EMDR Therapy

Have You Heard About How Effective EMDR Therapy Can Be?

• Have you been in therapy before, but didn’t see the results you were hoping for?
• Do you have a sense that past trauma is impacting your emotions in the present?
• Is past trauma impacting your family, professional, or romantic relationships?

When traumatic experiences go largely untreated without the help of a trained EMDR therapist, we tend to believe that the impact of that trauma on our emotions is normal and just part of who we are now.

Untreated Past Trauma Can Feel Like There Is Something Inherently “Wrong” With You; EMDR Therapy Can Help

At Quantum, our holistic therapists prefer to focus on what happened to you, rather than what is “wrong” with you. Society, cultural, and family messaging is so quick to judge and shame rather than try to understand that our emotional capacity is just a product of past experiences. The holistic counselors at Quantum also prefer to frame therapy as oftentimes more “unlearning” old stories and habits rather than learning something new.

EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing) therapy is largely viewed today as the gold standard to treat specific underlying trauma and PTSD (post-traumatic stress disorder), especially for folks who have had prior therapy without seeing results. Research studying EMDR has found it to be tremendously effective in treating everything from anxiety, depression, bipolar disorder and borderline-personality disorder (BPD) to chronic pain and underlying root-cause childhood trauma or trauma occurring during the adult years.

EMDR therapy supports individuals like yourself in processing recent or old traumatic memories which may be impacting you emotionally, physically, or in relationships. Fears of abandonment, anxiety, anger, and shutting down are all possible clues that EMDR counseling may be right for you. While it may seem strange, cutting edge neuroscience has found that a combination of somatic therapy, talk therapy, and eye movements can allow for overwhelming memories and associated emotions to be reprocessed and repaired through repetition with a trained therapist. The holistic EMDR therapists at Quantum like to think of these traumatic memories similar to a computer virus; a corrupted “file” that we have to locate, repair, and file away again so that it doesn’t impact the larger system’s functioning within you.

EMDR Works With The Connection Between The Body And Mind

The impacts of trauma aren’t just memories, thoughts, and feelings; the latest scientific evidence tells us that trauma is also very much held in the body. This can result in muscle tension, stomach and digestion issues, trouble sleeping, migraines and other forms of physical pain, and even greater susceptibility to illness. Many individuals find that somatic, body-based therapy is a necessary and helpful strategy to couple with talk therapy models such as CBT or DBT. At Quantum, our holistic EMDR approach aims to address both the mental and physical symptoms of trauma for true, lasting healing.

Our bodies are incredible organisms that are first and foremost designed for safety and survival. This is why stress can impact us in so many ways; it’s the body’s way of getting our attention and trying to prevent a past trauma from reoccurring. Increased heart rate, physical pain or fibromyalgia, and even gastrointestinal issue symptoms such as ulcerative colitis (UC) and irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) can be greatly exacerbated by stress and other trauma or PTSD responses. EMDR has been known to help significantly relieve a whole host of mental health, as well as physical health issues.

When trauma occurs in early childhood in particular, it sticks with us as we grow and develop physically and mentally. Sometimes we can spend so many years not addressing the true root of the trauma that occurred in our early childhood that we don’t even realize how much past trauma shows up in our daily life. Many folks who call us aren’t quite sure where to begin in learning about EMDR therapy, but recognize patterns of friends, family, romantic partners, or coworkers pointing out emotional and behavioral concerns. For other clients, having physical pain expired with western medicine leads to constant dead ends until they realize that the answer may be one that requires holistic somatic therapy. The EMDR therapists at Quantum are judgment and stigma free and will meet you right where you presently are in order to guide you toward healing at a speed that feels totally comfortable for you.