Therapy at the pace your nervous system can hold.

EMDR — Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing — brings the body into the therapeutic process. Using bilateral stimulation (usually eye movements, tapping, or gentle sound), we revisit experiences that once felt overwhelming so your brain and body can reprocess them with greater safety in the present.

As those experiences become integrated, present-moment intensity eases. You learn to regulate your nervous system, reduce emotional reactivity, and build self-confidence toward the person you want to be. The memory doesn’t disappear — it stops running your life.

• PTSD and single-incident trauma
• Childhood wounds and family-of-origin patterns
• Anxiety, overwhelm, and emotional reactivity
• Grief and loss that still feels raw
• Shame, self-worth, and the inner critic
• Feeling stuck even after years of talk therapy

In my practice, EMDR rarely stands alone. Most people I work with move fluidly between EMDR, Internal Family Systems (IFS), and Brainspotting depending on what’s alive in a given session. You can read more about how I work.

The first EMDR session is almost never about reprocessing. It’s about preparation — understanding your history, identifying the memory or theme we might work on later, and making sure you have resources to steady yourself if things get activating.

We’ll practice the bilateral stimulation itself in a low-stakes way so it feels familiar, and we’ll install a ‘calm place’ — a felt-sense image you can return to any time. You’re always in the driver’s seat: we only move to reprocessing when you feel ready, and even then we go at the pace your nervous system can hold.

Some experiences benefit from more focused time than a weekly hour session allows. EMDR intensives offer extended sessions — typically two to three hours, sometimes over a half or full day — so we can settle in, build resources, and do deeper reprocessing work in a single container.

I really enjoy intensive sessions because they allow clients to go deeper and stay there, accessing greater opportunities for healing. This often helps clients who have become stuck in previous therapies, need to access deeper feelings, or want to move through a specific memory or pattern with more continuity than weekly work allows.

We’ll plan the structure together ahead of time, and we always move at the pace your nervous system can hold. If you’re curious whether an intensive format is right for you, we can discuss it during a free consultation.