PTSD & single-incident trauma
Accidents, assaults, medical events — one thing that has not stopped happening.
EMDR THERAPY · PLACEHOLDER CITY & VIRTUAL ACROSS THE STATE
You've done the talking. It's still in your body.
EMDR helps your brain finish processing what it couldn't at the time — so the memory stops running the present. I'm [Therapist Name], and I've spent [N] years doing this work with [population].
Currently accepting new clients. The consult is free.
If you're here, something isn't resolving.
You've told the story a dozen times and it still lands the same way. Knowing why it happened hasn't changed how it feels.
You react before you decide to. The response arrives fully formed, and the explanation comes afterwards.
You're functional. That's part of the problem — nothing looks broken enough to stop for.
What EMDR actually is
EMDR is a structured therapy for memories that never finished processing. When something overwhelming happens, the brain can store it raw — image, belief, emotion and body sensation locked together, still live years later. In EMDR we hold that memory in mind in short, contained sets while your attention moves rhythmically from side to side. The side-to-side part is not hypnosis and not magic; it occupies part of your attention so the memory can be revisited without being relived, and the brain does what it would have done at the time. Most people notice the memory becoming flatter, more distant, more like something that happened rather than something happening.
The eight phases, in plain termsHow it works
Three steps, in order, and never out of it.
- 01
Consult
A free 15 minutes. You describe what's going on, I tell you honestly whether EMDR fits and what I'd suggest if it doesn't.
- 02
Assessment & resourcing
We map history and build stability first — calm place, containment, grounding. Reprocessing does not begin in session one.
- 03
Reprocessing
Only once you have the tools to stop and settle. We work one target at a time and close every session deliberately.
What I work with
Specialties
Complex & childhood trauma
Not one bad thing. Years of small ones, and the beliefs they left behind.
Anxiety & panic
The alarm fires before you get a vote. We work on what set the threshold.
First responders & military
Cumulative exposure, and the professional habit of handling it alone.
Perinatal & birth trauma
You expected joy. You got vigilance, and nobody asked about the birth itself.
Grief & loss
When the last images crowd out everything that came before them.
A short self-check
Is EMDR the right tool for this?
Six statements. Answer how it has been over the last month.
Answered 0 of 6.
This is not a diagnostic tool and it does not screen for anything. It is a prompt for a conversation, nothing more.
Ready when you are.
Fifteen minutes, no cost, no obligation. If EMDR isn't the right fit I'll tell you that and suggest what is.