EMDR

Your Mind Moved on Without Telling Your Body

It ended a long time ago: the breakup, the loss, the house you grew up in.

Your body hasn’t gotten the message.

Conflict starts, and you shut the door before you’ve decided anything.

A tone of voice, a hallway, a certain silence, and the whole thing fires as though it’s happening now.

Your Pain Lives Deeper Than Words

By now you should be fine, and you’re not.

You’ve read the books and tried to think your way through it.

Those reactions you wish would go away are your body’s way of keeping you safe.

They were built when you needed them, and nobody has told them since that the danger passed.

EMDR Updates the Old File Your Brain Left Open

Ordinary experiences get filed: sorted, dated, set down in the past where they belong.

What overwhelmed you never finished getting filed, so it stayed raw and switched on, still carrying today’s date.

Reprocessing gives your brain the input it needs to finish that job: gentle alternating attention, left and right, while you hold the memory in mind.

You won’t be asked to narrate the whole story, since describing it at length puts your brain back inside it.

Two Small Devices Bring This into Your Living Room

I’m trained in EMDR, and I reach for it when what happened to you is loud in your body and thin on words.

Alternating left-right input used to mean sitting in a room with me, tracking my hand with your eyes.

I point clients to wearable devices from Touchpoint Solutions instead: two small units, one in each hand, buzzing alternately, left, then right, then left.

That’s what makes this work over video, from a chair you already trust, anywhere in California.

Let Your Body Catch Up to Your Life

The memory keeps its facts and loses its charge.

Conflict starts, and you stay in the room with it.

Your old survival responses get updated to a world that isn’t dangerous, and you feel grounded in the present, once and for all.

We’ll do that work in a space that’s calm, sacred, and real, where your emotions are welcome and your body finally gets to rest.

Start With a Free 20-Minute Consultation

Let’s schedule a free 20-minute consultation and find out whether EMDR fits what you’ve been going through.

Send a message through my Psychology Today listing or email me at Lcphd@hushmail.com.

Leave a voicemail if you’d rather call, because my phone turns away calls that carry no message. You’ve done the reading and the thinking already; let’s do the part that reaches deeper than words.