It’s time to quiet that inner VOICE.
Therapy for Trauma & EMDR in Tennessee and Minnesota
Your past doesn’t have to define you. And your fear of the future doesn’t have to hold you back.
Is trauma making you feel exhausted and stuck?
You’re doing the best you can, but sometimes anxiety or trauma spills over into the other areas of your life despite your best efforts, leaving you feeling:
Overwhelmed by simple everyday tasks
Numb and disconnected to the world around you
Unable to focus and consumed with past experiences
“Healing doesn’t mean the damage never existed. It means the damage no longer controls your life.”
-Shah Rukh Khan
How therapy works
You’ve tried everything you can think of to feel better, but nothing is working…
Are you sick of just “getting by” in life? After trauma, we often learn to go through the motions of life, just attempting to get through a moment or to the next day. The physical symptoms can be cumbersome, leaving emotional symptoms left to feel unmanaged. Even on good days, you find the smallest things bringing you back to your past, finding difficulty in being present with the current beauty of life. You may recognize the need to transition, yet feel stuck and unable to move forward with traditional coping skills. It feels as though the world is moving forward, while you’re stuck in the past. EMDR therapy allows you a safe place to revisit your experiences and memories through a therapeutic lens, learning to find new meaning and balance within your past lived experiences.
Therapy for trauma can help you…
Decrease physical symptoms
Improve personal relationships
Increase self worth
Heal past wounds and triggers
Increase your coping skills
Frequently asked questions about trauma & emdr therapy
FAQs
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EMDR therapy was initially created for those experiences significant trauma or PTSD. As time has progressed, studies have found it to be successful in a wider variety of areas, including but not limited to anxiety, loss, depression, and stress management!
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That’s okay! I am trained in a variety of modalities and am happy to utilize Trauma Focused - Cognitive Behavioral Therapy techniques should you choose to utilize talk therapy rather than EMDR services. This treatment plan can also be reassessed and altered should you decide an alternative modality may be more appropriate throughout the duration of services.
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This varies from person to person, and can depend upon frequency of services. During our initial session, we will explore your goals and treatment options. We will spend a few sessions identifying coping skills, which will be utilized to assist in managing symptoms throughout the EMDR process. You will then have the opportunity to rewire previous trauma or self-defeating thought processes. Memories may be able to be resolved within one session, while others may require several sessions, but the goal is always toward increasing comfort with the memory during each session.