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EMDR Therapy in Los Angeles, CA
About EMDR Therapy
What is EMDR?
EMDR is a powerful trauma-informed mind-body approach that helps you work through past painful experiences. It's different from regular talk therapy and does not require recounting all the details of your past. If you're ready to embark on a healing journey towards more calm, power, and ease, EMDR can help.
EMDR taps into our inherent capacity to heal.
EMDR therapy is based on the idea that the body/mind has a natural healing capacity. EMDR works well for clients who want relief from painful life experiences - whether those experiences are recent incidents or older traumas from your childhood. Emotionally charged memories become less charged and less painful after reprocessing through EMDR.
EMDR can be helpful for:
- Anxiety and Stress
- Complex Trauma
- Patterns of Perfectionism
- Worry and Procrastination
- Thoughts of I'm not Good Enough, I'm not Lovable, or I'm bad
- Attachment issues in adulthood
- Difficult pasts/Difficult childhoods
- Sexual abuse or molestation
- Single traumatic incidents
- Grief related to death of loved ones
- Grief related to breakups
- PTSD
Does it work?
EMDR is acknowledged as an effective treatment for trauma by the World Health Organization and the American Psychiatric Association.
What are sessions like?
We begin with your story, identifying your strengths, recognizing your triggers, and selecting specific memories or beliefs to work on. Although EMDR can work very fast, we can slow things down to ensure you feel comfortable with the process.
What is an EMDR Intensive?
EMDR Intensives provide several hours of EMDR therapy back to back. We offer EMDR Intensives that are 2 to 3 hours long. Intensives are provided in-office on Fridays in Atwater Village in Los Angeles.
EMDR Intensives are ideal for individuals who prefer a short-term treatment due to their busy lifestyle or general time constraints. EMDR Intensives are also a good option for clients who wish to supplement their regular talk therapy with focused EMDR treatment on specific memories or specific issues.
Watch a video of an EMDR session
Feel free to view this virtual EMDR therapy session demonstrated by two therapists, Jamie Marich and Mark Brayne:
What does EMDR stand for?
EMDR stands for Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing - but you won't have to remember that!