To borrow an apt description “EMDR therapy is an integrative, client-centered approach.” It helps clients whose negative life experiences still negatively impact their lives.
EMDR therapy is built on the understanding that we all have the natural ability to heal.
Then, EMDR therapy takes this natural healing ability and helps our beautifully designed brains to reprocess distressing memories and emotions.
It also addresses images, sounds, and thoughts we associate with these memories. And the stress our bodies hold as a result of holding onto distressing stuff for years.
Reprocessing means that our emotions, beliefs and body sensations we hold onto, often unknowingly, are integrated – we take from it what’s useful and ditch the rest.
The honey is in the reprocessing. It’s in allowing our brains to do what it couldn’t when we first lived through the traumatic or distressing experience (or years of them).
Allowing our brains to actually fully process these experiences.
Discovered and initially researched by Francine Shapiro in the late 1980’s, EMDR therapy has been continually researched, tweaked, improved, and perfected since then.
To learn more about EMDR therapy, get in touch. Contact Ania today.