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    Why I use EMDR

    April 24, 2018

    EMDR is fast, effective, and long lasting. After using EMDR with clients, and gaining more and more training along the way, it has become my preferred method of therapy. It is the psychological theory of practice that I ascribe to.

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    Why I use EMDR

    April 24, 2018

    EMDR is fast, effective, and long lasting. After using EMDR with clients, and gaining more and more training along the way, it has become my preferred method of therapy. It is the psychological theory of practice that I ascribe to.

    Filed Under: EMDR Tagged With: core beliefs, counseling, EMDR, post traumatic stress

    Trauma and your body: Simplified

    April 12, 2018

    Our brains are divided: left side, right side. The left brain is logical, mathematical, the organizer, and the language side. I like to think of my left brain as a filing cabinet. I think of the right side of the brain like the bouncer outside of an exclusive nightclub. The right side of the brain is older and developed before the left side. The right brain is where you process emotions, color, and movement. When danger is near you “feel it” in the right side before the left can put words to it.  Anything that overwhelms the body is trauma.

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    Trauma and your body: Simplified

    April 12, 2018

    Our brains are divided: left side, right side. The left brain is logical, mathematical, the organizer, and the language side. I like to think of my left brain as a filing cabinet. I think of the right side of the brain like the bouncer outside of an exclusive nightclub. The right side of the brain is older and developed before the left side. The right brain is where you process emotions, color, and movement. When danger is near you “feel it” in the right side before the left can put words to it.  Anything that overwhelms the body is trauma.

    Filed Under: EMDR, Uncategorized Tagged With: EMDR, left brain, right brain, trauma

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