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Individual Counseling

In an individual counseling session, we work one-on-one to identify and work towards your goals. Sometimes healing is painful, and it sucks to face the past - in the same way sometimes exercise leads to soreness the next day. But you know that pain is helping you grow, and eventually it fades. It’s the same in therapy. We face what’s hard in order to learn and move forward.

Read below to learn about my favorite way to help people heal from difficult experiences!

  • Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) Therapy is a unique and integrative therapy that has been extensively researched.

    We’ve all heard of REM sleep, the period of sleep believed to be when our brain processes recent life events. During this stage a person’s eyes move back and forth rapidly, which is thought to be a mechanism for the brain processing. During an EMDR reprocessing session, the therapist directs similar eye movements or uses handheld equipment (‘tappers’ and lightbars) while having the client focus on a negative memory/belief to recreate this healing process.

    Learn even more and watch a video at https://www.emdria.org/about-emdr-therapy/

  • No! While EMDR is most well know as a form of treatment for PTSD (post traumatic stress disorder), it’s also used to help treat the symptoms and challenges associated with:

    • Anxiety, panic attacks, and phobias

    • Chronic illness and medical issues

    • Childhood abuse and neglect

    • Depression

    • Difficult/stressful life events you can’t get past

    • Dissociative disorders

    • Eating Disorders

    • Grief and loss

    • Performance Anxiety

    • Sleep disturbances

    • Violence and assault

  • I am an EMDR Certified Therapist and continue to pursue advanced trainings because of how much I believe in it. I see time and time again how quickly it gets to the root of the issue and helps people heal in ways they never thought were possible. It has the power to go beyond the capabilities of traditional talk therapy because it utilizes the brain’s natural mechanism for processing and healing - simply talking cannot do that.

    EMDR treatment can often be completed in fewer sessions than talk therapy because of this very reason. It doesn’t require you to talk for hours and hours about what happened.

  • I’m glad you asked! While EMDR can be done in traditional weekly 50 minute sessions, sometimes it can feel like you are ‘dragging it out’. To help speed the process up, I offer EMDR Intensives.

    In an EMDR intensive, you have the option of working in a 3 or 6 hour block, for just one day or multiple days. This allows you to take more control of the process, address the issues, and find healing more quickly.

    Ask me specifically what this can look like for you!