EMDR Psychotherapy at Monarch
Helping you overcome trauma for over 10 years.
Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) is a structured, evidence-based psychotherapy that helps individuals process distressing memories and experiences, leading to reduced emotional reactivity and improved mental well-being. Originally developed as a treatment for PTSD, EMDR has proven effective for a wide range of conditions including complex trauma, anxiety & depression, addictions & behavioral challenges, physical & stress related symptoms, as well as dissociative & emotional dysregulation.
How EMDR Helps with PTSD & Other Conditions
PTSD & Trauma
EMDR effectively treats PTSD by helping the brain reprocess traumatic memories, reducing their emotional intensity and distress. Through bilateral stimulation, it desensitizes the brain’s response to trauma, replaces negative self-beliefs, regulates the nervous system, and promotes emotional integration, leading to lasting relief from PTSD symptoms.
Anxiety & Depression
EMDR helps reduce anxiety and depression by targeting and reprocessing past experiences that contribute to distress, allowing the brain to replace irrational fears and negative thought patterns with more adaptive responses. By addressing the root causes of emotional pain, EMDR promotes long-term healing, improved mood regulation, and a greater sense of well-being.
Addictions & Behavioral Challenges
By reprocessing traumatic memories that drive addictive behaviors, EMDR helps individuals gain control over compulsions and cravings. It can also address underlying emotional pain that fuels addiction.
Addictions & Behavioral Challenges
By reprocessing traumatic memories that drive addictive behaviors, EMDR helps individuals gain control over compulsions and cravings. It can also address underlying emotional pain that fuels addiction.
Dissociative Symptoms & Emotional Dysregulation
EMDR can improve emotional regulation by helping individuals process fragmented or overwhelming memories safely. It supports reintegration of dissociated parts of the self, fostering a sense of stability.
How does EMDR Work?
EMDR therapy is an integrative psychotherapy and uses a technique called bilateral stimulation to repeatedly activate opposite sides of the brain. Therapists often use eye movements to facilitate the bilateral stimulation. These eye movements mimic the period of sleep referred to as rapid eye movement or REM sleep, and this portion of sleep is frequently considered to be the time when the mind processes the recent events in the person’s life.
EMDR seems to help the brain reprocess the trapped memories is such a way that normal information processing is resumed. Therapists often use EMDR to help clients uncover and process beliefs that developed as the result of relational traumas, or childhood abuse and/or neglect. For a more detailed explanation please visit EMDR Institute, Inc.
Please note, Monarch Counseling is not currently accepting new Individual Therapy or EMDR Clients.