Are you experiencing any of the following in your life?

TRAUMA AND THE SYMPTOMS ABOVE:

Many of us are unaware that nagging feelings of unexplained anxiety, apathy, depression, anger and physical symptoms such as headaches and body pain, stem from traumatic experiences. It all beings with trauma. Everyone experiences trauma. It is part of our human nature. Trauma is the root cause of where our physical, mental and emotional ailments originate from. During a traumatic event, neurobiological changes happen in our brain. Due to these changes, trauma can slowly erode our physical, mental, emotional and spiritual health as we move forward. Given the brain changes that happen during a traumatic incident, trauma essentially keeps us stuck in our past and in our memory without our awareness. It leaves us unable to experience life without implicit or explicit memory which is encoded in our body and mind. Overtime, these upsetting memories manifest into symptoms such as: anxiety, depression, fear, shame, rumination, low self-esteem, sleeping problems, chronic pain, flash backs, abrupt mood swings, trouble trusting others, or co-dependency. Research on EMDR, along with other experiential models of therapy, have proven to reduce and even eliminate symptoms associated with trauma. You do not have to bear this burden of upsetting experiences in your body, mind and soul. YOU can heal from your past. YOU can live for the present. YOU can transform your life. Healing IS possible. 

EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing) is a psychotherapy that enables people to heal from the symptoms and emotional distress that are the result of disturbing life experiences.  Repeated studies show that by using EMDR therapy people can experience the benefits of psychotherapy that once took years to make a difference. It is widely assumed that severe emotional pain requires a long time to heal.  EMDR therapy shows that the mind can in fact heal from psychological trauma much as the body recovers from physical trauma.  When you cut your hand, your body works to close the wound.  If a foreign object or repeated injury irritates the wound, it festers and causes pain.  Once the block is removed, healing resumes.  EMDR therapy demonstrates that a similar sequence of events occurs with mental processes.  The brain’s information processing system naturally moves toward mental health.  If the system is blocked or imbalanced by the impact of a disturbing event, the emotional wound festers and can cause intense suffering.  Once the block is removed, healing resumes.  Using the detailed protocols and procedures learned in EMDR therapy training sessions, clinicians help clients activate their natural healing processes.

EMDR therapy is an eight-phase treatment.  Eye movements (or other bilateral stimulation) are used during one part of the session.  After the clinician has determined which memory to target first, he asks the client to hold different aspects of that event or thought in mind and to use his eyes to track the therapist’s hand as it moves back and forth across the client’s field of vision.  As this happens, for reasons believed by a Harvard researcher to be connected with the biological mechanisms involved in Rapid Eye Movement (REM) sleep, internal associations arise and the clients begin to process the memory and disturbing feelings. In successful EMDR therapy, the meaning of painful events is transformed on an emotional level.  For instance, a rape victim shifts from feeling horror and self-disgust to holding the firm belief that, “I survived it and I am strong.”  Unlike talk therapy, the insights clients gain in EMDR therapy result not so much from clinician interpretation, but from the client’s own accelerated intellectual and emotional processes.  The net effect is that clients conclude EMDR therapy feeling empowered by the very experiences that once debased them.  Their wounds have not just closed, they have transformed. As a natural outcome of the EMDR therapeutic process, the clients’ thoughts, feelings and behaviour are all robust indicators of emotional health and resolution—all without speaking in detail or doing homework used in other therapies. (https://www.emdr.com/what-is-emdr/)