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Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR)
“The goal of EMDR Treatment is to rapidly metabolize the dysfunctional residue from the past and transform it into something useful.”
– Francine Shapiro. Founder of EMDR therapy.
EMDR therapy is designed to resolve unprocessed traumatic memories in the brain. Unlike other therapies, it does not require talking in detail about a distressing issue or
completing homework between sessions. Rather than focusing on changing the emotions, thoughts, or behaviors resulting from the distressing issue, the focus in on allowing the brain to resume its natural healing process. For many clients, EMDR therapy can be completed in fewer sessions than other psychotherapies.
While our brains process and resolve many stressful events normally, trauma can sometimes cause this process to become stalled. The distress remains trapped by our survival instincts - our fight, flight, or freeze response, often resulting in feeling overwhelming distress or as if you are stuck “frozen in time” rather than healing. EMDR therapy helps jumpstart the brain's natural processing, allowing these memories to be effectively digested so that you can remember the experience without triggering the original distress or survival response.
EMDR uses guided "bilateral stimulation"—such as side-to-side eye movements—to help the brain safely reprocess traumatic memories, reducing their emotional intensity and vividness.
What does EMDR treat?
Beyond trauma, research shows EMDR is highly effective for anxiety, depression, OCD, chronic pain, and addiction.Deep Brain Reorienting (DBR)
DBR is a structured, body-based therapy designed to help people process trauma without needing to relive the full traumatic event. Rather than focusing primarily on thoughts, beliefs, or detailed memories, DBR works with the brainstem and midbrain—the parts of the brain that respond first to threat, shock, or disruptions in attachment. DBR aims to access the core of a traumatic experience by following the brain's original physiological sequence of responding to danger.
During therapy, clients are gently guided to notice subtle physical sensations and orienting responses—such as muscle tension around the eyes, neck, and forehead—that arise before conscious awareness of threat. By attending to these early bodily responses, the brain can process and resolve trauma at a foundational level without feeling overwhelming or requiring detailed retelling of the traumatic event. Using this "bottom-up" approach, DBR helps strengthen the connection between the body and nervous system, reduce distress and exaggerated startle responses, and promote greater emotional regulation and nervous system stability, while minimizing the risk of emotional flooding.
Internal Family Systems (IFS)
IFS views the mind as naturally made up of multiple subpersonalities, or “parts,” each with its own thoughts, feelings, and roles. These parts are not separate personalities but interconnected aspects of the self that work together within an internal system. IFS offers a fundamentally non-pathologizing approach to mental health. Rather than viewing symptoms as problems to eliminate, it understands them as protective responses—parts of the system doing the best they can with the resources and experiences available to them. By helping clients relate to their inner experiences with curiosity, compassion, and respect, IFS reduces internal conflict, strengthens self-leadership, and fosters greater emotional resilience and empowerment. It has been shown to be effective in treating trauma, anxiety, depression, and relationship difficulties by promoting understanding and harmony within the internal system rather than suppressing or eliminating parts.
IFS might be a good fit if you: • Notice strong inner critics, perfectionism, or shame • Find yourself swinging between over-control and “I don’t care anymore” • Have trauma or chronic stress that shows up in your body and relationships • Feel like different parts of you want opposite things (connection vs. isolation, visibility vs. hiding, rest vs. overwork) • Want an approach that respects your protective strategies instead of pathologizing them.
IFS can usually be integrated with other approaches, too — like EMDR, CBT, DBT skills, or somatic work. Many therapists blend them thoughtfully, especially for complex trauma and neurodivergent clients.
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