How is EMDR therapy different from other therapies?

Other therapies typically engage the logical, thinking part of your brain (the pre-frontal cortex), which can slow down the processing of distressing memories. EMDR accesses a different part of the brain where traumatic memories are stored and doesn’t require you to talk about them in detail. This often results in faster reprocessing of distressing experiences.

How does EMDR therapy work?

EMDR therapy involves identifying negative experiences and desired outcomes. Through sets of bilateral stimulation—via eye movements or tapping—the brain reprocesses those experiences. You'll report changes as processing continues until you feel lower emotional disturbance and increased positive feelings. EMDR connects both sides of your brain to form new associations with old memories, reducing emotional charge and improving clarity.

Can EMDR really help me?

EMDR is highly effective for many people. It can help strengthen internal resources, resolve relationship challenges (like unmet developmental needs from childhood), and process both big and small 't' traumas. These include chronic stress from work, relationships, or finances, which can accumulate and distress the nervous system over time.

What does EMDR therapy help with?

EMDR therapy can help address: anxiety, depression, stress, distressing life events, infidelity or betrayal trauma, childhood trauma, negative self-beliefs, relationship conflict, grief and loss, and worries about the future.

What changes will I notice with EMDR therapy?

People who try EMDR often report feeling calmer in stressful situations, less anxious, more at ease, and more able to move on from past events. Relationships may improve, memories become less emotionally charged, and individuals gain new perspectives, improved confidence, and greater self-compassion.

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You’ve done talk therapy before. And although talking with someone felt good and was helpful, it didn’t change things long term.

You experience the same persistent limiting beliefs and negative thoughts - not good enough, alone, not important. And they keep you from living your authentic life.

It’s time to do a different type of therapy. Therapy that will help you develop positive thoughts - that you are enough, you’re loved, and you are important.

EMDR is the therapy that will help you feel worthy, empowered, and let go of the pain of your past experiences.

Get something different out of therapy.

Are you ready to stop:

Feeling overwhelmed, sad, anxious

Feelings like a younger version of you is running your life

Living in dis-ease and never-ending stress

You’ve hurt long enough. Now it’s time to heal.

How much longer are you willing to live with the sadness, pain, believing it’s just the way it is?

Isn’t it time to heal? To reclaim your life from overwhelm, anxious feelings, others crossing your boundaries?

The sooner you start healing the emotional wounds that keep on opening when you least expect it, the sooner you’ll be living in ease, joy, and emotional wellbeing.

Give yourself permission to let go of what you “should be doing” and do something for yourself - HEAL.

Healing brings peace, release, freedom to be you. When you heal, your relationships improve, you can let go where before you were too afraid to do so. You can be your authentic self.

In-person or online, EMDR therapy with a certified EMDR therapist in Minnesota can help.

You can choose YOU.

It’s time to take the heavy baggage off your shoulders and leave it where it belongs - in the past.

If you’ve tried and tried healing or changing something in your life with no result…I can help you finally break free.

Is EMDR therapy effective?

EMDR is an extensively researched therapy proven to heal trauma and distressing life experiences.

Several studies found EMDR therapy as more effective than trauma-focused cognitive behavioral therapy.

Twelve randomized studies of the eye movement component noted fast decreases in negative emotions.

Numerous other evaluations and studies show that EMDR therapy provides relief from a variety of body-based complaints. (And body does keep the score.)

You can read more about EMDR therapy research here and here.

EMDR Therapy explained —

By bridging both sides of your brain through eye movements or tapping, EMDR therapy helps you heal.
Your brain makes new associations between different memories, creating a fuller picture.
As you reprocess memories, you take what you need from them and discard the rest. (You still remember that memory, it just will be much less emotionally charged.)
EMDR can easily be used in your therapy sessions to process and work through distressing memories or feelings in your body.
EMDR therapy can help you address and heal from:
- Anxiety
- Depression
- Stress
- Distressing life events
- Infidelity / Betrayal Trauma
- Childhood trauma
- Negative thoughts and beliefs about yourself
- Relationship conflicts & anxiety in past and current relationships
- Grief & loss
- Worries about the future
Many people who try EMDR say they notice:
- Feeling calmer in situations that used to be stressful
- Feeling more at ease
- Less anxious feelings
- Improved relationships because long-ago hurts no longer affect them
- Their memories move from incomplete fragments to a clear picture
- Feeling like they can move on from past situations and traumas more quickly
- Decreased emotional charge to their memories that used to be distressing
- New perspective and insight about past events
- improved confidence and self-compassion