EMDR Therapy
EMDR uses bilateral stimulation to help the brain reprocess stored traumatic memories — the ones that still activate your nervous system, even when your mind believes you’ve moved on. Through this gentle stimulation, the brain begins to update old experiences, easing the grip of past pain so they no longer create overwhelm, shutdown, or fear. It can help parts of you that have felt frozen in time move and breathe again. The body remembers what the mind has tried to carry alone.
The eyes are a gateway — not just to the world, but to the body’s memory and the nervous system itself. Their natural movements help integrate experiences, guiding the brain in a way that lets the body release tension and stored trauma gently. In this sense, the eyes become another form of bodywork: subtle, embodied, and deeply connective. They bridge mind and body, letting what is felt but unspoken shift and move safely. Trauma doesn’t just live in thoughts or memories — it can settle into the nervous system — shaping tension, reactions, and protective patterns over time. The mind can understand, analyze, make sense of it. But the body holds the tension, the patterns, the instinctual responses that once helped you get through.
EMDR works with your brain’s natural capacity to integrate experiences. When paired with somatic awareness, it invites both body and mind to participate in the healing process — carefully, safely, and respectfully without overriding your natural pace. Somatic therapy works directly with your autonomic nervous system — the part of you that governs fight, flight, freeze, fawn, and rest.
This EMDR follows the pace your nervous system chooses, listening, partnering, and honoring exactly what you are ready for. In our work together, we move slowly and with curiosity — tracking sensations, breath, small movements and subtle impulses. These cues reveal what your system is holding, what it’s protecting, what it may still need, and what may be ready to soften.
What This Work Can Offer Through EMDR, many people notice shifts from:
The eyes are a gateway — not just to the world, but to the body’s memory and the nervous system itself. Their natural movements help integrate experiences, guiding the brain in a way that lets the body release tension and stored trauma gently. In this sense, the eyes become another form of bodywork: subtle, embodied, and deeply connective. They bridge mind and body, letting what is felt but unspoken shift and move safely. Trauma doesn’t just live in thoughts or memories — it can settle into the nervous system — shaping tension, reactions, and protective patterns over time. The mind can understand, analyze, make sense of it. But the body holds the tension, the patterns, the instinctual responses that once helped you get through.
EMDR works with your brain’s natural capacity to integrate experiences. When paired with somatic awareness, it invites both body and mind to participate in the healing process — carefully, safely, and respectfully without overriding your natural pace. Somatic therapy works directly with your autonomic nervous system — the part of you that governs fight, flight, freeze, fawn, and rest.
This EMDR follows the pace your nervous system chooses, listening, partnering, and honoring exactly what you are ready for. In our work together, we move slowly and with curiosity — tracking sensations, breath, small movements and subtle impulses. These cues reveal what your system is holding, what it’s protecting, what it may still need, and what may be ready to soften.
What This Work Can Offer Through EMDR, many people notice shifts from:
- overwhelm → clarity
- stuckness → flow
- fear → safety
- fragmentation → wholeness
- Feel more grounded and anchored
- Rebuild trust in yourself and your inner signals
In our work together, you may begin to:
- Feel less reactive to past experiences
- Soften long-held patterns of anxiety, avoidance, or shutdown
- Develop more internal space around difficult memories
- Reconnect with parts of yourself that have been protective or dormant
- Trust your body and mind to move through emotional terrain with more ease
EMDR can be a powerful, stabilizing experience when held gently and at the right pace, guiding your nervous system toward ease, spaciousness, and gentle liberation — not through force, but through attuned, steady support.
Allow your body to update the past