EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing)

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I’m not good enough…

I’m alone…

I’m not important…

I’m not capable…

I’m not safe…

Have you been feeling not good enough, not worthy enough, or just not enough? Maybe you have had these feelings your whole life, or maybe they have just started recently. Are they impacting your day to day and making each day a little bit harder?

Life does not have to be this way. You deserve to feel like enough, to feel safe, to feel capable. You deserve to shake that feeling of being stuck or like you are carrying around a backpack full of bricks of past issues.

Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) is an evidence-based treatment modality that can be used with a wide variety of issues to get you feeling more like yourself and feeling more capable to take on your day. It is a modality that truly works and can help shift the way you remember and feel about yourself and the world around you. It can support to shake all those negative, intrusive thoughts, and you deserve that.

Our trained EMDR clinicians have a huge passion for EMDR therapy because they have seen just how drastically it has helped people. It is not your traditional talk therapy, and is actually one of the few modalities where there can be very little talking if you need there to be! It is also a modality a lot of people feel drawn to if they’ve gone through talk therapy and it just hasn’t been quite enough. Our clinicians do EMDR therapy in Minnesota and online through various other states.

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What is EMDR? What can EMDR be used for?

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Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) is an evidence-based treatment modality that has been around since the 1980s. It remains one of the gold standards of trauma treatment, although, we can use EMDR to support with a wide variety of issues.

EMDR works by applying bilateral stimulation, or moving both sides of the body, in order to make a memory lose it’s emotional charge. You would still remember the memory, but you would be able to think about it in a way where it would not be over-powering or feel traumatic any longer, rather becoming just something that happened. This type of treatment works really well at getting to the root of an individual’s challenges and knocking it out so that it is no longer a problem.

We do EMDR therapy in Minnesota and across various other states online. We can utilize a wide variety of different types of bilateral stimulation virtually such as eye movement, tapping, or sounds.

While EMDR gets talked a lot about in terms of Post-traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) or other forms of trauma, it can be used for a wide variety of issues or challenges such as intrusive thoughts from anxiety or with postpartum.

EMDR is nothing like traditional talk therapy and most individuals find EMDR to be a very deep, rich sort of treatment. Because we are utilizing a protocol for EMDR and directly targeting the root of a person’s issues, it also typically moves a lot quicker towards healing than traditional talk therapy.

Click here to watch a short video that does an amazing job at explaining a little bit more about EMDR.

EMDR intensives are longer sessions for EMDR that can bring individuals to healing quicker than traditional 50 minute sessions. In an EMDR intensive session, you would have more time processing your identified target which can lead you to fully reprocessing a memory or a handful of memories in the course of a single session, versus maybe not having time to complete a full reprocessing in the course of a 50 minute session.

Intensives also eliminate a lot of the “fluff” from traditional sessions such as checking in about your week, any stressful things that may have come up in-between sessions, etc.

Individuals will do intensives for a lot of different reasons. Sometimes individuals like intensives because they are excited to get to feeling better and wanting to find that healing more quickly. Other times individuals will do EMDR intensives due to having limited time due to school schedules, traveling, work, etc.

We offer EMDR intensives online and offer a wide range of lengths of sessions in order to accommodate most individuals needs and scheduling concerns and do offer weekend availability for these as well. Contact us to learn more about current availability!

EMDR Intensives

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Frequently Asked Questions

  • Yes! Some clients actually find EMDR to be more effective online due to being able to be in their own space and being able to decompress at home afterwards. We can use the same range of bilateral stimulation that we would in person via online EMDR therapy. Our clinicians can practice EMDR online in Minnesota and across several other states.

  • EMDR does not make you forget the memory, but rather supports in that memory losing it’s emotional charge. Instead of thinking of a memory and having strong emotional reaction to it such as fear, anxiety, or overwhelm, you would just simply remember it in the way you would other memories that are neutral such as what you had for dinner last night.

  • This is a great question and one that is very hard to answer because it depends on the individual. Most individuals find that EMDR leads them to find healing quicker than traditional talk therapy, but all depends on how much someone is coming in with, how frequent they are seen, and how their brain responds to processing.

  • EMDR was initially created and researched while utilizing 90 minute sessions. EMDR intensives are simply longer sessions, sometimes up to several hours, in which you are meeting with your therapist and doing EMDR. The benefit to intensives is that individuals typically find healing a lot faster. Intensives can be especially useful if you are limited on time, want to progress through treatment quickly, or if you just need more time with your clinician. We offer EMDR intensives online in Minnesota and across various other states.