If you live in Plano, Texas and are seeking pyschological treatment, including EMDR counseling, then CompassionWorks your best option.  As an EMDR Certified and an approved consultant for other therapists, we provide the innovative use ...

If you live in McKinney, Texas and are seeking EMDR, then CompassionWorks is the best place to get that type of counseling.  As an EMDR Certified and an approved consultant for other therapists, we provide the innovative use of the best ...

LIFE TRAUMA INVENTORY

 

1.  Have you ever been in a serious disaster (for example, an earthquake, hurricane, large fire, explosion)	__Yes __No
2.  Have you ever seen a serious accident (for example, a bad car wreck or an on-the-job accident)	__Yes __No

I haven't spent much of my life looking at cartoons but I have heard that they can have a deeper message.  In this case, I think it does.  We all have a dark side and while it is easy to 'project' this onto others, consider this for the ...

This is a training video I did for my Grandson Braylon on how to skip rocks when on vacation on the Puget Sound, Aug 2011...

(From Wired For Joy by Laurel Melin)

Brain State	Use This Tool	Effect
1. Feeling Great!	Sanctuary Tool	Celebrate 1
2. Feeling Good	Feelings Check Tool	Get to 1
3. A Little Stressed	Emotional Housecleaning Tool	Get to 1
4. Definitely Stressed	Cycle ...

One of the tasks in EMDR therapy is to make a list of the ten most highly charged emotional things that have happened to you.  Usually, this would be over your lifetime; however, this could also be for a recent trauma or event that would have several different aspects to it. 

We do this to help identify targets upon which to do the EMDR processing.

• Think of times when you were emotionally upset.
• Something unfair, threatenting or life-threatening was done to you or someone close to you.
• You witnessesed or experienced an emotionally charged event.

Take it easy on yourself when doing it. 

Notice how difficult it is to start it. 

Notice feelings that arise while doing it.

Notice that these things all have an

Jordan Shafer, MS, LPC, EMDR Certfied Therapist and EMDRIA Approved Consultant shares some ideas about using EMDR with couples. It could be used in conjunction with the regular martial counseling in whatever style or mode it is being done. The EMDR processing resolves and integrates the emotional memories that are stored in the mid-brain, when that happens each member of the couple is better able to tolerate inevitable emotional discomfort.