EMDR Therapy in Texas

What is EMDR?

Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) is an evidence-based therapy that helps people recover from trauma and difficult life experiences. EMDR is based on the belief that trauma is stuck unprocessed in the memory network. When this occurs, seeking professional help is recommended.

EMDR uses bilateral stimulation to activate the brain's natural information processing system, similar to what occurs during rapid eye movement sleep (REM sleep). The information processing system then integrates the memory networks with other information allowing healing to occur.

What is bilateral stimulation? Bilateral stimulation is a visual, auditory or tactile stimuli that fluctuates between the left and right side of the body. The most effective stimuli is the eye movement, where your eyes follow a guiding instrument as it moves from side to side. As an alternative, touch, pulsers or sounds are used, according to your needs.

What can EMDR do for me?

Reduce distress caused by memories from the past or fears of the future that are creating disturbance in the present.
Reduce distress caused by ongoing stressful situations.
Regulate the nervous system.
Process difficult life experiences without revisiting every detail of the difficult memory.
Provide you tools that will help you manage stressful situations more efficiently.
Reach your goals faster. EMDR tends to yield faster results than traditional psychotherapy. Some clients experience symptom relieve in fewer sessions when compared to traditional psychotherapy.
Use the natural brain's healing resources to process distressing memories.

EMDR can help with

Acute stress
Anxiety (generalized anxiety, social anxiety, etc.)
Trauma (developmental, sexual, medical, car accidents, natural and man made disasters, etc.)
PTSD

Traumatic birth experience
Performance enhancement
Excoriation / Skin-picking / Dermatillomania
And much more...

EMDR can help with so much more. If you wonder if EMDR might be helpful for you, request a free phone consultation.

EMDR Intensives

Sometimes weekly therapy sessions are not the most convenient because it takes a longer time span to resolve the issue. EMDR intensives provide the opportunity to do concentrated therapy. It is similar to a retreat, where you spend several days focusing on your healing. Each day, we'll take a deep dive into reducing the distress.

Intensives are specially beneficial for those whose symptoms are disrupting their daily functioning or those who are too busy to have weekly therapy. Intensives seeks to restore balance and function in a shorter period of time.

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Advanced EMDR

In addition to the EMDR Basic Training, I am trained in the following:

EMDR 2.0: An Enhanced Version of EMDR Therapy
Attachment Focused EMDR (AF-EMDR)
Integrated Treatment of Chronic Pain and Chronic Health Conditions
Advanced Flash Technique
Early Intervention & Ongoing Traumatic Stress protocols developed by Dr. Ignacio Jarero and Lucina Artigas. These protocols are used to help individuals and groups living with acute, recent or ongoing traumatic stress caused by natural or man-made disasters, war, terrorists attacks, constant violence, and secondary trauma (including first-responders), amongst others. If you need individual interventions or are looking to provide group interventions, please contact me.

Included are the Acute Stress Syndrome Stabilization (ASSYST-Individual, ASSYST-Group, ASSYST-Remote, ASSYST-Remote-Group) intervention, the EMDR-Protocol for Recent Critical Incidents and Ongoing Traumatic Stress (EMDR-PRECI) and the EMDR Integrative Group Treatment Protocol Adapted for Ongoing Traumatic Stress (EMDR-IGTP-OTS).

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