EMDR
(Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing)
Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) therapy can help your children, youth, and adults to understand how the past influences the present, heal from their past traumas, and allow them to move forward. Dr. Crystal Dittrick at CARE Psychology is a Certified EMDR Therapist.
What is it?
EMDR therapy is an integrative, evidence-based therapy approach that uses our understandings of the brain and memory networks. EMDR uses dual attention stimulation to help lessen the power of emotionally charged memories that can come with past traumatic events. EMDR helps the brain to process these memories and resume its natural healing process.
EMDR therapy is designed to heal and resolve unprocessed troubling, scary, frightening, or traumatic memories that may get stuck in the minds of children, youth, and adults. Since these memories can influence how they think, feel, act, and relate to others, the goal is to provide them with the adaptive skills they need to deal with and process these scary memories and reframe how they think and feel about them.
EMDR MAY BE USED TO ADDRESS A VARIETY OF TOPICS AND CONCERNS INCLUDING:
Anxiety and Worry
Bullying
Depression and Sadness
Dissociative Disorders
Eating Disorders
Grief and Loss
Obsessive Compulsive Disorder
Pain
Panic
Performance Anxiety
Personality Disorders
Phobias
Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder
Relationships and Interpersonal Conflict
Self-injury
Sleep Disturbance
Stress-related issues
Substance Abuse and Addictions
Trauma
Violence and Abuse