Video and In-Person EMDR Counseling in California.
EMDR
Tired of just wishing your problems away.
Every day feels heavy and like you’re tiptoeing on tortilla chips. Trying to keep it all together so it doesn’t break into a million pieces.
And it’s sort-of been your normal…so you just keep tiptoeing and dealing…but it is catching up to you.
You feel overly protective and want to wrap everyone in bubble wrap. You go overboard with the things you didn’t get from your childhood. And the guilt you feel with most moments…is getting very old, to say the least.
You feel reactive, panicked and worried most of the day and no amount of glasses of wine, scrolling on social media or online shopping is going to make it go away.
And it’s truly not because of what is in front of you, but what’s in the past. What you’ve gone through, prior to now, has been painful and heartbreaking.
The best version of you.
You’re sick of not feeling like you’ve been good enough and that you’re not the best version of yourself.
And you have been desperately wanting to be this other version of yourself.
The version of yourself that finally healed from what you’ve experienced, your childhood, the past. All the hard and haunting sh*t you’ve been through…
so that you can show up in the now feeling like a breath of fresh air.
Imagine feeling confident and grounded as you go about your day. Without the reactivity. Without the panic and worry. Without the guilt of feeling like you are messing it all up.
- Jamie Harris, LPCC
“Talk therapy is me coming to your garden and trimming the weeds down…but eventually those weeds will grow back. Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) is ripping the weeds out at the root so they never return.”
The magic of EMDR therapy.
You and everyone around you get to experience the best version of you, because you did the healing with EMDR therapy, and it was so much more than you thought it would be.
There will be sessions of digging deep into what you’ve been through, releasing the pain and using a specialty method like EMDR…
…to actually have the relief feel permanent. You don’t have to talk about it, session after session and fight through the coping skills outside of sessions.
You get to feel supported, like you have a partner in the process, and even get some laughs and lightness along the way.
And at the end…you can take a deep breath and know that you were always supposed to feel this way.
What does EMDR look like in our sessions?
1.
A thorough intake session or two where we figure out the root of what impacts you today and what you want relief around. And no worries if it feels like there’s a lot, we will sort it all out.
2.
We pick memories or moments that you re-live and re-feel as you cross your arms and tap your shoulders. We will check-in throughout the process, to make sure you are comfortable.
3.
This back and forth or “bilateral” tapping, while you think about the hard sh*t you’ve been through creates deep and lasting healing, usually starting in the first 3 or 4 sessions.
