR therapy is also useful in addressing performance-related symptoms at work, such as public speaking, assertiveness, and enhancing communication skills.

How does Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing Therapy work?

EMDR uses rapid sets of eye movements to help you update disturbing experiences, much like what occurs when we sleep. During sleep, we alternate between regular sleep and REM (rapid eye movement). This sleep pattern helps you process things that are troubling you. EMDR therapy replicates this sleep pattern by alternating between eye movements and brief reports or processing of what you are noticing. This alternating process helps you update your memories to a healthier emotional presence.

What is unique about EMDR Therapy in Florida?

EMDR focuses on the brain’s ability to constantly learn by tapping into neuroplasticity. A past experience, say if you were not as a child, becomes updated with present information, such as, “I am safe now.”. Adaptive learning is constantly updating memory network systems.  It helps break through the interference of past painful experiences. EMDR uses a set of procedures to organize your negative and positive feelings, emotions, and thoughts. Then uses bilateral stimulation, such as eye movements or alternating tapping, as the way to help you effectively work through painful past experiences.