EMDR and Brainspotting
in California

Healing can start here

 

Eye Movement Desensitization & Reprocessing

EMDR therapy is an evidence-based method to treat a wide range of issues that has been proven effective including but not limited to:

  • PTSD

  • Complex PTSD (C-PTSD)

  • Childhood Trauma or Attachment Disruptions

  • Anxiety

  • Panic Attacks

  • Depression

  • Phobias

  • Dissociation

  • Grief & Loss

  • Sexual Abuse & Sexual Assault

  • Physical, Emotional, Verbal Abuse or Neglect

 

How does EMDR help?

EMDR is an effective treatment option for anyone who has tried therapy before and continue to feel stuck and want to work through past issues to alleviate current symptoms. It helps people heal from physical and emotional suffering that are a result from distressing life experiences.

When we experience a disturbing event, the stress responses (fight, flight, freeze, fawn) are part of our survival instincts. The images, thoughts, emotions, and body sensations remain or gets “stuck” and creates an overwhelming experience of feeling like you are back in that moment in time.

EMDR helps the brain re-process these earlier memories that have contributed to the present day symptoms and allows the natural healing to continue. EMDR helps with the following:

  • Improves Sleep

  • Increases Relaxation

  • Regulation of Emotions

  • Improves Focus & Creativity

  • Feeling More Connected to Self & Others

  • Not Feeling Triggered when Reminded of Traumas or Disturbing Events

  • Live in the Present Moment

 

Brainspotting Therapy

Brainspotting is another trauma method to help re-process trauma in the subcortical brain by locating a focused eye position. It works by identifying, processing, and releasing core neuro-physiological origins of emotional and physical pain and coping mechanisms related with PTSD or trauma. Brainspotting accesses the area deep within the brain and body to help re-process trauma.

Brainspotting can help with the following and more :

  • Anxiety or Panic

  • Depression

  • PTSD + Complex-PTSD

  • Chronic Pain

  • Childhood Attachment Disruptions

  • Childhood Abuse

  • Relationship Abuse or Violence

“Trauma is a psychic wound that hardens you psychologically that then interferes with your ability to grow and develop. It pains you and now you’re acting out of pain. It induces fear and now you’re acting out of fear. So without knowing it, your whole life is regulated by fear and pain that you’re trying to escape from in various ways. Trauma is not what happens to you, it’s what happens inside you as a result of what happened to you.”

~ Dr. Gabor Maté, MD (author of The Myth of Normal, In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts, Scattered Minds, & more)

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