Like a foreign object in the body can cause infection, emotional trauma can fester inside the body and soul, causing painful psychological and physical symptoms. I utilize a powerful tool for addressing and resolving deep emotional wounds: EMDR.

This is a sample exercise that I may do with a client around anxiety. It incorporates EMDR and Internal Family Systems to help you identify and work with the family system that exists within your own mind.

In EMDR, we practice the presence of being. We practice the art of noticing. This presence is a powerful force. This is not just wishful thinking or nice thoughts.

Are we remembering them in the present or reliving them in the past? Remembering creates healing and movement, reliving perpetuates rumination and stagnation.

One major difference between EMDR and traditional talk therapy: learning to observe and notice your experience instead of trying to think our way to a solution. Below I hope to explain how this works and why it works.

Our natural tendency is to try to think harder and harder to solve what ails us. Our mind may tell us, “If I can just understand why that happened to me, I will feel better.”  While this makes perfect sense, the problem is that just knowing why something happened to us often doesn’t resolve our symptoms of trauma.