More and more people across the country are talking about EMDR therapy, a cutting edge treatment for trauma. People with PTSD (Post Traumatic Stress Disorder) can struggle with the effects for years, even while being treated through traditional counseling. EMDR provides unique solutions to this severe program. We’re excited to offer this service to our clients at Healing Paths, Inc. here in Utah.
YOUR PATH TO FREEDOM WITH EMDR TREATMENT
It’s not uncommon to battle intrusive negative thoughts, feelings that seem to come out of nowhere. You may experience the occasional flashback to a situation or event that feels charged with negative emotion. It makes complete sense that we would think about this traumatic event or be impacted by it in the immediate aftermath of the memory.
Sometimes months, years, and decades go by, and the intensity of the memory, the overwhelming nature of the emotion, or the disruption to your life doesn’t lessen. That may be a sign that those incidents were traumatic–meaning they were so big that your body and brain were not ready to adequately cope with them. You are right to be concerned and maybe even hopeless … until now.
Trauma is Treatable
Trauma means something more significant than we were ready to deal with has occurred. The brain does not store these unusual experiences like traditional events.
Do You Offer Remote Virtual Options for EMDR Therapy?
Yes. We can support you in your recovery using a HIPAA compliant telehealth platform, which means you can meet privately with an EMDR treatment expert. We also have therapy groups with people from all over the country from the convenience of your home. If you’re interested sign up below.
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For example, like the bowl of cereal you ate for breakfast, which starts with getting milk out of the fridge, pouring cereal into a bowl, then adding milk, eating with a spoon, and cleaning up at the sink follows a logical path.
There is a clear beginning, middle, and end!
The brain stores traumatic memories without that typical sequence of events. It saves them in the brain in a way that causes a flashback.
Flashbacks
Flashbacks are intense feelings of fear of hopelessness. These experiences can dramatically affect our lives. Someone going through a flashback can feel: “There must be something wrong with me!” But when we understand how trauma works, we realize our brain is functioning exactly the way it should.
Healing from Trauma Is 100% Possible with EMDR Therapy in Utah
The mind stores traumatic memories as frozen fragments of memory. You may remember random images of what you experienced, thoughts unrelated to what you are focusing on, emotions that come out of nowhere, or unpleasant sensations in your body pop up and throw you off.
These flashbacks are fragments of the memory appearing as you initially experienced them–or they seem frozen in the time that they happened to you. With traumatic memory, the nervous system is not able to update or adapt to what happened in the past.
Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) Therapy is the first clinically proven approach to treating traumatic memory and its impacts. The process replicates the brain’s natural way of processing information and healing.
Unlike exposure therapies, where you seek healing through remembering events in such a vivid manner, they don’t hurt anymore, EMDR helps you to revisit the past without reliving it.
As you heal with EMDR, you will find your brain can keep and learn from what was useful about the traumatic experience, and it will be able to let go of the rest, giving you your life back.
What Sets Us Apart from Other EMDR Clinics in Utah
A lot of therapy clinics are now offering this treatment option. It’s becoming a pretty standard therapy. But a lot of times, this treatment doesn’t work for clients. How come? In our experience as trained EMDR therapists, it’s crucial to have a relationship with the client first before we start this treatment. We don’t do EMDR on day one of working with a new client.
We believe all therapy, whether we are doing traditional counseling or these specialized modalities, like EMDR or neurofeedback, work best on the foundation of a strong relationship between the therapist and client.
CAN EMDR TREATMENT HELP YOU?
EMDR Therapy has helped hundreds of thousands of people. Call now for your free 30-minute phone consultation with one of our Utah therapists trained in this cutting edge mental health service. You deserve to have a life fully secure in the present, free from the pain of the past.