EMDR Counseling Therapy Services
How EMDR Counseling Works Using EMDR Counseling with Anger
EMDR counseling is a type of therapy that we use to help people get past whatever is in their way of having a great life. Like other psychotherapies, we do talk about what is happening in your life about what-is-working and what-is-not working, we explore practical solutions and we go one step further. By using EMDR processing to work directly with your 'limbic' brain, we let your brain change the way emotional information is stored. Because new neuro-networks are getting linked-up during the EMDR processing, the mind becomes more open in its ability to find creative solutions to what seemed like unsolveable situations. In addition, because of reduced anxiety, which is due to the emotional desensitization related to the EMDR processing, life, including relationships, starts to get better.
With EMDR counseling, we re-visit unpleasant experiences, and we awaken thoughts, images, body sensations and negative beliefs about the self. As we do that, we use 'bilateral stimulation' (eye-movements, sound or tapping) to let the mind figure out its own way to get resolution with bad feelings, negative thoughts and uncomfortable body sensations.
Everyday, we see people who are open to the great personal advantages gained from becoming more emotionally mature and more relaxed as they get greater mental clarity. In just a few EMDR therapy sessions (which are done after an intake and history gathering) our clients begin to realize the following benefits:
Stop feeling overwhelmed
Panic and anxiety attacks stop
Relationships improve
Worry and excessive thinking ends
Depression lifts
Sleep better
Chronic pain eases
Healing from surgeries or physical injuries is greatly improves
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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.
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