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Transform your life with EMDR therapy in Minnesota

You need something different out of therapy.

You’ve done talk therapy before. And although talking with someone felt good and was helpful, it didn’t change things long term.

You experience the same persistent limiting beliefs and negative thoughts - not good enough, alone, not important. And they keep you from living your authentic life.

It’s time to do a different type of therapy. Therapy that will help you develop positive thoughts - that you are enough, you’re loved, and you are important.

EMDR is the therapy that will help you feel worthy, empowered, and let go of the pain of your past experiences.

You’re ready to stop…

Feeling overwhelmed, sad, anxious

Feelings like a younger version of you is running your life

Living in dis-ease and never-ending stress

You’ve hurt long enough. Now it’s time to heal.

How much longer are you willing to live with the sadness, pain, believing it’s just the way it is?

Isn’t it time to heal? To reclaim your life from overwhelm, anxious feelings, others crossing your boundaries?

The sooner you start healing the emotional wounds that keep on opening when you least expect it, the sooner you’ll be living in ease, joy, and emotional wellbeing.

Give yourself permission to let go of what you “should be doing” and do something for yourself - HEAL.

Healing brings peace, release, freedom to be you. When you heal, your relationships improve, you can let go where before you were too afraid to do so. You can be your authentic self.

In-person or online, EMDR therapy with a certified EMDR therapist in Minnesota can help.

At the end of the day, I want you to know:

You can choose YOU.

It’s time to take the heavy baggage off your shoulders and leave it where it belongs - in the past.

If you’ve tried and tried healing or changing something in your life with no result…I can help you finally break free.

EMDR therapy is effective…

EMDR is an extensively researched therapy proven to heal trauma and distressing life experiences.

Several studies found EMDR therapy as more effective than trauma-focused cognitive behavioral therapy.

Twelve randomized studies of the eye movement component noted fast decreases in negative emotions.

Numerous other evaluations and studies show that EMDR therapy provides relief from a variety of body-based complaints. (And body does keep the score.)

You can read more about EMDR therapy research here and here.

EMDR Therapy explained —

  • By bridging both sides of your brain through eye movements or tapping, EMDR therapy helps you heal.

    Your brain makes new associations between different memories, creating a fuller picture.

    As you reprocess memories, you take what you need from them and discard the rest. (You still remember that memory, it just will be much less emotionally charged.)

    EMDR can easily be used in your therapy sessions to process and work through distressing memories or feelings in your body.

  • EMDR therapy can help you address and heal from:

    • Anxiety

    • Depression

    • Stress

    • Distressing life events

    • Infidelity / Betrayal Trauma

    • Childhood trauma

    • Negative thoughts and beliefs about yourself

    • Relationship conflicts & anxiety in past and current relationships

    • Grief & loss

    • Worries about the future

  • Many people who try EMDR say they notice:

    • Feeling calmer in situations that used to be stressful

    • Feeling more at ease

    • Less anxious feelings

    • Improved relationships because long-ago hurts no longer affect them

    • Their memories move from incomplete fragments to a clear picture

    • Feeling like they can move on from past situations and traumas more quickly

    • Decreased emotional charge to their memories that used to be distressing

    • New perspective and insight about past events

    • improved confidence and self-compassion

Is EMDR right for you?

EMDR therapy is right for you if…

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You carry tension and stress in your body. EMDR actively addresses the traumas your body is holding onto.

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You experience anxiety, grief, fears, hold limiting beliefs about yourself, and want to break free.

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You have been living with the aftermath of trauma, and it’s been negatively affecting your relationships and your life.

Questions? I’ve got answers.

Frequently asked questions about EMDR therapy —

  • Other therapies engage the logical, thinking, part of your brain (called the pre-frontal cortex). This can slow down processing of the distressing memories.

    EMDR doesn’t require you to talk about your memories in order to process them.  We engage a different part of the brain where the memories are stored (something talk therapy doesn’t do).

    This results in faster reprocessing of the distressing memories.  

  • Yes! A lot of stuff can show up in couples therapy, including negative core beliefs and distressing memories that block us from fully engaging and absorbing the good that happens in couples therapy. EMDR therapy helps address these blocks.

  • You’ll be asked a series of questions to access negative experiences and desired resolutions. Sets of rapid bilateral stimulation (via eye movement or tapping) will occur for brief periods of time. You’ll report any changes you notice, as the brain will be working through the experience during the stimulation. Processing will continue until you experience lower levels of disturbance and higher levels of positive thoughts and affect.

    You can read more about EMDR on the international associations’ homepage here.

  • It’s highly likely that EMDR will help you, because it can be used for:

    • Resourcing - With the help of EMDR we will strengthen your internal resources. In EMDR, we’ll use images, emotions, positive thoughts, and body sensations to increase feelings of calm, ease, and safety.

    • Resolving relationship challenges - We can use EMDR to heal your unmet developmental needs (which happens when you grow up with an emotionally unavailable parent, or experienced neglect or abuse in childhood).

    • Resolving trauma - I also support clients with small “t” traumas - chronic stressful conditions, such as interpersonal conflict, work stress, financial stress.  Small “t” traumas’ big impact is the cumulative effect - multiple small “t” traumas that continually distress the nervous system - leading to emotional challenges in relationships and life.

Your story is welcome here.