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EMDR: Eye movement desensitization and reprocessing

An embodied approach to healing that aligns with your created nature to heal at the root of your pain in mind, body, and spirit.

EMDR therapy can help you feel safe, connected, and whole in mind, body, and spirit.

EMDR is an evidence-based method that helps reconnect the brain and body by feeling through and releasing out various places the brain is stuck in cycles of distress and increasing your symptoms of anxiety.

  • The whole-person approach of EMDR works to help the brain and body move through stuck places, cycles, memories, body sensations, and more to then create space for new positive experiences of safety and connection.

  • EMDR involves:

    • Identifying the places of distress and anxiety you are experiencing.

    • Creating moments of safety and connection that allow you to shift from distress to calm and rest.

    • Process the deep roots of sensations, memories, emotions, beliefs about yourself, and behaviors keeping you stuck in cycles of distress.

    • Feeling through and releasing your stuck points to create space for new connections and patterns of safety to develop.

    • Empowering you with lifelong adaptive skills to help you move forward alive, whole, and free.

    • Nervous system healing involves understanding and relearning what it feels like to house rest, love, and safety in the body again and again.

    • A regulated nervous system means you have the capacity to move in and out of stress while being able to return to your baseline and sense of self. In other words, you have the ability to shift back to what is true about you.

EMDR Video Explanation with Emily Rucker, M.A., LPC
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Is your nervous system asking for support?

What causes dysregulation and disconnection?

  • Anything that causes physical or emotional pain as you move forward in life can be experienced as nervous system dysregulation and disconnection.

  • Any experience that the system labels as “too much, too soon, or too fast.”

A woman with blonde hair smiling, sitting in a blue velvet chair, wearing a white polka dot blouse and gold jewelry. Emily Rucker M.A. LPC. Houston Texas. Alive and Whole Wellness. Christian Counseling. EMDR. Trauma. Anxiety.

WHY EMDR?

With EMDR you can…

  • Learn advanced resourcing and calming skills specific to the needs of your nervous system that help you come back to your created place of rest, security, and safety.

  • Break free from shame and strongholds (structures in your mind that control how you move through life) that are keeping you stuck in unhelpful patterns.

  • Widen your capacity to move through stress and come back to your sense of self with more ease.

  • Move through hard memories and parts of your story, allowing you to heal at the root of your pain. This gives way for wounds to become a part of your testimony as you move forward in life.

  • Identify, process, and learn how to move through autonomic nervous system signals that used to keep you weighed down and feeling stuck.

  • Connect with your whole being beyond talk therapy.

At the end of the day, I want you to know:

Whatever it is that you’re experiencing, there is room for healing.

A woman with blonde hair smiling and laughing, sitting on a blue velvet armchair, wearing a white polka dot blouse, gold jewelry, and black pants. Emily Rucker M.A. LPC. Houston Texas. Alive and Whole Wellness. Christian Counseling. EMDR. Trauma.

In our sessions together, we will…

Calm and regulate your nervous system response

Process and release out anxiety stored in your body

Reconnect your mind, body, and spirit

Change is possible.

Change is possible.

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Questions?

FAQs

  • EMDR helps identify the root of anxiety, shift the nervous system from a place of distress to rest, and helps relieve symptoms of anxiety by allowing the body to feel through unprocessed areas triggering anxiety and dysregulation.

  • EMDR is a good fit for you if:

    1. You want lasting calm and healing.

    2. You’ve tried talk therapy but your body needs more.

    3. You have distress, anxiety, and trauma stored in your body that needs to be released.

  • EMDR can be used with all ages and all client diagnoses. Anyone with anxiety, trauma, negative beliefs about themselves, or distressing experiences can benefit to name a few!

  • EMDR is a whole-person approach that can help your teen understand and heal from where shame, negative beliefs about themselves, distressing experiences, and big emotions have been keeping them stuck in dysregulation and unsure of themselves.

    1. History Taking

    2. Preparation

    3. Assessment

    4. Desensitization

    5. Installation

    6. Body Scan

    7. Closure

    8. Reevaluation

    *Everyone moves through the EMDR phases based on their individual nervous system response.

  • Great! Check out the links on my resources page for more clinical specifics on EMDR and how it is successful for anxiety and nervous system regulation. There you will find educational articles, videos, and more!